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2025 budget request cutting a few discretionary accounts

In the fiscal 2025 budget request, President Joe Biden wants to increase defense discretionary spending by $37 billion to $895.2 billion.

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Biden proposes 2% federal pay raise in 2025 budget request

Along with a proposed 2% federal pay raise for 2025, the Biden administration is looking at reforms for federal firefighters, as well as FAA and TSA employees.

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Biden budget request includes $13B for cybersecurity, continuing upward trend

CISA would get $3 billion under the Biden admin’s budget request, including funding to implement new cyber incident reporting rules.

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2025 budget includes $850 billion for Defense, 4.5% military pay raise

As in the rest of government, DoD’s 2025 proposal would give civilian employees a 2% raise.

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Pentagon’s 2025 budget boosts personnel budget, cuts end strength

DoD plans to cut its active end strength by 7,800 service members, but grow its reserve forces in 2025, according to the 2025 budget request.

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White House seeks $425M in 2025 budget to sell unneeded federal office space

The Biden administration sees a major opportunity to shrink the federal government’s sprawling real estate footprint.

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OMB looks to hire more evaluation experts across government in FY 2025 budget plan

OMB is also setting government job qualification standards for evaluation expert positions across the federal government.

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USCIS workforce bounces back, but agency faces murky funding future

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Pentagon has a new way to tackle disconnect between financial and acquisition systems

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(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Kiyoshi Tanno)Signboard of United States Department of Veterans Affairs

VA updates FY 2025 health care budget shortfall to $6.6B, nearly half its previous estimate

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House GOP setting up DOGE subcommittee to address ‘wasteful’ federal spending

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In final pitch, O’Malley highlights ‘deep concerns’ for SSA before his resignation next week

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Pulse Poll: Majority of feds putting mission over politics

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A call for yet another new agency to do what the government should be doing anyway

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