Federal employees donate $4.2M in presidential race, mostly to Harris
Some unions representing DHS workers, most notably the National Border Patrol Council, have endorsed Trump and its leaders have frequently campaigned with him.
Moldovans head to polls in major test for EU future
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.
Inside the HHS reorganization to prioritize AI and emerging tech
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.
VA announces creation of new AI testing ground with FDA
“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.
Final results may lag in deadlocked presidential contest, anxious election officials warn
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.
New bill would levy penalties on feds ‘impeding’ presidential directives and require new training
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.
Without budget anomaly, SSA hiring is restricted and overtime is at ‘historic lows’
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.
A Senate bill targeting teleworkers’ locality pay now has its companion in the House
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.
GOP senators blast efforts to protect transgender federal employees
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.”
Trump says he’ll move thousands of federal workers out of Washington. Here’s what happened the first time he tried
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.
Biden administration doles out $4.2 billion for big-ticket infrastructure projects
“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.
Feds’ employee experience and engagement continued to climb in 2024, FEVS data finds
“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.