The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens of American museums, research centers and libraries, as well as the National Zoo.

This is how long the hiring freeze will last and the implications for federal employees, those with job offers and college graduates and students.

Senate lawmakers are demanding President Donald Trump exempt all positions at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from a hiring freeze.

President Trump’s directive is supposed to exempt national security and public safety positions, but the F.B.I. has put an immediate hiring freeze in place.

The president is throwing the federal government, and the welfare of the men and women who fought for the nation, into chaos