Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has a few questions about some recent top news stories.
As this year's fifth continuing resolution nears its Friday deadline, relations on Capitol Hill look about as frosty as the incoming weather.
When asked if lawmakers would avert another government shutdown midnight Friday, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told an audience of federal employees it's still a toss-up.
Federal News Radio wants to know what effects the continuing resolutions and shutdowns have had on you and your agency.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office polled nine acting inspectors general and their staffs to find out how operations are effected by not having a permanent IG in place.
How would you like to find your name on a public list of half a million to 750,000 other civil servants who have been judged NONESSENTIAL to government operations?
With the prospect of yet another government shutdown deadline in less than a month, two members of the Senate Budget Committee agree that the current process of funding the federal government needs a serious overhaul.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management told agencies they may need to be flexible when applying retroactive pay for federal employees during the most recent government shutdown.
Federal News Radio's Tom Temin says the new, two-year, topline spending ceiling raised eyebrows even as it raised the coming deficits.
President Donald Trump's signature on a two-year spending agreement and six-week continuing resolution ended an hours-long government shutdown Friday morning.
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report for the Government Accountability Office critiqued the Homeland Security Department's implementation of the Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment Act.
As Congress works to avert a government shutdown before midnight Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security says the perennial cycle of shutdowns and short-term continuing resolutions has threatened readiness at the agency.
Will Congress pass another CR or shutdown the government again? Federal News Radio survey results show feds pessimistic about either outcome.
Margot Conrad from the Partnership for Public Service shares ideas with excepted employees and managers on how to survive, without pay, during a shutdown.
Senators seem as far apart as ever on fiscal budget talks. But will Tuesday's State of the Union address help avert a shutdown, or hurt even more?