presidential transition
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The president's recent Schedule F executive order allows agencies to reclassify career federal employees in certain policymaking positions into a new schedule of quasi political appointees.
December 15, 2020 -
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chairman of the Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, introduced new legislation designed to help incoming administrations better track "midnight regulations" issued in the final days of the previous one.
December 10, 2020 -
President-elect Joe Biden is naming Susan Rice as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council
December 10, 2020 -
President-elect Joe Biden is making his case for retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin to be secretary of defense, urging Congress to waive a legal prohibition against a recently serving military officer running the Pentagon
December 08, 2020 -
The defense contracting community is holding its collective breath, waiting for a batch of new contracts, that will be the first to require Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification.
December 08, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Congress wants more transparency about the use of Other Transaction Authority in Defense spending.
December 08, 2020 -
A coalition of good-government groups has focused on the Trump administration plan for policy-related career jobs known as Schedule F. They feel it represents a general alienation of the federal workforce.
December 04, 2020 -
Four years ago, commentator Jeff Neal suggested whoever won the election should focus not just on the top-level jobs, but also to look to the jobs in the middle of organizations as a way to jump-start the administration’s work.
December 03, 2020 -
With unemployment still high and a new economic slump possible this winter, President-elect Joe Biden has announced a liberal team of economic advisers
November 30, 2020 -
Republican Sen_ Lindsey Graham says he thinks President Donald Trump should attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration because it would be “good for the country.”
November 30, 2020 -
Transition funding for the incoming Biden administration, like all other federal appropriations, is coming from a continuing resolution, which expires in less than two weeks.
November 30, 2020 -
With a vaccine still on the horizon, and a presidential transition now underway, projections on contract spending for 2021 are murkier than usual.
November 30, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a group of Senate Democrats want to know how the Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine to veterans and employees.
November 25, 2020 -
Argue the facts and the reasoning, not the character of the person who made a decision.
November 24, 2020 -
President-elect Joe Biden is tapping Obama-era officials for top national security positions
November 23, 2020