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.

To billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the Department of Government Efficiency, Karen Ortiz may just be one of many faceless bureaucrats representative of federal waste.

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),