Eileen Sullivan

Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights

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Trump Shrank Staffing of National Parks. See How Many Are Struggling.

Trump Shrank Staffing of National Parks. See How Many Are Struggling. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Federal Workers’ ‘Emotional Roller Coaster’: Fired, Rehired, Fired Again

Federal Workers’ ‘Emotional Roller Coaster’: Fired, Rehired, Fired Again www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...

More Federal Workers Are Flooding the Job Market, With Worsening Prospects

More Federal Workers Are Flooding the Job Market, With Worsening Prospects www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

Opinion | A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press

A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

With Painful Layoffs Ahead, Agencies Push Incentives to Quit Another round of “deferred resignation” offers is part of the Trump administration’s stepped-up effort to rapidly downsize the government.

With Painful Layoffs Ahead, Agencies Push Incentives to Quit www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

No Toilet Paper and No Privacy: Returning to the Office, Federal Workers Walk Into Chaos President Trump has described his new in-office requirement as a way to ensure workers are doing their jobs. He sees potentially leading more employees to quit as an added benefit.

No Toilet Paper and No Privacy: Returning to the Office, Federal Workers Walk Into Chaos www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

Reinstated, but Not Back to Work: Fired Workers Linger in ‘Limbo’ More than a dozen federal agencies have reinstated employees and immediately placed them on administrative leave, according to court filings.

Reinstated, but Not Back to Work: Fired Workers Linger in ‘Limbo’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

My colleague Adam Goldman, who abandoned Twitter/X but has not to date joined Bluesky, has posted on LinkedIn this memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi personally barring DOJ buildings from procuring paper straws www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Are You a Federal Worker? We Want To Hear From You. The Times would like to hear about your experience as a federal worker under the second Trump administration. We may reach out about your submission, but we will not publish any part of your response ...

Are You a Federal Worker? We Want To Hear From You. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

Trump Administration Forces Out More Senior Justice Dept. Officials The Trump administration targeted veteran career lawyers who managed pardon work, bankruptcy litigation and other legal issues in the latest wave of forced departures.

The Trump administration on Friday forced out a handful of senior Justice Department officials, further thinning the ranks of career officials who help guide the agency, according to several people familiar with the actions.

A protester holding a sign that says "Fund Don't Freeze" in front of a large crowd and the Washington Monument. Photo by Jason Andrew for The New York Times

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington on Friday for Stand Up for Science, a rally to protest the Trump administration’s drastic cuts to the federal work force and to federally funded science. nyti.ms/3DruZlu

More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut Together with recent firings and resignations, the new cuts could hamper the National Weather Service’s ability to produce lifesaving forecasts, scientists say.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, is set to lose another 1,000 workers under the Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal government.

Climate United Sues E.P.A. Over Frozen $20 Billion In a lawsuit, Climate United claims the E.P.A. is illegally withholding funds that have become a target of the Trump administration.

A multibillion dollar dispute between the Environmental Protection Agency and several nonprofit organizations escalated on Saturday when one group sued the EPA and Citibank, seeking access to a grant it had received during the Biden administration but have been frozen under President Trump.

C.D.C. Will Investigate Debunked Link Between Vaccines and Autism Dozens of studies have failed to find evidence of a link. The decision to re-examine the question comes as a measles outbreak, driven by low vaccination rates, widens in Texas.

The CDC is planning to conduct a large-scale study to re-examine whether there is a connection between vaccines and autism, federal officials said Friday. Dozens of scientific studies have failed to find evidence of a link.

Elon Musk Is Making Republicans Sweat and Giving Democrats a New Target His unusual governing arrangement with President Trump is opening Republicans up to being yoked politically to Mr. Musk, who polls show is broadly unpopular.

Elon Musk’s unusual governing arrangement with President Trump and signature slash-and-burn style has reverberated far beyond the Capitol, making even lawmakers from deep-red states begin to sweat.

Secret Service Shoots Armed Man Near the White House President Trump was in Florida at the time of the episode, during which a man held a gun and a confrontation ensued, the agency said.

The Secret Service shot a man near the White House early Sunday after an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement officers, the agency said in a statement. President Trump was not at the White House at the time.

