U.S. government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of thousands of people should get their jobs back.

A federal watchdog for government workers is throwing in the towel in his legal fight against President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire him. A day after a federal appeals court panel allowed Trump to proceed with his plan to remove Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger,

Jacob Soboroff, NBC News political and national correspondent, talks with former federal workers recently part of mass firings by Donald Trump, about their takeaways from Trump's address to a joint session of Congress and the facts about the federal workforce that Americans should understand.

Jacob Soboroff, NBC News political and national correspondent, talks with former federal workers who have recently lost their jobs to indiscriminate cuts by Elon Musk's DOGE, about the work they were doing and what Americans will lose as a consequence of Trump's cuts.

Federal workers are pushing back on President Donald Trump’s claims about the state of the country and the mass firing spree under his watch, warning it will undermine communities and leave people across the country with diminished access to the services that they rely on.

President Donald Trump warned federal workers that they would be fired if they oppose the policies of his administration. He also stated that the era of unelected bureaucrats is over, according to the broadcast of Trump's speech in the Congress.