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The Trump administration's "budget blueprint" includes a $54 billion increase in Defense spending, bringing the top-line spending for Defense to $603 billion and $462 billion for non-defense discretionary spending.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling on agencies to create regulatory reform task forces. The task forces will investigate how to "eliminate red tape" and regularly report back on progress to their respective agencies.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly forged ahead with tough new immigration policies, outlined in a pair of memos. Although President Trump hadn’t yet released his revised executive order on immigration and securing the border with Mexico, Kelly widened the number of people potentially subject to detention and deportation. He reiterated the plan to hire another 5,000 Customs and Border Patrol agents.
Freezing civilian federal workers might leave the Navy short the engineers it needs to build up to 355 ships.
Federal contractors can be forgiven if they're a little unsure of what to do over the next year. Between President Trump's tweets about major defense contractors and uncertainty over future General Services Administration policy, conditions are bit dicey at the moment. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, offers his take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
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Is Washington choking inside a great federal hiring freeze or is this just the gentle breeze that usually follows a new presidential team while it attempts to tame the bureaucratic monster they ran against?
Federal News Radio has learned President Donald Trump could sign an executive order as soon as this week requiring agencies to develop plans in the coming months to suggest ways to reduce the duplication of agencies, components and programs. The potential EO comes as agencies also are preparing for budget cuts that could range between 5 percent and 20 percent.
To federal contractors, the Trump administration feels a bit like an unbaked souffle. Lots of broken eggs and a hot oven, but nothing fully risen yet. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that leaders at his organization are hoping to see some of the Obama administration rules rolled back.
Battling on both the judicial and immigration fronts, the Trump administration over the past week faced a legal setback to its action on immigration from seven countries. The issue was before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, likely en route to the Supreme Court.
The Defense Department is moving into the implementation phase of the new military retirement system Congress ordered it to set up just over a year ago. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports officials expect to spend most of 2017 conducting an exhaustive education campaign to make sure service members understand how the new system works.
President Trump's plan to grow some agencies may interfere with his promise to shrink the overall federal workforce.
Despite the warnings of many federal prognosticators, the mass exodus of angry, frightened civil servants hasn't happened.
Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to discuss the federal hiring freeze, possible changes in the FEHBP program, and the slight downturn in the number of retirements. January 8, 2017