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Evidence that many feds live paycheck-to-paycheck is not merely anecdotal.
With a partial government shutdown now entering its third week nearly 400,000 furloughed federal employees remain unsure how to fill their vacant days, but are finding ways to stay busy.
Amid the pre-Christmas frenzy of the partial government partial shutdown, President Donald Trump signed a new law aimed at enhancing workplace protections for congressional staff members.
House Democrats are trying many tactics to get the closed agencies re-opened. Bloomberg Government editorial director Loren Duggan offered a full rundown.
Anyone who has had a career that switches from government to industry, or vice versa, has probably lived through more than one lapse in funding.
In today's Federal Newscast, federal courts will be able to continue operating until Jan. 18 with their limited funds during the partial government shutdown.
For some federal contractors, the prolonged shutdown has turned them from doubt and uncertainty to real losses.
Among those stuck at home are people who were about to retire or had already filed their retirement papers. Federal retirement expert Tammy Flanagan had some answers on the potential delay for benefits.
Agriculture Sonny Perdue has famously proposed moving the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) out of Washington. A former NIFA director is skeptical of the merits.
A bill in Congress would make sure federal employees who work in security, food service, and janitorial services, get reimbursed after the government shutdown ends.
The Office of Personnel Management has told agencies not to give political appointees a $8,000-to-10,000 pay raise originally set to go into effect Saturday. But a prior executive order provided the raise unless Congress acts, which it has not.
Both the reporting entities at the state level and the agency itself are taking in more measurements of the environment using devices that sense and then send in what they sniff.
Contractors join federal employees and their families as the so-called collateral damage in the latest political game of chicken.
Back in October, the Coast Guard unveiled a new Maritime Commerce Strategic Outlook to lay it out. For details, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with Vice Adm. Daniel Abel.