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A new Center for Presidential Transition® report found that the Trump transition team’s refusal of certain assistance reduced time for agencies to prepare for a new administration and created ethics and security concerns. buff.ly/ZpdElj7
Trump’s disregard of presidential transition requirements shows need for reform, experts argue
A new Center for Presidential Transition report found that the Trump transition team’s refusal of certain assistance reduced time for agencies to prepare for a new administration and created ethics…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A new Center for Presidential Transition® report found that the Trump transition team’s refusal of certain assistance reduced time for agencies to prepare for a new administration and created ethics and security concerns. buff.ly/ZpdElj7
The 20 largest civilian federal agencies collectively spent 63% less money in October 2025 — during the government shutdown — compared to October 2024, according to reported spending data pulled from the Federal Procurement Data System by Deltek in mid-November, via Frank Konkel. buff.ly/ATJF0oS
Civilian agency spending cratered during shutdown
October spending during the shutdown dropped by as much as 80% for some agencies compared to October 2024.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The 20 largest civilian federal agencies collectively spent 63% less money in October 2025 — during the government shutdown — compared to October 2024, according to reported spending data pulled from the Federal Procurement Data System by Deltek in mid-November, via Frank Konkel. buff.ly/ATJF0oS
AFGE's agency-specific lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive orders aimed at excising unions from most federal agencies accused the Federal Bureau of Prisons of arbitrary and capricious decision-making. buff.ly/e43QR03
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
AFGE's agency-specific lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive orders aimed at excising unions from most federal agencies accused the Federal Bureau of Prisons of arbitrary and capricious decision-making. buff.ly/e43QR03
The nonprofit Democracy Forward has tapped more than a dozen former government workers as fellows to generate proposals to improve their former agencies’ effectiveness in the wake of federal workforce cuts. buff.ly/6PpRTNl
Ex-feds join forces to reimagine government post-Trump
The nonprofit Democracy Forward has tapped more than a dozen former government workers as fellows to generate proposals to improve their former agencies’ effectiveness.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The nonprofit Democracy Forward has tapped more than a dozen former government workers as fellows to generate proposals to improve their former agencies’ effectiveness in the wake of federal workforce cuts. buff.ly/6PpRTNl
A major proposal from the Trump administration is poised to reshape how agencies handle layoffs, and could have big implications for federal workers. Here’s what’s in the nearly finalized plan: buff.ly/r3yPtpJ
Agency layoff rules to get an overhaul under nearly finalized Trump administration proposal
OPM’s reduction in force revamp plan will put performance ratings over tenure and strip some employees of protections.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A major proposal from the Trump administration is poised to reshape how agencies handle layoffs, and could have big implications for federal workers. Here’s what’s in the nearly finalized plan: buff.ly/r3yPtpJ
CFPB is preparing a major year-end shakeup that will hit its workforce hard and shift key enforcement work to DOJ. Reporting by Sr. Correspondent Eric Katz: buff.ly/tTx0i5c
CFPB to issue mass furlough by years' end and transfer outstanding cases to DOJ
The initiative marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to close the bureau.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
CFPB is preparing a major year-end shakeup that will hit its workforce hard and shift key enforcement work to DOJ. Reporting by Sr. Correspondent Eric Katz: buff.ly/tTx0i5c
EXCLUSIVE: The Education Department is raising internal concerns about its ability to offload its work to other agencies, documents prepared as part of the transfer process show. buff.ly/ItD8alx
Trump admin acknowledges difficulties in transferring Education programs to other agencies, internal documents show
The work Education has done so far is "minuscule" compared to what's to come, department says.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
EXCLUSIVE: The Education Department is raising internal concerns about its ability to offload its work to other agencies, documents prepared as part of the transfer process show. buff.ly/ItD8alx
Congressional Democrats on Wednesday brought back legislation to respond to President Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda and reduce the influence of private companies in the rulemaking process. buff.ly/g93ISOt
Democrats try again to reestablish legal deference to agencies on regulations
The bicameral bill also seeks to limit the ability of businesses to influence the rulemaking process.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Congressional Democrats on Wednesday brought back legislation to respond to President Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda and reduce the influence of private companies in the rulemaking process. buff.ly/g93ISOt
EXCLUSIVE: The Interior Department is consolidating employees and resources in its secretary’s office and charging its bureaus significant fees for the effort, according to staff and internal documents. buff.ly/Cu5jOBm
Doug Burgum is charging Interior Department agencies a premium to subsume their employees
The Interior Department's consolidation efforts is coming with a cost to National Parks and other components of the agency.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
EXCLUSIVE: The Interior Department is consolidating employees and resources in its secretary’s office and charging its bureaus significant fees for the effort, according to staff and internal documents. buff.ly/Cu5jOBm
More Americans report seeing the impacts of President Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce, according to new survey data released Monday by the Partnership for Public Service but, the share of those opposing the overhauls has hardly changed over the past six months. buff.ly/owKsDep
In spite of more public awareness about federal workforce cuts’ impacts, opposition to them hasn’t grown, survey suggests
Democrats and young adults are more likely to report being affected by or knowing someone impacted by the Trump administration’s government workforce reductions.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
More Americans report seeing the impacts of President Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce, according to new survey data released Monday by the Partnership for Public Service but, the share of those opposing the overhauls has hardly changed over the past six months. buff.ly/owKsDep
The Office of Management and Budget’s move to restore Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency's funding until Jan. 30 comes as the president has already fired or replaced more than 20 agency inspectors general.
