White House
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Instead of "essential" and nonessential," the labels “emergency” and “nonemergency”are being used more to describe which feds have to work in the event of a government shutdown, whether from bad storms or blustering in the White House
August 07, 2018 -
In its first year and a half, the Trump administration has lost a higher percentage of top advisers than any administration in recent memory.
August 06, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, new analysis shows significant regulatory activity has fallen 74 percent since the new team took office.
August 02, 2018 -
Mallory Barg Bulman, vice president for research and evaluation at the Partnership for Public Service, shared more on the new language and what it means on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 01, 2018 -
Federal workers got a 1.4 percent raise in January that was proposed and backed by the president. But the outlook for 2019 was and still is different.
July 24, 2018 -
If any of the Trump administration's plans for reorganizing actually come through, they could have a big impact on contracts held by merged agencies or functions.
July 16, 2018 -
The White House believes federal unions across the country have been taking taxpayers for a ride using “official” time, which is meant to monitor health and safety issues in contracts, to conduct union business.
July 12, 2018 -
This time one year ago lobbyists who represent feds and retirees were quietly hoping that Congress would tear off only a couple of chunks from the embattled Federal Employees Retirement System. Then a funny thing happened on the way: Nothing.
June 25, 2018 -
The Trump administration seeks to privatize the Postal Service as part of the sweeping government reorganization plan it unveiled Thursday, which may bring with it a significant pay and benefits changes to more than 600,000 USPS employees.
June 22, 2018 -
After a year and a half of study, the White House rolled out what it says would be the most ambitious restructuring in the federal government’s history.
June 22, 2018 -
Federal real estate is not immune from the White House's new comprehensive governmentwide reorganization plan. The proposals aim to speed up sales process for offloading surplus property and create a permanent building project fund.
June 21, 2018 -
Six former federal IT executives offers opinions and insights about the latest attempt to strengthen the roles of agency CIOs.
June 18, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Veterans Affairs Department publishes the ratings of its 130 community living centers.
June 14, 2018 -
The Trump administration wants to make the federal retirement plan more costly to workers and less valuable to retirees. But officials could probably "drain the swamp" of thousands of bureaucrats if they made the changes effective later rather than sooner.
June 14, 2018 -
The American Action Forum counted about 3.75 deregulatory actions for every regulatory action under Executive Order 13771, based on data from the Office of Management and Budget.
June 12, 2018