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FILE - In this June 4, 2020, file photo, a customer walks out of a U.S. Post Office branch and under a banner advertising a job opening, in Seattle. The U.S. government will issue its latest snapshot Thursday, June 18, of the layoffs that have left millions unemployed but have slowed as businesses have increasingly reopened and rehired some of their laid-off workers. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Pandemic could give chance to modernize federal workforce

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Senior Executives Association is urging the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to take action…

Federal Newscast

A kitchen server places breakfast out in an empty cafeteria at Kyrene De Las Lomas Elementary School Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Phoenix. Teachers in Arizona and Colorado walked out of their classes over low salaries keeping hundreds of thousands of students out of school. It's the latest in a series of strikes across the nation over low teacher pay. (AP Photo/Matt York)

New plan recommends reducing food waste at federal buildings

Federal Newscast

Senate bill would make it harder for political appointees to become civil servants

Federal Newscast

Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.)/(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

With another shutdown deadline on horizon, senators seek budget process reform

Congress

Lawmakers critique Mattis for presenting Defense budget without a defense strategy

Defense

DoD comptroller nominee: ‘It is time to audit the Pentagon’

Congress

Comptroller General Gene Dodaro/AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta

‘Significant problems’ in federal financial reporting

Congress