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Alan Berube is a senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.

In today’s Federal Newscast, a group of D.C. area Democrats in the House are hoping to block any funding meant for the relocation of the Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters.

No federal employee wants to leave D.C. None want to move here, either.

Randolph “Tex” Alles, the acting undersecretary for management at DHS, said through initiatives such as the St. Elizabeth’s consolidation and employee engagement, the agency is becoming more effective in meeting mission goals.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has abandoned plans to relocate to the St. Elizabeths campus, but another wave of DHS components plans to move in over the next few years.

Why do people feel a possible need to sleep at the office? GSA would like to remind workers they can’t.

The Agriculture Department finalized a new lease for permanent office space in Missouri, which will house employees at the Economic Research Bureau and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Moving people out of D.C. has been proposed before, but commentator and former Homeland Security CHCO Jeff Neal says the HIRE Act’s reasoning is flawed.

GSA Administrator Emily Murphy said a working group is looking at the acquisition fee structure the agency charges and will develop recommendations to rationalize it across FAS.

Trump Organization says it may sell Washington DC hotel amid criticism it is being used to profit off presidency.

A new bill would require the relocation of 10 departments and 90% of their Washington, D.C.-based employee positions to economically distressed areas of the country by 2033. But AFGE is pushing back.

DHS’s St. Elizabeths West Campus isn’t affected by a water outage that hit a neighboring psychiatric hospital, but GSA is taking steps to test the agency water supply out of an abundance of caution.

National Air Security Operations Center Director W. Hunter Robinson had the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

TRANSCOM says business is prepared for the daunting task of managing 20% of the moving market.