Virginia’s governor has become a close ally of Trump and defended his plan to freeze federal spending as other officials reeled from changing guidance.

Officials with Veterans Affairs announced on Monday that the department had completed the "initial implementation" of President Donald Trump's executive order to end DEI programs, putting 60 employees on leave.

Democrats harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s plan to invoke a federal freeze on filling vacancies and adding jobs for non-clinical positions at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

White House officials said VA financial assistance programs do not violate rules banning diversity and inclusion efforts.

Trump's VA pick, former Rep. Doug Collins, said the VA may be trying to fill positions, but many of those vacancies have gone unfilled for weeks or longer.

Virginia Democrats raised alarms about the Trump order's potential effects. Gov. Glenn Youngkin said the president's freeze would not interrupt individual assistance, disaster relief or school and child care funding.

A Black Hawk military helicopter and an American Airlines plane collided near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump’s order requiring the federal government’s more than 2 million civilian employees to return in-person full time — or opt by next week to quit — will impact thousands who work on Long Island, particularly those who have been doing at least some work from home since the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump has fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws in the workplace, an unprecedented move aimed at implementing his crackdown on certain diversity and gender rights policies.

The actions prompted a tense standoff between the U.S. and Colombia after Colombia's president turned away deportation flights from the U.S. Trump then threatened tariffs as high as 25% against the South American nation, causing its leader to reverse course and accept deported migrants.

It means some open jobs at the Audie Murphy VA Hospital and military hospitals such as Wilford Hall and Brooke Army Medical Center will go unfilled.

President Donald Trump is offering buyouts with eight months of pay to all federal workers who don't wish to return to the office.