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Sources inside the General Services Administration say a town hall at the Technology Transformation Service (TTS) with two White House technology officials brought some reassurances and relief about the future of the organization, particularly 18F.
Rob Snyder, the acting secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department, officially exempts some health care, construction and project management professionals from the President's short-term hiring freeze. Snyder's announcement comes after repeated appeals from some lawmakers, who said the freeze could impact veterans' ability to access health care.
President Donald Trump got to work quickly after his inauguration a week ago. Of greatest immediate impact on federal employees, by Monday the administration had imposed a hiring freeze.
A clear majority of federal employees who responded to a Federal News Radio poll said they expect President Donald Trump's administration to negatively impact their agencies' mission or programs.
Thus far, President Donald Trump’s promise to reduce the size of the federal workforce only involves attrition, not layoffs. But if things escalate to actual reductions in force, Pentagon employees with poor performance ratings will be the first to go.
The Defense Department and Veterans Administration tell Congress their still working out the bugs at their joint health care facility in Chicago.
President Trump’s memo on the federal hiring freeze answers a number of questions, but the language of the memo also raises some questions, says former DHS chief human capital officer Jeff Neal.
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) offered his first insights into his management ideas during his two-committee marathon nomination hearings to be the next director of the Office of Management and Budget.
President Donald Trump's long-promised hiring freeze on the entire federal civilian workforce will wind up hurting veterans hiring and the IRS' ability to go after tax cheats, according to the senator who ran against him in the election.
If you say no new hires and no new contracting out, you've got the bureaucracy boxed in.
The government's top ethics official says President Trump still hasn't provided sufficient documentation of his plan to divest his business holdings.
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says some current and future feds could benefit from the current situation.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Monday implementing a federal hiring freeze. It prevents agencies from making most new hires and prevents them from filling vacant positions. It does not apply to military or national security positions.
For J. David Cox, national president for the American Federation of Government Employees, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election came down to "bread and butter issues." And those are challenges that his union, which represents more than 309,000 federal employees, will rally for with the start of the new administration as well.