Seven writers go in search of the essential public servant The role of the federal government is at the center of the national conversation. But who really is our government? What is it made of?

WASHINGTON – Some Congressional Democrats say they are open to shutting down the federal government in March over the Trump administration's moves to dismantle government programs and agencies.

Billionaire Elon Musk is categorized as a "special government employee" through his work with the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a cost-cutting initiative created by President Trump ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has confirmed that Elon Musk — the tech billionaire whom President Donald Trump tapped to lead a large-scale effort to cut government spending and ...

The system also contains data on government contractors in direct competition with Mr. Musk’s own companies. It was the latest troubling report of the administration’s interventions into ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the state government has launched an ambitious initiative to redevelop 500 government schools with state-of-the-art facilities, and the work has ...

The revolving door between Goldman Sachs and the US government may be slowing after decades of executives jumping between the bank and the federal government, sources told NYNext. “We are no ...

By Ethan Singer More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found, as federal agencies ...

The buyout offer has been met with "frustration and anger" inside the CIA. The Trump administration's offer to extend deferred resignations to members of the intelligence community as part of the ...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said it gave no orders to shut down government websites amid confusion over complying with a new Trump administration policy requiring agencies to scrub ...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is leading an all-out blitz on the federal government, attempting to drastically shrink it and eliminate any spending that might fall under the ...

President Joe Biden expanded government workplace DEI protections by signing a number of executive orders widening them to include a broader group of Americans, from pregnant people and military ...