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Agency Oversight

DeJoy agrees to pause some USPS facility changes until 2025

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says USPS will pause plans to move of mail processing operations at facilities across the country until January 2025.

Congress

Whistleblower protection legislation stalls amid congressional chaos

People

GSA, White House and Army bring in new IT leaders

Agency Oversight

DeJoy says USPS network needs ‘major’ overhaul. But union, senators wary of impact

Agency Oversight

USPS regulator raises ‘alarm bells’ as agency board reins in its budget request

Pay

Bill roundup: Committee OKs Border Patrol pay raise, CBP hiring, permanent federal firefighter raise

Agency Oversight

Agency efforts to cut redundant programs save $600B over 13 years, GAO says

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Commentary

Time to turn the government’s tech startup into a grown up

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Reporter's Notebook

Login.gov’s misleading claims breaks trust GSA built up over last 20 years

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Agency Oversight

Biden pulls OMB controller nominee tasked to oversee infrastructure, pandemic spending

FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. The U.S. Army, for the first time, is offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to highly skilled recruits who sign up for six years. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Federal Newscast

40 lawmakers call for 5% increase in Defense budget

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Congress

New bill would mandate legacy IT inventories, modernization plans

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Agency Oversight

'Long-overdue' USPS reform bill set to save agency $50B over decade passes House

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Agency Oversight

Senators warn USPS, CBP fall short on legislation to stop opioids in the mail

FILE - In this May 13, 2021, file photo, Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on unaccompanied minors at the southern border, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Portman announced earlier this year that he would not run again. The Senate primary in Ohio is still a year away, but Republican contenders already are working furiously to cast themselves as Trump's favorite in the open race. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP, File)

Cloud Computing

Senators see room in FedRAMP bill to address supply chain security threats

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Workforce Rights/Governance

With hundreds of pending unfair labor practice complaints, FLRA nominees pledge action

Chairman Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., speaks during a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 22, 2021, to consider the nominees for Postal Service Governors Anton Hajjar, Amber McReynolds, and Ronald Stroman, along with Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Workforce

UPDATED MSPB nominees describe strategies for dealing with the board's daunting backlog

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Workforce Rights/Governance

Biden taps MSPB acting executive as final nominee to fill the board

FILE- In this June 19, 2017, file photo, a person types on a laptop keyboard in North Andover, Mass. A new report by a global media consortium that expands the known target list of the Israeli hacker-for-hire firm NSO Group’s military-grade spyware provoked alarm Monday, July 19, 2021, among human rights and press freedom activists. They decried the near-complete absence of regulation of commercial surveillance tools. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Cybersecurity

When it come to defending against Chinese cyber espionage, agencies are a step behind

Female doctor holding a piggy bank: health insurance, medical expenses and tax concept

Benefits

Postal reform bill could raise health premiums for federal workers, employee group warns

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update from Federal officials on efforts to combat COVID-19 on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Agency Oversight

Congress makes government overlap, duplication problems worse, senator says

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People

Senate committee advances Ahuja's nomination for OPM director

Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director, appears before a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Workforce

Ahuja vows to bring stable leadership to OPM after years of turnover at the top

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