The Populist vs. the Billionaire: Bannon, Musk and the Battle Within MAGA President Trump has made clear he wants to keep both men and their allies within his movement, but the tensions are growing.

The longstanding animus between Steve Bannon and Elon Musk encapsulates a key tension at the heart of the MAGA movement. It pits those like Bannon, who want Trump to carry out a more fully populist agenda, against ultrawealthy interests, epitomized by Musk, who occupy key positions in Trump’s orbit.

Two people walk through the dappled light of a courtyard in front of a brick building with a columned entrance, flanked on both sides by tall trees, on Harvard University’s campus. A headline reads: "Trump Pulled $400 Million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next." Photo by Adam Glanzman for The New York Times

The Trump Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University cast a shadow over at least nine other campuses worried they could be next. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...

Rubio and Trump Officials Clash With Elon Musk in an Explosive Meeting Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.

Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to attacks from the richest man in the world. Read an inside account of the explosive meeting where President Trump moved to rein in Elon Musk’s power.

Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veterans.

Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired as Elon Musk’s government-cutting project targets the Veterans Affairs Department. “Lots of people don’t understand how important these roles are,” a hospital administrator said.

Tribes and Students Sue Trump Administration Over Firings at Native Schools More than one quarter of the staff members at the only two federally run colleges for Native students were cut in February.

A group of Native American tribes and students is suing the Trump administration to reverse its recent firing of federal workers at Native schools that they said has severely lowered their quality of education.

A card reads: "These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration." A long list of words follows, including: biologically female; biologically male; BIPOC; Black; breastfeed + people; clean energy; climate crisis; climate science; commercial sex worker; community diversity; community equity; confirmation bias; cultural competence; cultural differences; cultural heritage; cultural sensitivity; culturally appropriate; culturally responsive; DEI; equity; feminism; genders.

Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You Asked, We Answered: How The Times Is Reporting on the Trump Administration Hundreds of readers asked about our coverage of the president. Times editors and reporters responded to some of the most common questions.

Hundreds of readers asked about how The New York Times is reporting on President Trump and his administration. Our editors and reporters responded to some of the most common questions.

Trump Live Updates: Markets Wobble as China Tariffs Deepen U.S. Trade War

President Trump is canceling 83% of the programs run by the USAID, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Monday. The remaining programs would be administered by the State Department. Follow live updates.

One student wears a face shield and mask and others wear face masks as they sit cross-legged and in rows during a meditation session. Text reads: "Enduring Images of a Global Crisis, 5 Years On." Photo by Adam Dean for The New York Times

New York Times photographers revisited their most enduring images of the coronavirus pandemic, five years after the virus became a global threat. These are the moments that stayed with them. nyti.ms/4bHmdfB

What We Know About the Month-Old Migrant Mission at Guantánamo Bay President Trump said the base would house as many as 30,000 migrants awaiting deportation. But construction of a tent city was halted weeks ago.

Fewer than 300 migrants have been sent to Guantanamo Bay and more than 1,000 personnel have been assigned to the thus-far $16m project. What we do and don't know about the Trump administration initiative. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

Trump, With More Honey Than Vinegar, Cements an Iron Grip on Republicans In his second term, President Trump is cultivating warm relationships with G.O.P. lawmakers — and using the implicit threat of ruining them if they stray — to keep them in line behind his agenda.

President Trump is cultivating warm relationships with GOP lawmakers in his second term — and using the implicit threat of ruining them if they stray — to keep them in line behind his agenda.

NEW: Sec. Marco Rubio invokes an obscure statute to have Trump administration deport Mahmoud Khalil, a legal US resident married to a US citizen who is 8 months pregnant. Judge issues a stay. Khalil was in pro-Palestinian rallies at Columbia. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

Inside Trump’s War on the I.R.S.: Dropped Audits and a Skeleton Staff President Trump is planning to gut the work force while trying to turn the I.R.S. into a more political agency.

President Trump is planning to gut the Internal Revenue Service’s work force while trying to turn it into a more political agency, preparing budget cuts and further layoffs that could ultimately force it to shed as much as 50% of its work force.