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1 month ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale
After a strong start in January, the Thrift Savings Plan saw month-over-month declines across all funds in February, with the Common Stock Index C fund and the Small Cap Stock Index Investment S fund posting the highest negative returns. The S fund posted the largest negative return with -5.80%, while the C fund followed up with -1.30% return in February. The rest of TSP funds achieved positive returns last month though almost all were lower compared to January.
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1 month ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Tom Temin
Federal employees across the country, many of whom have worked from home since the COVID-19 pandemic, were back at agency offices Monday under President Donald Trump’s return-to-office mandate. Billionaire Elon Musk, who is leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency scouring government agencies for suspected waste, delivered a warning Monday to workers on his platform X. “Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave,” Musk wrote.
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1 month ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jared Serbu |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman
The Office of Special Counsel believes at least some federal employees who were caught up in waves of mass removals during their probationary periods were fired unlawfully, and is asking the board that adjudicated federal employment disputes to put their terminations on hold, officials said Monday.
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2 months ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Tom Temin |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman
One of the most difficult debates right now is whether the new career civil servant classification is a good thing or a bad thing. It’s called “policy/career,” a new name for Schedule F. The Trump administration has willed it into being with an executive order. Longtime government accountability watcher Joe Spielberger, of the Project on Government Oversight, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to make the case against this classification.
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2 months ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Tom Temin
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2 months ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Tom Temin
The Office of Personnel Management is giving agencies a brighter green light to make their chief information officers political appointees. OPM is telling agencies they can reclassify these senior executive service (SES) roles to general instead of career reserve. The new policy is asking agencies to send their reclassifications to OPM by Feb. 14. One key part of the memo is OPM is only “recommending” and not mandating this change.
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2 months ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Tom Temin
Foreign aid starts out as appropriated dollars. The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development turn the dollars into contracts. Which means the Trump administration’s pullback on foreign assistance and its near total shutdown of US aid, mean contractors are feeling the pinch. Joining me with more, two attorneys with long federal experience. From Jenner and Block, Ian Moss and David Robbins. Interview transcript:Tom Temin And Ian, let’s start with you.
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2 months ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Justin Doubleday
Lawmakers and other officials are raising concerns that President Donald Trump’s efforts to cut the federal workforce are kneecapping recent initiatives to recruit more cyber and technology personnel into government. In a Feb.
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2 months ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Tom Temin
Some IRS employees who accepted the Office of Personnel Management’s “deferred resignation” offer are now being told they must stay on the job through May 15, because the agency has deemed their work “essential” to this year’s tax filing season. OPM has given all federal employees until the end of the day on Feb. 6 to accept its offer. OPM told most federal employees that if they accept this offer, they would be put on paid administrative leave no later than the end of fiscal 2025.
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2 months ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Tom Temin
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA confirmed on Wednesday that it has offered buyouts to employees who voluntarily resign, the latest group of workers targeted in President Donald Trump’s push to transform the federal government. A CIA spokesperson declined to say how many people received offers or whether they face any deadline to decide. Trump’s Office of Personnel Management already has offered millions of federal workers about eight months of salary if they agree by Thursday to leave their jobs.
