Some of America's governors — mostly Democrats — have a message for the wave of fired federal workers: We want you. The governors are welcoming former federal staffers who lost their jobs in the Trump administration's widespread cost-cutting agenda to apply for government jobs in their states.

The Trump administration Wednesday ordered heads of federal departments and agencies to prepare to initiate "large-scale reductions in force" by March 13

President Donald Trump's administration says federal agencies should begin planning to eliminate employee positions

More mass layoffs of federal workers are coming. Trump officials asked agencies to submit plans for reorganization in a memo Wednesday, which will extend beyond the layoffs of probationary and diversity-focused workers that are already affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of government employees.

The Trump administration moved forward Wednesday with its plans to conduct large-scale layoffs across agencies, the latest move to downsize the federal workforce.

The Trump administration directed federal agencies on Wednesday to prepare for mass layoffs, according to the heads of the White House budget and personnel management offices. Budget Director Russell Vought and Charles Ezell,