Officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), and VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) told lawmakers on Monday afternoon that it will be “impossible” to complete the VA’s Electronic Health Records Modernization (EHRM) program on its current timeline. […]
Elon Musk’s social media notice on Saturday that Federal government employees need to state five things they “got done” during the previous week or face the loss of their jobs drew swift pushback over the weekend and into Monday from several Federal agencies including the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and State, along with fierce criticism from both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill. […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed in a video on Thursday that the Department of Defense (DoD) is reevaluating its probationary workforce and plans to dismiss “redundant” positions and “underperformers.” […]
President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) late on Feb. 19 that focuses the administration on finding ways to cut from the Federal government’s “non-statutory” activities – or those not specifically described in laws approved by Congress – along with a host of other functions that the administration considers to be detrimental to the country. […]
A Federal judge late Tuesday denied a request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to block Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from sniffing around data systems at seven Federal agencies. […]
A Federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of the Trump administration on Monday, allowing the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to continue accessing student data at the Department of Education. […]
Although the exact number of Federal employees who have been – or will be – affected by widespread layoffs instituted the Trump administration is not immediately clear, recent reports suggest the current number of cuts tops 12,000. […]
A coalition of over a dozen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Federal court on Feb. 13 against President Trump, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and its leader Elon Musk, accusing them of “unlawful exercise of power” in taking recent actions to invade Federal agencies, access their tech systems, and curtail their operations. […]
About 75,000 Federal employees have accepted the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” offer, a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The House Oversight and Reform Committee’s Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee quickly found a flashpoint – Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk – during its inaugural hearing today, with subcommittee Republicans hailing DOGE aims and Democratic members calling for the removal of “Musk and his hackers.” […]
President Donald Trump late on Tuesday issued an executive order that aims to make deep cuts to the Federal government civilian workforce via “reductions in force” – more commonly known as layoffs. […]
A Federal judge in New York on Saturday temporarily blocked access to U.S. Treasury Department payment systems by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE). […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Feb. 6 issued a call to government agencies to provide data to OPM by March 7 on current agency employee performance management plans and policies that will inform new rules about getting rid of underperforming workers, and further President Donald Trump’s aim to reshape the Federal workforce. […]
A Federal judge in Massachusetts placed the Trump Administration’s “deferred resignation” offer to Federal employees on hold until Monday, according to confirmation from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) obtained by MeriTalk. […]
The Trump administration is instructing Federal government agencies to remove the designation of “career reserved” roles for agency chief information officers (CIOs) – a move that the administration says recognizes that agency tech chiefs have “policy-determining capabilities across a range of controversial political topics.” […]
Democratic lawmakers and a coalition of labor organizations are taking action through legislation and a Federal lawsuit to protect Americans’ data after the Treasury Department allegedly shared confidential system access and data with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by billionaire Elon Musk and authorized by President Donald Trump. […]
House and Senate Democratic lawmakers put up a united front today against the apparent seizure and possible shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by President Donald and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, which has put billions in humanitarian aid at risk. […]
David McKeown, who last month took on the title of special assistant for cybersecurity innovation at the Defense’s Department’s Office of the CIO, said this week he’s trying to expedite the timeline for vendor applications through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), and is eyeing a three-month window for that process. […]
A Federal district court judge in Rhode Island is continuing to weigh the legality of the Trump administration’s move earlier this week to freeze trillions in congressionally approved Federal funding despite the administration’s action on Wednesday to rescind the order that authorized the freeze effort. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) declared an abrupt reversal today of its Jan. 27 order to freeze trillions of dollars worth of Federal grant and loan program payments after the short-lived order created nearly universal confusion over and drew opposition from several states who successfully petitioned a Federal judge to block the order from taking effect. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued marching orders on Jan. 27 for Federal agencies to comb through their workforce rolls and submit to OPM by April 20 preliminary lists of employees who they want to designate under the new “Schedule Policy/Career” classification that will make them easier to replace. […]
Greg Barbaccia has been appointed Federal chief information officer (CIO), according to a LinkedIn update he made on Friday. […]
The White House late Thursday issued an executive order from President Donald Trump that aims for his administration to develop a Federal government “action plan” on artificial intelligence technologies within the next six months. […]
Major Federal agencies appear to be taking a go-slow approach to making decisions both major and minor while the new Trump administration and its leadership ranks for agencies take time to settle in. […]
From overturning numerous Federal workforce policy pillars to canceling a well-regarded executive order about how the government should approach artificial intelligence technologies, the new Trump administration has been issuing a small blizzard of more than two dozen executive orders since taking office on Monday that are sweeping away numerous orders issued by President Biden during his term in office. […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ending remote work for Federal employees and ordering them to return to the office “on a full-time basis.” […]
President Donald Trump broadly hinted today – without going into much detail – at government technology and workforce-related steps that his administration will be taking in the coming days including a partial Federal government hiring freeze that was light on specifics. […]
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., are backing the conclusions from a new report the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Federal Cloud Policy published on Jan. 16 that highlights the critical need for Federal agencies to accelerate the adoption of cloud technologies. […]
President Biden’s latest cybersecurity-themed executive order issued today aims to engineer security improvements in at least a dozen major areas, with Federal agency systems, cloud services, and software emerging as prominent topics on an exhaustive list of security policy items. […]
Democratic members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee offered up a combative reception today to Russell Vought – President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) – on a host of issues. […]