The job cuts are being imposed unilaterally, without the approval of Congress to shrink or overhaul federal agencies.

A federal judge on Friday ordered a temporary halt to the Trump administration’s attempts to slash jobs and dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The order, from a U.S. district judge in Washington,

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across public health and science agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.

The Trump administration on Thursday moved swiftly to fire thousands of workers and directed agency heads to terminate most trial and probationary staff — a move that could affect as many as 200,000 employees,

The Trump administration on Thursday intensified its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce, the nation's largest employer, by ordering agencies to lay off nearly all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil service protection — potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of workers.

A letter to Congress signals that President Donald Trump seeks to make it easier to purge federal workers and exert maximum control over the bureaucracy.

Thousands of employees were already let go as of Thursday, a number that is expected to skyrocket in the coming days.