Departing officials, including disabled veterans, defend themselves and thousands of fired federal colleagues’ work with defiant, indignant letters, creating a written record of a tumultuous time.

In a sign that not every Trump official is on the same page, leaders at the FBI and State Department instructed employees not to respond.

Democrats introduced a bill to help guard federal probationary workers if they were reinstated after DOGE firings. The Protect Our Probational Employees Act has gained bi-partisan support as agencies have begun rehiring workers who were terminated with DOGE cuts.

Republicans GOP leaders have joined liberals in a new bipartisan bill meant to assist thousands of federal workers dismissed by the federal job-sweeping spree of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),