A federal watchdog agency argued that the Trump administration’s firings of a handful of probationary federal workers — and perhaps many more — were likely illegal, recommending that the terminations be halted pending an investigation.

Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, recommended pausing the mass firings of some probationary federal employees.

A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do administration and elected officials keep relying on it?

Congressman Brendan Boyle, union leaders and federal workers gathered at Independence Hall in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood on Monday to protest the Trump Administration’s layoffs of federal employees.