Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed eliminating Initiative 82 while ICE raids restaurants. Plus support nurses with DCNA.

It's Public Service Recognition Week! This week has been celebrated the first week of May since 1985 to honor the people who serve our nation as federal, state, county, local and tribal government employees.

On March 31, 2025, the Trump administration conceded in a court filing that it had mistakenly deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia — a legally protected Maryland resident, father, and member of SMART 100 — to El Salvador because of an “administrative error.”

On Thursday President Trump signed an executive order rescinding the collective bargaining rights of more than 1 million federal workers. The order strips the right to union representation from more than 30 federal agencies.

In a powerful show of solidarity, thousands of postal workers and members of the American Postal Workers Union rallied last week for a National Day of Action to say, “Hands Off Our Public Postal Service – The U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale!”

The Washington Teachers' Union, ATU Local 689, and thousands of DC Public School students and local residents came together to stop the attack on DC's autonomy. The bill will head to the House of Representatives next week.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered OPM to rescind directives that initiated the mass firing of probationary workers across the government, ruling that the terminations were probably illegal, as a group of labor unions argued in court.