The decision impacts workers at 20 federal agencies and follows a ruling by the Supreme Court on Tuesday to nullify a similar district court order.

Ex-CIOs agreed that political appointees can be valuable changemakers, but some cautioned against a blanket policy, politicization of the role.

The decision nullifies a Northern District of California ruling that ordered thousands of fired probationary employees to be placed back on the government payroll.

The two memos follow Trump’s decision to rescind the Biden administration’s executive order on AI and review its actions — but much appears similar.

The State Department can and should be a shining example of a well-run government agency — all it takes is the will to do so.

When combined with retirements and deferred resignation, HHS’s workforce is set to go from 82,000 to 62,000 full-time employees.

The Scale AI alum and veteran of the first Trump administration will serve as OSTP director.

The emergency application seeks a stay to an injunction ordering the reinstatement of “over 16,000 probationary employees” who were fired.

Under the executive order, agency heads are required to modify or rescind internal regulations that interfere with intra- or inter-agency sharing of unclassified data within 30 days.

Roughly 15,500 reinstatements were a direct result of the district court order, while roughly 6,000 workers were already reinstated, per court documents.