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Management

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

A source familiar with the Oversight committee’s plans said lawmakers have already met with key members of the incoming Trump administration’s DOGE team.

Pay

Proposed federal pay adjustment could boost wages for thousands of blue-collar feds

Tom Temin Commentary

Don't forget the mostly unknown career feds behind the prisoner exchange

Agency Oversight

The Marshals Service has trouble managing detention

Federal Report

Having best places to work means the government has worst places

Budget

Congress calls for more details on federal telework in 2024 spending package

Federal Newscast

Amid safety concerns, AFGE urges Congress to increase Bureau of Prisons funding

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Federal Report

Welcome to the 2% year: Not as much for fewer people

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Budget

6-bill minibus rewards some agencies, while slashing budgets for others

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Federal Report

BOP staffing problems roll on and on

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2020, file photo, the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. The federal Bureau of Prisons will begin allowing inmates to have visitors again in October, months after visits were suspended at the 122 federal prisons across the U.S. The visitation plan is detailed in an internal memo issued Monday, Aug. 31, and obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Commentary

The Bureau of Prisons and the challenges going into 2024

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Federal Newscast

More Bureau of Prisons pay incentives get death penalty

FILE - Colette Peters, director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, speaks after being sworn in at BOP headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday, Sept. 28, to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny. The bill is being introduced a day before Peters is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Federal Report

Pay reduction at Bureau of Prisons facility: Another view

FILE — Confetti flies after the Times Square New Year's Eve ball drops in a nearly empty Times Square, in New York, early Jan. 1, 2021, as the area normally packed with revelers remained closed off due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Crowds will once again fill New York's Times Square this New Year's Eve, with proof of COVID-19 vaccination required for revelers who want to watch the ball drop in person, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Federal Report

The ball drops Sunday night, but (almost) everyone's pay goes up

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Pay

Happy New Year! Now take this 25% pay cut

FILE - In this May 8, 2008 file photo, blank U.S. Treasury checks are seen on a roll at the Philadelphia Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia. On Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that the argument that Americans rely on the United States Postal Service for Social Security benefits is invalid because the Social Security Administration stopped mailing paper checks in 2013. The SSA encourages Americans to create digital accounts and receive their benefits electronically, but hundreds of thousands of users still count on the USPS to get their checks every month. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Federal Newscast

Thousands of federal dollars in retention bonuses, are not retained in 2024

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Pay

‘Who’s going to run the prison?’ Union says loss of pay bonuses at BOP facility will cause major attrition

FILE - A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Pay

New 25% retention bonuses at Bureau of Prisons only a ‘Band-Aid’ for larger staffing issues

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Federal Report

How the government drives its employees crazy

Colette Peters, director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, speaks after being sworn in at BOP headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Federal Report

These federal employees exemplify universal concerns

FILE - This Feb. 11, 2004, file photo provided by the Bureau of Prisons shows the Federal Correctional Complex in Florence, Colo. Clockwise from lower left is the minimum security Federal Prison Camp, the high security United States Penitentiary, the maximum security United States Penitentiary and the Federal Correctional Institution. Experts say the drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who will be sentenced on June 25, 2019 for smuggling enormous amounts of narcotics into the U.S and having a hand in dozens of murders, seems the ideal candidate for the federal government's maximum security, "Supermax," prison, also known as ADX for "administrative maximum," a facility so secure, so remote and so austere that it has been called the "Alcatraz of the Rockies.". (Bureau of Prisons via The Gazette via AP, File)

Management

A one-time inmate shows the federal prison system can — and often does — achieve its mission

Colette Peters, director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, speaks after being sworn in at BOP headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Agency Oversight

How BOP Director Colette Peters plans to raise employee engagement

Federal Prisons One Man's Rise

Tom Temin Commentary

How to fix the Bureau of Prisons

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