Trump administration resumes funding for inspectors general hub after previously blocking it
OMB’s move to restore CIGIE funding until Jan. 30 comes as the president has already fired or replaced more than 20 agency inspectors general.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The Office of Management and Budget’s move to restore Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency's funding until Jan. 30 comes as the president has already fired or replaced more than 20 agency inspectors general.
OPM officials told agency HR leaders Tuesday that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to policy.” buff.ly/DAVJaQp
Final Schedule F regulations to describe civil service protections as ‘unconstitutional overcorrections’
OPM officials told agency HR leaders Tuesday that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to…
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November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
OPM officials told agency HR leaders Tuesday that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to policy.” buff.ly/DAVJaQp
Two House Republicans provided the final signatures to force a vote on legislation that would reverse Trump’s executive orders limiting collective bargaining for federal employees. Sr. Correspondent Erich Wagner explains it all:
Lawmakers force House vote on bill nullifying anti-union EOs
A pair of Republicans were the final signatures needed to on a bipartisan discharge petition in support of legislation that would strike President Trump’s pair of executive orders aimed at stripping…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Two House Republicans provided the final signatures to force a vote on legislation that would reverse Trump’s executive orders limiting collective bargaining for federal employees. Sr. Correspondent Erich Wagner explains it all:
Education is transferring major programs to other agencies as part of its effort to eliminate itself. Sr. Correspondent Eric Katz is following the story: buff.ly/81tGbv2
Education furthers effort to eliminate itself by offloading programs outside department
The department, which has already shed half its staff, is not expected to issue any additional layoffs as part of the overhaul.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Education is transferring major programs to other agencies as part of its effort to eliminate itself. Sr. Correspondent Eric Katz is following the story: buff.ly/81tGbv2
Federal employee union sues OPM after a FOIA request for Schedule F records goes unanswered. Sr. Correspondent Erich Wagner explains it all here: buff.ly/GSdr4p3
NTEU sues OPM for Schedule F records
The federal employee union said the government’s dedicated HR agency ignored an August Freedom of Information Act request pertaining to which positions agencies plan to convert to the controversial…
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November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Federal employee union sues OPM after a FOIA request for Schedule F records goes unanswered. Sr. Correspondent Erich Wagner explains it all here: buff.ly/GSdr4p3
The headquarters for the National Science Foundation is moving to a nearby building in Alexandria, Va., the General Services Administration announced on Friday, Virginia lawmakers applauded the move. buff.ly/flbvq3h
Virginia lawmakers glad National Science Foundation headquarters to remain in state
The General Services Administration announcement about NSF's new building did not address when the Housing and Urban Development Department would move into the science agency's current headquarters.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The headquarters for the National Science Foundation is moving to a nearby building in Alexandria, Va., the General Services Administration announced on Friday, Virginia lawmakers applauded the move. buff.ly/flbvq3h
No quick payday for IRS employees: agency officials say backpay will start Nov. 24, with full catch-up by Dec. 8. Union criticizes the IRS for falling behind the timeline the Trump administration announced Thursday. Sr. Correspondent Erich Wagner has the story: buff.ly/T6s0vAf
Union: IRS is dawdling on federal workers’ backpay
Contrary to a timeline offered by administration officials on Thursday, the Internal Revenue Service told employees Friday not to expect any backpay until Nov. 24.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
No quick payday for IRS employees: agency officials say backpay will start Nov. 24, with full catch-up by Dec. 8. Union criticizes the IRS for falling behind the timeline the Trump administration announced Thursday. Sr. Correspondent Erich Wagner has the story: buff.ly/T6s0vAf
The U.S. Postal Service experienced a net loss of $9 billion in fiscal 2025, as the new postmaster general continues his predecessor’s overhaul initiative that members of both parties and mail stakeholders have argued is worsening performance without achieving financial benefits. buff.ly/VOcpaxn
Postal Service leadership brushes off calls to pause modernization plan, as financial losses continue
Former Postmaster General Louis DeJoy intended for the U.S. Postal Service to break even by fiscal 2023 under his Delivering for America plan.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The U.S. Postal Service experienced a net loss of $9 billion in fiscal 2025, as the new postmaster general continues his predecessor’s overhaul initiative that members of both parties and mail stakeholders have argued is worsening performance without achieving financial benefits. buff.ly/VOcpaxn
