The agencies include the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury.

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SALT LAKE CITY — IRS workers in Ogden are trying to cope with the chaos of having their entire staff back in the office.

The agencies include the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office.

WASHINGTON ― Tens of thousands of federal government probationary workers fired in recent weeks as part of President Donald Trump's sweeping cuts to the federal workforce must be reinstated ...

WASHINGTON >> The Trump administration’s mass layoffs of federal workers have slowed the government’s ability to permit some ...

The IRS has issued more than 29.6 million individual income tax refunds through Feb. 21, up 2.3% from a year ago.

The cuts since mid-February have hit employees at agencies that play a crucial role in the process needed to issue permits ...

The Trump administration’s mass layoffs of federal workers have slowed the government’s ability to permit some new energy ...

The Internal Revenue Service’s burgeoning efforts to more closely inspect the taxes of some of the country’s richest people ...

The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took ...