Congress

Proposed 2% federal pay raise gets support in 2025 defense authorization bill

The Senate committee’s version of the 2025 NDAA, advanced last week, supported a 2% federal pay raise for civilian feds and a 4.5% raise for military…

Pay

(Photo courtesy of April Gail Pilgrim, Army)

Teleworking DoD employees targeted by House spending bill

Federal Newscast

IRS adds another state to Direct File, as House Republicans seek to defund it

IT Modernization

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FEHB, OPM, GAO costs, Stethoscope and money on wooden table representing health care, FEHB plans.

Centralized FEHB database key to OPM cost savings, GAO says

Open Season

GOP senators put hold on over 40 Biden nominees

Federal Newscast

Rep. Hoyer warns of ‘freezes, furloughs, layoffs’

Federal Newscast

Senate GOP blocks bill to expand IVF access as advocates call for better FEHB coverage

Congress

Coast Guard sexual assault investigation

Coast Guard ‘stymies’ Senate’s investigation of sexual assault

Defense

Policy riders to watch as House appropriators mark up 2025 spending bills

Budget

Good Ship NDAA maneuvers steadily through congressional shoals

Congress

Christophe Megevand, of Schuman Cheese, New Jersey, judges the Rhined Swiss Style Cheese category in the opening day of the World Championship Cheese Contest at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 6, 2018. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Whine, cheese make the return-to-office debate pungent

Federal Report

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Agency cybersecurity incidents grew by almost 10% last year

OMB’s latest FISMA report to Congress shows an increase from more than 29,000 cybersecurity incidents in 2022 to 32,000 in 2023.

Federal Newscast

Former senior officials join rising calls for an alternative to Schedule F

Along with warning of what they said would be a dangerous return of Schedule F, the group called on Congress to enact reforms to modernize the civil service.

Workforce

Democrats warn layoffs ahead as House GOP proposes agency spending cuts

Budget

Democrats say an appropriations bill with 10% spending cuts to covered agencies would leave no choice but to implement staff reductions to make ends meet.