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The new DHS headquarters, which GSA is managing, includes green roofs, and other green buildings features.
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CISA on the hunt, this time for artists to decorate its new headquarters

In today’s Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration is looking for artists to spruce up a new headquarters for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure…

Federal Newscast

Administration isn’t finished with its plans for the contractor workforce

Congress

FILE - In this March 4, 2021, a bird flies near the U.S. Capitol dome at sunrise in Washington. The Republican fundraising committee dedicated to flipping the House in the 2022 midterm elections says it raised more than $105 million this year through September 2021. The record haul marks a 74% increase over last cycle and includes $25.8 million raised in the third quarter of the year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Checking in on the year-end checklist, and it’s not pretty

Federal Report

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Cybersecurity and secure nerwork concept. Data protection, gdrp. Glowing futuristic backround with lock on digital integrated circuit.

Pentagon warns lawmakers to make sure they raise debt ceiling

Federal Newscast

Biden signs bill to avert partial government shutdown

Government Shutdown

The federal employee vaccination mandate has launched fresh arguments in Congress

Congress

(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. To enact President Joe Biden’s expansive domestic agenda this year, Democrats have mapped out a convoluted legislative maze. The party wants to push the new president's multitrillion-dollar plans for supercharging federal infrastructure, climate change and social programs through a Congress in which they have only paper-thin majorities. GOP opposition is certain to be solid. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

September is looking downright nutty

Federal Report

FILE - In this July 12, 2021 file photo, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen prepares to speak during a meeting of eurogroup finance ministers at the European Council building in Brussels. Yellen is telling Congress, Wednesday, Sept. 8, that she will run out of maneuvering room to keep from broaching the government’s borrowing limit during the month of October. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Yellen warns US may hit debt limit in October

Budget

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

Congress

US relying on Treasury securities to keep things afloat amid growing debt

Federal Drive

Debt ceiling and border wall: gridlock as usual on Capitol Hill this week

Federal Drive

Congress pushes government towards a cliff

A creeping incompetence in handling the government seems to be overtaking Congress. Case in point? What’s going on with the MSPB.

Tom Temin Commentary

Fed up feds may have good news on shutdown

Guest commentator Jeff Neal explains why his long-time optimism about working for the federal government may be fading if another shutdown happens this…

Commentary

FILE - In this April 2, 2015, file photo, a visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif. A new program that was supposed to get patients off waiting lists at Veterans Affairs medical centers by letting them switch to private-sector doctors is proving to be an even bigger disappointment than initially thought. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

VA lays out standards for veterans to see private doctors

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Veterans Affairs Department releases its much anticipated community care standards, which lay out what veterans are allowed to get medical treatment from non-VA doctors.