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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kristin Brown |Melissa Quinn
Washington — The Office of Personnel Management issued revised guidance to federal agencies Tuesday regarding the firing of probationary workers amid President Trump's efforts to shrink the size of the government, informing department leaders that they do not have to take any "specific performance-based actions" regarding those employees.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kristin Brown |Melissa Quinn |Sara Cook |Jennifer Jacobs
Washington — Some federal workers received another email late Friday asking them to provide five bullet points of what they accomplished in the past week, sources confirmed to CBS News. The email shown to CBS News instructed federal workers to "please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets describing what you accomplished last week and cc your manager."It also indicated that such an edict would continue.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kristin Brown |Melissa Quinn
Washington — Some federal workers are expected to receive another email Saturday asking them to provide five bullet points of what they accomplished in the past week, sources familiar with the directive confirmed to CBS News. This time, the email is expected to come from individual federal agencies, not the Office of Personnel Management, as was the case with the email circulated to the federal workforce last week.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Kristin Brown |Caroline Linton
The federal offices in charge of personnel and budget are expected to issue a memo to government agencies to submit "reorganization plans" and prepare for large-scale firings, a source said. The Office of Management and Budget along with the Office of Personnel Management are expected to ask the agencies to submit these plans by March 13 and to prepare for a "reduction in force."The news of the memo was first reported by CNN.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Gabrielle Ake |Kristin Brown |Caitlin Yilek
Some agency heads react to Musk demand Washington — The office that asked federal workers to document five things they accomplished over the past week told executive branch officials on Monday that individual agencies can decide how to respond, despite a threat from Elon Musk that employees who refused could lose their jobs.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
cbsnews.com | Melissa Quinn |Richard Escobedo |Kristin Brown
Judge pauses Trump funding freeze Washington — The White House Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday walked back a memo that ordered a freeze on federal assistance, less than two days after the directive led to chaos and confusion around the country as to what programs would be impacted. The latest two-line memo from acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Matthew Vaeth states that the earlier directive is rescinded.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
cbsnews.com | Ed O'Keefe |Kristin Brown
A new Trump administration plan to send an alert to the federal government's roughly 2.3 million employees from a single email address launched this week and confused at least some of the rank and file, who were concerned it looked suspicious.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Kristin Brown |Kathryn Watson
Trump finalizing Cabinet picks President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, the White House said Monday. Before the election, Mr. Biden said he would attend, regardless of who won. Trump did not attend Mr. Biden's 2021 inauguration, which took place two weeks after Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol ahead of the certification of the election results.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Kathryn Watson |Kristin Brown
Hagerty on what Trump's victory means for foreign policy President Biden met Wednesday with the families of American hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza, as the Biden administration says it stands ready to work with the incoming Trump administration toward the common goal of securing their release.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Melissa Quinn |Olivia Rinaldi |Katrina Kaufman |Kristin Brown |Lucia Suarez Sang
Updated 2m ago Supreme Court denies GOP request to block counting of certain provisional ballots in battleground Pennsylvania The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to freeze a decision from Pennsylvania's highest court that required election officials to count provisional ballots cast by people whose mail ballots are invalid because they lacked mandatory secrecy envelopes.
