Federal agencies face Monday deadline to submit plans to move out of DC

Federal agencies face Monday deadline to submit plans to move out of DC

President Donald Trump’s administration set Monday, April 14, as the deadline for federal agencies to propose plans to further downsize their workforce and potentially relocate their offices to other, less costly, areas in the U.S. Related stories ‘A fire sale’: Federal real estate footprint shrinking in DC Local restaurants and hotels scramble to fill profit gap amid federal worker layoffs Supreme Court …

Move federal workers out West - Washington Examiner

The Department of Agriculture has announced plans to close its mammoth headquarters in Washington, lay off thousands of its nearly 100,000 employees, and relocate offices and many remaining workers to hubs across the country. The decision follows President Donald Trump’s executive order to transform “the Federal bureaucracy” by eliminating “waste, bloat, and insularity.” This should come as no surprise. In 2023, Trump promised that if reelected,…

You may never have heard of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, but will you miss it when it’s gone?

Another executive order, “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” is the latest effort by the President to reduce the size of the federal government. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, along with six other independent agencies targeted in this order, must reduce its operations and staff to the minimum ‘required by law.’ A recent news story about FMCS sheds some light on why this agency might have made the list. Federal…

D.C. Universities Are Helping Fired Federal Workers Find Their Footing

According to the latest data from CNN, over 120,000 federal employees have been fired since President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Jan. 20. In light of these […]

Prabowo's plan to evacuate Gazans to Indonesia has sparked pros and cons, and is in line with the relocation plan proposed by Donald Trump.

States vie for D.C.-area federal agencies as relocation plan deadline nears

State officials see an opportunity in the Trump administration’s push to move federal agencies out of the D.C. area, and they’re making their case to land them.