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Former President Donald Trump has previously said he would “dismantle the deep state” and reinstitute his 2020 Schedule F policy to convert federal employees in policy-related positions to roles exempt from civil service protections, effectively making them easier to remove.
Congress’ refusal to provide additional funding for the Social Security Administration in September’s two-month continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown is kneecapping two tools that are key to combatting the agency’s customer service crisis.
And federal HR leaders have repeatedly testified before Congress that they conduct oversight to ensure feds do not take advantage of telework agreements to receive more locality pay than they are entitled.
The guidance contains a significant amount of boilerplate language detailing that the federal government must maintain a workplace free of harassment and recruit a diverse workforce, while also defining terms like “gender non-conforming” and “non-binary” and requiring that employees be addressed “by the names and pronouns they use to describe themselves.”
In 2019, the administration of then-President Donald Trump announced plans to relocate the federal government’s largest land management agency from the nation’s capital to Grand Junction, Colorado, a city of about 65,000 people a four-hour drive from the nearest major airport.
“These projects are going to fund the redesign of highway interchanges to make it safer for drivers, construction of major bridges the communities count on every day, an expansion of passenger rail, expanded capacity of shipping ports to move goods more efficiently and much more,” Buttigieg told reporters.
“Leaders across the Biden-Harris Administration — and managers and supervisors across government — have prioritized rebuilding their workforces and engaging them on the issues most important to them,” acting OPM Director Rob Shriver said in a statement.
Another led the VA’s National Cemetery Administration, which provides burial services for veterans and their eligible family members, to a score of 97 out of 100 in the 2023 American Customer Satisfaction Index, the highest mark in the history of the survey and nearly 30 points above the government-wide average.
Attorneys Stephen Marcus and Bruce Kuhlik discuss the ethical responsibilities of lawyers in the context of predicted attempts by Donald Trump and his allies to undermine the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The Belgian probe, which was officially opened on Wednesday, comes after an investigation by Palestinian journalist and Bellingcat contributor Younis Tirawi, who accused the Refaim sniper unit of “brutal execution of unarmed civilians.”
Similar to a bipartisan report issued last month by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the panel cited USSS for not clearly identifying who was in charge in Butler, not adequately ensuring communication and coordination between the agency and other law enforcement entities and failing to deploy agents with requisite experience.
The future commissioners have spent weeks anticipating these rules as they plan their five-year terms in Brussels, which will begin pending approval by the European Parliament after grueling hearings set for November.