A federal judge in Massachusetts grants a motion for a temporary restraining order against the Trump Administration's defunding of medical and public health research Monday.

Senator Patty Murray has voiced strong opposition to recent federal layoffs affecting workers in Washington state, criticizing the actions as reckless and uninf

Murray said Wednesday she was frightened about what could come next in the new administration's attempts to slash the federal workforce.

Washington Senator Patty Murray spoke out on Friday after "mass firings" from the Hanford site and the Bonneville Power Administration amid efforts by the Trump administration to purge the federal workforce.

Washington Senator Patty Murray is criticizing the Donald Trump administration’s process of laying-off federal workers at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

More than a dozen Department of Energy workers were fired this month at a central Washington nuclear cleanup site, with at least 30 more federal workers taking buyouts, the latest in President Donald Trump and “special government employee” Elon Musk’s quest to slash the federal workforce.

U.S. Senator Patty Murray has expressed strong opposition to reported layoffs of federal workers in Washington state.

Senate Budget Committee members, from left, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., the ranking member, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., work on the markup of the Fiscal Year

The Trump administration's recent directive for mass layoffs across government agencies is having significant repercussions on services in Washington state.

Senator Patty Murray released a statement Feb. 14 indicating that 1,800 Department of Energy employees have been laid off.

WASHINGTON D.C.- Senator Patty Murray who is a ranking member on the Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee will take questions of concern to education secretary nominee Linda McMahon. Senator Murray famously called the mom in tennis shoes was a teacher before first running for office.

Senator Patty Murray has voiced strong opposition to recent federal layoffs affecting workers in Washington state, criticizing the actions as reckless and uninf