Tom Temin Commentary
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Long speeches and piecemeal civil service reform mark the waning days of the 114th Congress.
December 12, 2016 -
President-elect Donald Trump's nominations for Defense, Homeland Security and National Security Advisor touch off Washington star wars.
December 08, 2016 -
Day-to-day, USPS is working just fine. But eventually, it's going to need actual people to populate its Board of Governors.
December 06, 2016 -
Feet cold? Put on a hat. If anything, we're entering a golden age for federal HR.
December 01, 2016 -
At first blush a cooperative agreement between HHS and its Cuban counterpart seems absurd, given the shambling condition of Cuba's medical system.
November 29, 2016 -
Listen to the career people without judgment, but expect them to brief you without their personal agendas.
November 25, 2016 -
The next defense secretary can expect lots of pressure from Capitol Hill, which in turn will find itself under minor siege by defense industry lobbyists.
November 22, 2016 -
Everybody take a deep breath. The Plum Book has 4,000 jobs. It always takes months to make a dent.
November 18, 2016 -
Few career feds, level-headed as they tend to be, are heading for the doors just because Donald Trump will be president.
November 15, 2016 -
Presuming you won't be fired, you may nevertheless have trepidation about whomever will come into your agency as leadership after inauguration.
November 11, 2016 -
Had Hillary Clinton won, you in the federal government and we who cover it would have had a fairly clear picture of what would have come next. With Trump, no one can honestly say.
November 09, 2016 -
The last four administrations have recognized the need for constant improvement of the citizen experience. They've devoted people and serious policy-making to cause it to happen.
November 08, 2016 -
Both candidates say they want to build new infrastructure and improve the roads and grids we've already got.
November 07, 2016 -
WMATA, like every transit authority, has always been something of a multi-headed octopus with murky accountability.
November 03, 2016 -
@WhiteHouse has put out more than 27,000 tweets to 12.1 million followers. Soon that account will get a restart.
November 02, 2016