Former government employees are finding that perhaps the only thing harder than getting laid off from the federal government is staying that way.

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Federal agencies are rehiring and ordering back from leave some of the employees who were laid off in the weeks after President Donald Trump took office as they scramble to fill critical gaps in services left by the Department of Government Efficiency-led effort to shrink the federal workforce.

A court-ordered pause in May covered nearly two dozen federal agencies at different stages of executing President Trump’s directive for mass layoffs. The Supreme Court said the administration could proceed.

Federal employees in Maryland anxiously await the Supreme Court’s decision on whether the Trump administration will be allowed to proceed with firing thousands of federal government workers.

President Donald Trump's administration is moving to reclassify federal workers at two agencies in order to more easily fire them, Reuters reported Thursday. The efforts are reportedly taking ...

With the change, the Trump administration has also backed away from a signature effort to stay ahead of China in the A.I. race. The U.S. government had been concerned that the Chinese military could use A.I. chips to coordinate attacks and develop weapons and had also wanted to preserve the U.S. lead in developing A.I. systems.

But as the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency nix the federal workforce to shed government spending, many of the staffers in these programs have been dismissed.

Among Trump's wave of mass firings, Forest Service workers, many of whom helped fight fires. I spoke with USA TODAY White House reporter Zac Anderson to learn more about the potential impact.

The latest round of firings targets not just prosecutors but also support staff members who played a smaller role.

President Donald Trump has achieved significant victories in the Supreme Court during the first six months of his second term