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Shutdown’s Damage to IRS Morale and Customer Service Will Linger, Study Finds
The appropriations lapse occurred during filing season, the agency’s busiest time of year, and will affect next year’s filing season as well.
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Trump’s Undermining of Federal Scientists Signals Need for Systemic Overhaul, Bipartisan Group Says
Career federal scientists are increasingly prohibited from doing their jobs freely, report finds, imperiling U.S. democracy.
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Trump Taps Former Corporate Lawyer to Lead Regulatory Rollbacks
Paul Ray has been the acting head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for six months.
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People Are Increasingly Interrupted at Work, but It’s not All Bad
Interruptions are inevitable – but how they happen matters.
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Federal Agency Staffing Problems in California Should Trigger Alarms
Talent gaps cannot be solved within the rigid civil service system.
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IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor
Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.
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Agencies May Now Enforce Trump’s Controversial Workforce Orders
An expired court injunction clears the way for the administration to significantly curtail the power of federal employee unions.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement Is the Federal Government's Least Popular Agency
Survey also finds a slightly higher percentage of Americans prefer a smaller government with fewer services than a big government.
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‘It’s Hovering. It’s Like This Weight’: How the Clinton White House Handled Impeachment
Former staffers reflect on keeping a besieged administration from falling apart during a scandal.
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It’s Finally Here: GSA’s New Consolidated Schedule
Tuesday’s solicitation will begin the process of turning 24 award schedules into a single contracting vehicle for products and services.
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The Trump Administration Issues Dozens of Corrections to Its Error-Riddled Immigration Rule
Just weeks before a sweeping immigration policy takes effect, the administration is correcting substantive errors, including ones uncovered by ProPublica that would have had big impacts on military families.
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Your Pay and Work Schedule Affect Your Health
There are several factors about our jobs that can have major effects on our health, from how much we make to when we work.
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Citing Need to Protect Career Employees, Pompeo Says State Won't Comply With Initial Impeachment Inquiry Requests
Congress is seeking to "intimidate, bully and treat improperly" career staff, says President Trump's top diplomat.
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Federal Government Awards Three Contracts for 65 New Miles of Border Fencing in South Texas
The cost of the new fencing will range between $385 million and $800 million. Construction is set to begin in early 2020.
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Allies Defend Kurt Volker, Diplomat Caught Up in Ukrainegate
Former officials say that the characterization of Volker that has emerged in some press reports is untrue.
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Repealing the Clean Water Rule will Swamp the Trump Administration in Wetland Litigation
Importantly, EPA does not dispute any findings of the peer-reviewed scientific studies that the Obama administration cited to support its approach.
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Viewpoint: How a Broken Pay System Forced Postal Supervisors to Take USPS to Court
The U.S. Postal Service has a serious middle management problem.
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Play of the Day: More on a Potential Impeachment
The Democrats want to impeach Trump and the news keeps coming.
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