Immigration judges tell Sr. Correspondent Eric Katz they feel "if they step a toe out of line right now…or they're one [asylum] grant away from being fired because of the arbitrary nature of the firings.” buff.ly/md1MShR
‘Climate of fear': Immigration judges say functioning of their court system is in jeopardy due to Trump’s firings
The Trump administration is pushing out dozens of judges, who say the changes are slowing down and politicizing the system.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Immigration judges tell Sr. Correspondent Eric Katz they feel "if they step a toe out of line right now…or they're one [asylum] grant away from being fired because of the arbitrary nature of the firings.” buff.ly/md1MShR
COMMENTARY: Every taxpayer dollar should count. Former OMB controller David Mader outlines practical steps to make government more transparent, efficient and focused on results. buff.ly/anx3Wtj #PublicService
I spent 50 years in government and here’s how to fix it
COMMENTARY | After serving under presidents from Johnson to Obama, David Mader has seen what works and what doesn’t in government and why improving it is about making it serve the public better, not…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
COMMENTARY: Every taxpayer dollar should count. Former OMB controller David Mader outlines practical steps to make government more transparent, efficient and focused on results. buff.ly/anx3Wtj #PublicService
Federal employees across government returned to their offices on Thursday—for the first time in 43 days, for about 650,000 of them—with digital piles of unanswered emails, abandoned contracts and, in some cases, a physical loss of access to buildings and devices. buff.ly/NbPkWpH
‘We'll probably waste millions again:’ Feds dig out of 43 days’ worth of piled-up work
Hundreds of thousands of employees stepped into their offices on Thursday for the first time in more than six weeks, with daunting backlogs before them.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Federal employees across government returned to their offices on Thursday—for the first time in 43 days, for about 650,000 of them—with digital piles of unanswered emails, abandoned contracts and, in some cases, a physical loss of access to buildings and devices. buff.ly/NbPkWpH
Most feds are set to receive #backpay for the 43‑day #shutdown, with payments starting as early as this weekend and continuing through Nov. 19. Sr. Correspondent Erich Wagner breaks down who gets what and when: buff.ly/8KzkZHy
Trump admin says feds should get at least most backpay by Nov. 19
GSA and OPM workers will be the first to see the first month’s work of pay—belayed by the 43-day government shutdown—with what the White House is calling a “super check” that should be delivered on…
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November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Most feds are set to receive #backpay for the 43‑day #shutdown, with payments starting as early as this weekend and continuing through Nov. 19. Sr. Correspondent Erich Wagner breaks down who gets what and when: buff.ly/8KzkZHy
The Congressional Budget Office and an industry group for federal contractors both predict the government won’t return to pre-shutdown operational levels until 2026. A partial funding lapse could start at the end of January without congressional action.
Agencies could still be digging out from shutdown when funding deal ends, association says
The Congressional Budget Office and an industry group for federal contractors both predict the government won’t return to pre-shutdown operational levels until 2026. A partial funding lapse could…
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November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The Congressional Budget Office and an industry group for federal contractors both predict the government won’t return to pre-shutdown operational levels until 2026. A partial funding lapse could start at the end of January without congressional action.
BREAKING: As many as 650,000 furloughed employees expected back soon, with paychecks restored and #shutdown layoffs reversed after the 43-day government shutdown ends. Sr. Correspondent Eric Katz explains what comes next: buff.ly/i0Wrqj3
Government to reopen after House votes to end longest-ever shutdown
Many furloughed workers, who will receive backpay, were already told Wednesday to report to work the following day for the first time in nearly six weeks.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
BREAKING: As many as 650,000 furloughed employees expected back soon, with paychecks restored and #shutdown layoffs reversed after the 43-day government shutdown ends. Sr. Correspondent Eric Katz explains what comes next: buff.ly/i0Wrqj3
After the Office of Personnel Management cancelled this year’s iteration of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, the Partnership for Public Service stepped in to fill the void with its own survey of federal workers. buff.ly/J4aoxfQ
Nonprofit launches FEVS alternative after OPM’s cancellation of official survey
The Public Service Viewpoint Survey aims to at least partially fill the void left by the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, which OPM cancelled this year despite a legal requirement that it be…
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November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
After the Office of Personnel Management cancelled this year’s iteration of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, the Partnership for Public Service stepped in to fill the void with its own survey of federal workers. buff.ly/J4aoxfQ