20 hours ago · Federal government layoffs. Add Topic. Tracking federal layoffs 2025: Impacted agencies include IRS, FAA, TSA and more. ... The tax-collecting agency employs approximately 100,000 people.

2 days ago · The IRS has roughly 90,000 employees total across the United States, according to the latest IRS data. Racial minorities make up 56% of the IRS workforce , and women represent 65%. In addition to the planned layoffs, the Trump administration intends to lend IRS workers to the Department of Homeland Security to assist with immigration enforcement.

Feb 13, 2025 · Internal Revenue Service: Layoffs at the IRS began Thursday, multiple outlets reported, with about 7,000 people—or 7% of the IRS’ workforce—expected to be impacted, a person familiar with ...

6 days ago · President Trump's cost-reduction plan for the federal government has led to the termination of thousands of government employees in the last few days at agencies including the CDC, EPA and...

2 days ago · The IRS has begun laying off more than 6,000 new and newly promoted employees across the country as part of the push to slash the federal government, sources say.

2 days ago · The IRS has taken a more careful approach to downsizing than other agencies, given that it is in the middle of the tax-filing season. The agency expects to process more than 140 million individual ...

2 days ago · The layoffs are coming a week during tax filing season, when the I.R.S. will be inundated with paperwork and questions from taxpayers. The I.R.S. employs about 100,000 accountants, lawyers and ...

2 days ago · The IRS is laying off more than 6,000 employees as part of the Trump administration's widespread downsizing of the federal government. The agency had added thousands of workers in recent years in ...

3 days ago · The Internal Revenue Service will begin laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s push to downsize the federal work force, three people familiar with ...

1 day ago · WASHINGTON (AP) — The layoffs of roughly 7,000 IRS probationary workers beginning this week likely mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collections, experts say.. The majority of employees shown the door at the federal tax collector are newly hired workers focused on compliance, which includes ensuring that taxpayers are ...