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Lawmakers Expect a Stopgap Spending Measure to Avoid an October Shutdown
Despite the two-year budget deal, agencies are likely to receive a continuation of current spending levels well into the fall, Congressional aides say.
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USDA Taps Retired Former Employees to Cope With Mass Exodus at Science Agencies
With the majority of employees at the Economic Research Service and National Institute for Food and Agriculture slated to leave rather than relocate to Kansas City, the department is offering jobs to retired employees—in Washington, D.C.
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Pentagon Sees ‘No Major Concerns’ With Raytheon-United Technologies Merger
The Defense Department’s top weapons buyer, Ellen Lord, gives stamp of approval to what would be the second-largest defense and aerospace company ever.
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Trump Administration Expands Political Power Over Career Immigration Judges
Judges say immigration court system has "effectively been dismantled."
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Viewpoint: Trump Wants to Nuke His Way Out of Big Problems
The president seeks bumper-sticker solutions to complicated problems, from hurricane prevention to border walls.
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Better Data Would Ease Gaps In Rural Public Health
Some of the data rural public health officials need to better serve their communities exists but is hard to access and use.
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DEA to Expand the Number of Legal Marijuana Growers
Currently, only one facility can legally grow pot for federally backed research.
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After Federal Officials Sent Letters to Over-Prescribing Docs, Prescriptions Fell and Patient Safety Rose
A small office at GSA is helping agencies apply behavioral science to reap big improvements in program effectiveness.
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When Transgender Travelers Walk Into Scanners, Invasive Searches Sometimes Wait on the Other Side
Transgender and gender nonconforming people say they have been pressured to expose their genitals during TSA searches at airports. The encounters stem from shortcomings in the agency’s technology and insufficient training of its staff.
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‘I’m Just Baffled’: Internal Emails Show Career VA Employees Frustrated by Influence of Mar-a-Lago Outsiders
Employees question knowledge of the "Mar-a-Lago" crowd, but note importance of appeasing Trump's friends.
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Viewpoint: Changes For a Landmark Agreement Mean Immigrant Children Face Harsher Treatment In the U.S.
Immigrant children could remain indefinitely in federal detention if courts allow the Trump administration to ditch a landmark agreement that has protected migrant children for decades.
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The Administration Rushed on a Sweeping Immigration Policy and Made Substantive, Sloppy Mistakes
Trump’s new immigration policy applies more harshly to families of U.S. citizens in the military than to families of noncitizens in the military. Experts think it’s an error that suggests officials are pushing policies even they don’t fully understand.
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Sanders Campaign Proposes Granting Feds the Right to Strike
Workforce, labor experts suggest there may be better ways to improve federal employees’s bargaining rights.
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North Carolina Sheriffs Win a Round Against ICE
Republican lawmakers had sought to make counties help enforce immigration law.
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Analysis: New Trump Rules Stand to Block the Public From Information About the Treatment of Detained Migrant Children
The administration plans to scrap the Flores settlement, meaning the long-term or indefinite detention of migrant children will carry on out of public view.
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White House Backs Down in Fight Over Foreign Aid Spending Cuts
The move would have raised legal questions and disrupted negotiations over governmentwide funding.
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People Don’t Always Behave Rationally—Agencies are Learning to Plan for That
Officials are increasingly leveraging the power of behavioral science to enhance program performance.
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Leaked Immigration Court Official’s Directive Could Violate Rules That Protect Families From Deportation
Legal experts say placing hard limits on family immigration cases could be illegal.
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Some of the Country’s Worst Prisons Have Escaped Justice Department Action
Prisons in Alabama are so bad, the Department of Justice said they violate Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment. We found prisons in Mississippi that may be even worse.
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