More than 6,000 employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are expected to become the latest in a long line of federal employees to lose their jobs as part of cost-cutting measures, according to an email obtained by the BBC’s US partner CBS News.

Watch live as Karoline Leavitt delivers a White House press briefing on Thursday, 20 February, after Donald Trump accused Volodymyr Zelensky of being a “dictator.” On Wednesday, the Republican issued a social media threat against the Ukrainian president accusing him of continuing the war against Moscow as a way to soak American taxpayers.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he was counting on Ukrainian and European unity and U.S. pragmatism as Kyiv faces a mounting crisis in relations with its hitherto key U.S. ally under the leadership of President Donald Trump.