There are plenty of reasons for state and local leaders to be unsure about the future. Not all of them are coming down from Washington.

Federal agencies are just eight days away from seeing their funding lapse and having to shutter their offices, though which employees will be sent home remains unknown. Typically, agencies publicly post their "contingency plans” in advance of a ...

Some federal workers received suggested templates of out-of-office emails saying they were furloughed because "Democrat Senators are blocking passage" of a funding bill.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) saw the biggest jump in public approval among a group of federal agencies in the past year, a new Gallup poll found. In the new Gallup poll, 42 percent of

Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.

In her ruling, the judge wrote that Musk’s public status as a “special government employee” - leading the Trump administration’s DOGE cost-cutting program - as well as the billionaire’s own public comments on his security clearance and personal life, outweighed these concerns.