A U.S. agency on Tuesday halted the terminations of six federal government employees who U.S. President Donald Trump's administration targeted in its mass firings of probationary workers.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission terminated about a dozen probationary employees this week as President Donald Trump continues his bid to shrink the federal workforce.

The U.S. government's human resources agency is rushing to shut down and drastically shrink entire departments in what sources familiar with the actions say will serve as a template for a second wave of mass layoffs in the federal bureaucracy.

The Office of Special Counsel’s findings could have major implications for fired federal workers trying to get their jobs back.

A government watchdog special counsel who oversees federal workers' whistleblower reports said Monday his office is seeking to halt some of the Trump administration's mass firings of federal workers.

Several employees were fired from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Monday evening, as the Trump administration continued its broader efforts to shrink the federal workforce.

I n a new email to supporters, Donald Trump’s campaign is openly fundraising off the potential mass firing of federal employees, tying their fate to the whims of his donors. The

Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger says the mass terminations of federal workers appears "contrary to a reasonable reading of the law."