CBP Seeking Bids for Building Border Wall Prototypes
Customs and Border Protection has released two requests for proposal seeking bids to build multiple border wall prototypes.
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Customs and Border Protection has released two requests for proposal seeking bids to build multiple border wall prototypes.
The House has passed legislation designed to improve the VA’s ability to hire and retain quality federal employees.
The House passed legislation that would make it easier to fire VA employees for misconduct or poor performance as well as allow the agency Secretary to reduce employee pensions under certain conditions.
The Postal Service Reform Act has been given a small push forward in the legislative process.
The President’s budget proposal has not been drafted “with an eye toward what it would do to the value of your (DC area) condo….” Here are new priorities and agencies proposed for elimination.
President Trump has released his budget proposal for 2018. It calls for significant discretionary spending cuts in many agency budgets, but some agencies will see budget increases over 2017.
There is a lot of uncertainty for federal agencies and employees in the midst of a hiring freeze and proposed budget cuts. However, the author says it’s not time to start assuming a total “doom and gloom” scenario just yet.
President Trump has signed an executive order that instructs OMB to develop a plan to “reorganize governmental functions and eliminate unnecessary agencies, components of agencies, and agency programs.”
The TSA has had its share of problems recently. One Congressman has introduced legislation that he says will hold the agency and its employees more accountable.
The VA and federal civil service is “trapped in a failed and antiquated civil service system that is in desperate need of reform.” A House bill would change the system in the VA.