Steny Hoyer

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

House appropriators passed the Financial Services and General Government 2025 spending bill yesterday, though it’s 20% below what President Biden wanted.

Federal Newscast

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

Budget

Democrats warn layoffs ahead as House GOP proposes agency spending cuts

Budget

House GOP propose defunding IRS Direct File, further budget cuts to enforcement

Congress

Graphic By Derace Lauderdale

Hear those drumbeats? They’re predictions of a January government shutdown

Government Shutdown

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2017, file photo traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington streaks past the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters building. A former FBI lawyer was sentenced to probation for altering a document the Justice Department relied on during its surveillance of a Donald Trump aide during the Russia investigation. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Future FBI headquarters coming to Greenbelt, Maryland, GSA decides

Facilities/Construction

The sun shines on the dome of Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senate Dems ‘pushing to follow suit’ after House passes bill to block any future Schedule F

Congress

FILE - A young man stands in front of a shelve with hard liquor at a beverage market in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, June 15, 2007. The German government's drugs czar has proposed raising the age when people can buy beer and win from 16 to 18, and cracking down on alcohol and tobacco advertising. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Vets suing Army for not recognizing substance abuse disorders in discharges

Federal Newscast

‘Long-overdue’ USPS reform bill set to save agency $50B over decade passes House

Agency Oversight

House leadership wants to get on with a final appropriation agreement for fiscal 2022

Congress

House Democrats seek expansion of paid leave program for federal employees

Benefits

President Joe Biden signs executive orders after speaking about the coronavirus in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

UPDATED: Biden repeals Schedule F, overturns Trump workforce policies with new executive order

President Joe Biden took executive action Friday to repeal at least four Trump-era executive orders that limited collective bargaining and stripped certain…

Workforce

Omnibus endorses 1% federal pay raise, gives feds more time to repay deferred payroll taxes

A provision in the 2021 omnibus spending package gives federal employees a full 12 months to repay the payroll taxes that have been deferred from their…

Pay & Benefits

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2020, file photo sunlight shines on the U.S. Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Joe Biden wants to “restore the soul of America.” First, he'll need to fix a broken and divided Congress. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Congress will take up 1-week stopgap to keep government running through Dec. 18

Government Shutdown

Congress will begin voting Wednesday on a temporary funding stop-gap that will keep the government through Dec. 18. Congressional leaders have repeatedly said they’re not expecting a government shutdown, but some agencies have updated their contingency plans for the pandemic just in case.