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Gene Dodaro

On the High Risk List? That doesn’t make you a horrible person

The biennial list steams on, a few programs off, a few added, but the billions go.

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How to diversify and include? Hint: It starts with you

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Here’s a three-step program for beleaguered feds

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It’s a fact: Government relies on statistics

Tom Temin Commentary

How tweets poison a leader from the get-go

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Burnout, schmurnout. It’s a great time to be alive!

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Haha — hear the one about the pandemic snow day?

Tom Temin Commentary

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2021 file photo a medical staff member prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Tudor Ranch in Mecca, Calif. Five weeks into its vaccination program, California still doesn't have nearly the supply to meet demand and there's growing angst among residents over the difficulty to even get in line for a shot. Social media is awash with people seeking or giving tips on how to maneuver through the system. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Can government fix vaccine distribution screwup?

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FILE- In this Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 file photo, robots work on an electric car ID.3 body at the assembly line during a press tour at the plant of the German manufacturer Volkswagen AG (VW) in Zwickau, Germany. The coronavirus has cancelled business plans all over the world but Europe's push into electric cars isn't one of them. Sales of battery-powered and hybrid cars have held up despite a deeply painful recession, mainly thanks to the action of governments. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

Buy, American — but ‘Buy American’

Tom Temin Commentary

President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Greetings new appointees! Buy your own bagel.

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President Joe Biden walks to a podium to speak after he was sworn-in during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Our edifices give mute testimony to continuity

Tom Temin Commentary

Stop the presses: $9B for the TMF!?

Buried in the next pandemic spending proposal from Joe Biden are big dollars for federal IT.

Tom Temin Commentary

Joe Biden

Will Biden give federal employees a shot in the arm?

If there is a plan for vaccination of federal employees, will someone please reveal it?

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Members of the National Guard stand inside anti-scaling fencing that surrounds the Capitol complex, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alan Fram)

The government shows its resilience

Tom Temin Commentary

Federal government came through the riots looking about the same.

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