For more than 10,000 federal employees in Connecticut, the first month of the Trump administration has brought chaos — and job losses.

A federal judge in Boston Wednesday is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with its federal worker buyout program for the moment.

The Trump administration sent a memo to heads of federal agencies and departments giving them a deadline to submit plans for large-scale cuts in the workforce.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday ordered federal agencies to undertake more large-scale layoffs of workers, while the president let downsizing czar Elon Musk take a star role at his first cabinet meeting and discuss his ambitious budget-cutting targets.

The Trump administration ordered thousands of employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development to clear out their offices by Friday, as the agency has been subject to some of the most drastic cuts in the federal downsizing spearheaded by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency—which indicated in recent days the the largest round of layoffs yet are forthcoming.

If there is one phrase that the public has in reaction to President Donald Trump’s war on waste, it would be that “it’s about time.” Promised since the Reagan years, little wasteful spending has ever been rooted out and eliminated,

WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump’s administration today directed federal agencies to prepare for more large-scale layoffs that would further thin the ranks of the U.S. civil service.