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Nobody is home at the IRS, leaving seven million American families waiting for their tax refunds

Civil Service Strong Fellows Julie Brinn Siegel and John Pierce detail painful realities faced by Americans due to the Trump-Vance administration's gutting of the IRS and career civil servants.

Coalition of Unions, Press Freedom Organizations, Editors and Journalists Win Major Victory As Judge Rules Kari Lake’s USAGM Appointment Illegal, Cancels Mass Firings at VOA

D.C. federal judge Royce Lamberth ruled that Kari Lake had illegally served as Acting CEO of the United States Agency for Global Media, the agency overseeing Voice of America.

Public Service Organizations and Unions File Updated Legal Challenge to Trump-Vance Administration Effort that Seeks to Make it Easier to Fire Civil Servants

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and a coalition of unions and labor federations today filed a consolidated and updated legal challenge to Schedule Policy/Career

The First Year Without USAID: Hunger, Disease, and Preventable Death

February 12, 2026

Civil Service Strong Fellows for National Security & Foreign Policy Ariana Berengaut and Anu Rajaraman analyze the impacts of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).