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1 week ago | myrtlebeachonline.com | Andrew Duehren |Eileen Sullivan |NYT Washington

WASHINGTON -- About 22,000 employees at the IRS have signed up for the Trump administration’s latest resignation offer, according to four people familiar with the matter, an exodus that could weaken the agency’s ability to collect taxes. The IRS had about 100,000 employees before President Donald Trump took office. Roughly 5,000 employees have resigned since January, and an additional 7,000 probationary employees were laid off, though those firings have been contested in court.

1 week ago | mahoningmatters.com | Edward Wong |Karoun Demirjian |NYT Washington

The Trump administration could cut nearly 50% of the State Department’s funding next fiscal year, according to an internal memo laying out a downsizing plan being given serious consideration by department leaders, said two U.S. officials. The plan was drawn up as the White House pressures agencies to make significant budget cuts.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine |NYT Washington

Last week, Elon Musk indicated for the first time that his Department of Government Efficiency was falling short of its goal. He previously said his powerful budget-cutting team could reduce the next fiscal year’s federal budget by $1 trillion, and do it by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Instead, in a Cabinet meeting Thursday, Musk said that he anticipated the group would save about $150 billion, 85% less than its objective.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Tim Balk |NYT Washington

The Trump administration appeared to deepen its standoff with a federal judge Saturday over the status of a man it wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison, ignoring orders to provide a plan to return him to the United States. A State Department official said in a two-page court filing that the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who had been living in Maryland before he was deported, was “alive and secure” in a terrorism confinement center in El Salvador.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Tim Balk |NYT Washington

The Trump administration said Friday that it had moved a portrait of former President Barack Obama in a White House hallway and replaced it with a pop-art painting of President Donald Trump pumping his fist after the assassination attempt last year on the campaign trail in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shuffling of decor is not uncommon at the White House, where portraits are rotated often.