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.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will address the press Thursday afternoon as scrutiny mounts over President Trump’s moves to negotiate an end to the nearly three-year-long war