2021 budget

For DoD, new flexibility for IT spending is a test of trust with Congress

Early signs suggest Congress is ready to let DoD expand pilot programs that use colorless appropriations for IT, but not without limitations.

Defense

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The 2021 federal pay drama is over, so now what?

Federal Report

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FILE - In this April 23, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump's name is seen on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, in San Antonio. All that aid is now gone. Yet prospects for more federal stimulus this year appear all but dead, clouding the future for the unemployed, for small businesses and for the economy as a whole.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Agencies get more help distributing COVID-19 relief in $2.3T catch-all

Management

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2021 spending bill: Cyber, federal buildings are winners, IT modernization is a loser

Budget

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The U.S. Capitol is seen at night after negotiators sealed a deal for COVID relief, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020, in Washington. Top Capitol Hill negotiators sealed a deal Sunday on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package, finally delivering long-overdue help to businesses and individuals and providing money to deliver vaccines to a nation eager for them. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana.

Congress unveils details of massive $1.4T omnibus spending package

Budget

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Omnibus endorses 1% federal pay raise, gives feds more time to repay deferred payroll taxes

Pay & Benefits

Last day of FY 2020, Senate expected to send through CR to the President

Federal Newscast

House easily passes stopgap funding bill, averting shutdown

Congress

The ‘optics’ may cost feds again this year

Federal Report

Audit finds multibillion DoD health care maintenance backlog jeopardizes safety

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Federal pay parity for civilian employees should continue in 2021, House members say

Pay

House appropriators stay silent on federal pay for 2021

The latest budget proposal from the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government made no mention of a federal pay raise…

Pay

2020 isn’t much fun. So let’s talk about your 2021 federal pay raise instead.

The president is already planning for a 1% federal pay raise for civilian employees for 2021, but Congress may — if it has time — pass its own proposal…

Federal Report

Virginia senator worries for federal employees and contractors

Congress

Congress, having gutted out the biggest stimulus bill ever, is busier than ever.