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National Guard gets a new chief after months-long leadership gap

Lt. Gen. Steven Nordhaus, who will be promoted to a four-star general, inherits the National Guard as its workforce and resources are being stretched thin.

Defense

National Guard bracing for possible leadership lapse

Defense

Biden’s pick for Pentagon’s S&T position pledges to reduce barriers to entry for small businesses

Congress

House leadership wants to get on with a final appropriation agreement for fiscal 2022

Federal Newscast

New report suggests cutting down number of appointees who need Senate confirmation

Federal Newscast

$100,000 ID-theft scheme earns VA employee a 46-month federal prison sentence

People

Senate confirms Brooks-LaSure to run health care programs

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People

Senate committee advances Ahuja's nomination for OPM director

Bicyclists ride past an inner perimeter of security fencing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, March 21, 2021, after portions of an outer perimeter of fencing were removed overnight to allow public access. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Congress

Will it ever be time for federal employees to return to their regular offices?

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Congress

Will Congress ever return to the normal budget process? Whatever that is

Shalanda Young testifies during a Senate Budget Committee hearing to examine her nomination to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Management

OMB nominees pledge to break down federal hiring barriers

Workforce

Biden names Obama-era veteran to lead OPM

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Congress

Congress is delving deep into some nitty-gritty governmental issues

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Federal Newscast

TSA looking to hire thousands of new airport screeners

FILE - This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twitter is enlisting its users to help combat misinformation on its service by flagging and notating misleading and false tweets. The pilot program unveiled Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 called Birdwatch, allows a preselected group of users — for now, only in the U.S. — who sign up through Twitter. Those who want to sign up must have a U.S.-based phone carrier, verified email and phone number, and no recent Twitter rule violations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Federal Report

How tweets poison a leader from the get-go

Neera Tanden testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee on her nomination to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), during a hearing Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Leigh Vogel/Pool via AP)

Management

Biden's OMB pick emphasizes more consumer-friendly government services

Loren Duggan

Congress

Congress is busy, but not with bills necessarily

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett arrives for her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP)

Congress

All eyes on the Senate, will any other work get done?

Loren Duggan Bloomberg Government

Congress

Different stimulus bills from the House and Senate to come

A Boeing 737 Max airplane being built for Norwegian Air International taxis for a test flight, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, at Renton Municipal Airport in Renton, Wash. The chairman of the House Transportation Committee said Wednesday that an FAA analysis of the 737 Max performed after a fatal crash in 2018 predicted "as many as 15 future fatal crashes within the life of the fleet" during opening remarks at the committee's fifth hearing on the Boeing 737 Max. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Federal Newscast

Independent panel finds FAA put Boeing 737 Max through 'rigorous' vetting

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People

What awaits the next secretary of state?