The newly released requirements for agencies to move forward with mass cuts to the federal work force have employees even more on edge.

President Donald Trump's administration says federal agencies should begin planning to eliminate employee positions. The process is known as a reduction in force.

Federal workers are rushing to a little-known and understaffed office to try to save their jobs from President Donald Trump’s mass government layoffs, in hopes that it will be a bulwark against the president and Elon Musk as they push for more cuts.

Budget Director Russell Vought and Charles Ezell, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, wrote in a memo to the heads of these agencies that the federal government is "costly, inefficient,

US President Donald Trump convened the first official Cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday and ordered federal agencies to implement more large-scale layoffs.