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While Sandu won the largest share of votes in the first round of the presidential election two weeks ago with 42.3 percent, she failed to secure an absolute majority, requiring a runoff against her nearest competitor, former prosecutor and Socialist Party politician Stoianoglo.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced in July that it was reorganizing its internal operations to place more of an emphasis on data and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.
“As long as they go through the right security protocols, we'd essentially be inviting parties to test their technology with a fenced off set of VA data that doesn't have any risk of contagion into our actual live systems, but it's still informative and simulated,” he said.
Those delays, which former President Donald Trump seized on to spread the baseless lie that the election was stolen from him, are expected again in November, especially as all eyes will be on the battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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.