Budget Control Act

FILE - The U.S. Capitol building is seen before sunrise on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March. 21, 2022. With an urgent funding request stuck in Congress, the Health Resources and Services Administration says it can no longer cover medical bills for COVID tests and treatments for uninsured people and will stop taking claims at midnight Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

A lot’s been happening while Congress is on recess, focusing on the mid-terms

Congress has lots to work on when it comes back from recess after the election next week.

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Congress hints, Postal Service reform might be a real possibility this year

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Flatter defense budgets means Congress will look for savings and legacy cuts

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Budget agreement signed, but still need to cross T’s and dot I’s before shutdown

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Federal retirement cuts absent from House budget proposal

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(U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)Capt. Thomas Beltz, C-17 Globemaster III pilot with the 514th Air Mobility Wing, closes in to refuel with a KC-10 Extender over the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 10, 2018. The 514th AMW is an Air Force Reserve Command unit located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J..

Air Force may be better off trying to keep pilots than hiring more

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Office of Management and Budget staff delivers President Donald Trump's 2020 budget to the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 11, 2019. Trump's new budget calls for billions more for his border wall, with steep cuts in domestic programs but increases for military spending. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump’s 2020 budget proposal offers up ‘historic’ spending cuts to civilian agencies

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Administration proposes $750B defense budget via huge increase in OCO spending

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NTEU President Tony Reardon briefs union members (NTEU photo)

Union seeks answers on when federal employees can expect to see pay raise

In today’s Federal Newscast, the National Treasury Employees Union asked the Office of Personnel Management when federal employees can expect to see the…

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Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer attends a Senate Armed Services hearing Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Navy says its readiness is improving, but progress is fragile

The Navy tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that a change in funding could hurt its trajectory on readiness.

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DoD’s vendor base shrunk by 20 percent as defense cuts set in

A new analysis of DoD contract data shows serious impacts across the Defense industrial base because of spending cuts, including indications that thousands of firms exited the industry entirely.

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