One of President Trump’s first executive orders claims the power to fire, and hire, tens of thousands of career civil servants across the government. Astead W. Herndon, a national politics reporter and the host of the politics podcast “The Run-Up,” explains the order, which has drawn lawsuits from federal unions.

Dozens of suits have been filed that seek to stop some of President Trump’s executive orders. Here’s a brief rundown.

Judge Carl Nichols will temporarily block plans to put some 2,200 employees on paid leave and to recall nearly all agency workers posted abroad.

Some of those put on leave said they had only a minimal connection to diversity or equity efforts.

Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

The Trump administration’s effort to get federal workers to leave their posts could lead to an exodus of experienced employees, some warned.

Federal agencies have offered exits to millions of employees and tested the prowess of engineers — just like when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The similarities have been uncanny.

The prospect of legal challenges to President Trump’s purges may be a feature, not a bug, for adherents of sweeping presidential authority.

The early days of the transition have been marked by dismissals and dread.

Through a flurry of orders, the new president quickly began driving the country in a different direction on many contentious issues.

Agencies are gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the blizzard of new policies as workers frantically try to assess the impact on their lives.

The rebranding of a former White House digital office into the new Department of Government Efficiency signals its potential limits, budget experts said.

We want to know what you think about the changes President Trump is making to federal government jobs. How are the administration’s new policies going to affect you and your work?

Scientific meetings were canceled, and research data on the bird flu outbreak was delayed, amid confusion over the directive.

Their lawsuits said the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, President Trump’s cost-cutting operation, violated a law requiring federal advisory committees to include a balance of views.

The departures are common when a transition takes place, but it is now happening more quickly and on a larger scale than under previous administrations, a U.S. official said.

The incoming deputy chief of staff told lawmakers that early action would include directives to give President-elect Donald J. Trump more control over federal workers, as well as on energy and immigration.

Government agencies that shrank in President-elect Trump’s first term have mostly bounced back, and some have become even larger.

Federal employees and others in the capital have grown attached to work-from-home arrangements. But hybrid work may disappear in the second Trump era.

Agencies and unions have put in place new guardrails designed to limit political interference in government research.