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Can the Executive Branch Dismantle a Department Congress Created?

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Federal employees know the difference between a policy shift and an institutional dismantling. The reported transfer of two core Education Department functions—the Office for Civil...

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Jackler v. DOJ and MSPB Appeal Rights

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Federal employees should be watching Jackler v. Department of Justice closely. The case involves two career immigration judges, Megan Jackler and Brandon Jaroch, who were removed f...

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Political Favoritism and Federal Employee Rights

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Federal employees are trained to serve the public without regard to party, ideology, or political preference. That is why reports of disaster funding disparities between Democratic...

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TSA Travel Waste and Whistleblower Rights

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Federal employees are often the first to see the gap between what leadership says and what agencies actually do. According to the transcript, TSA cut roughly 3,000 workers in the n...

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OSHA Rights After USPS Worker Deaths

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A United States senator’s inquiry into the Atlanta Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Palmetto, Georgia, should matter to every federal employee who has ever raised a s...

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DOGE Alumni, AI Contracts, and Federal Ethics

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Federal employees have spent the last year living through workforce reductions, reorganizations, and shifting directives justified in the name of efficiency. Now, according to Vani...

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VA LGBTQ+ Care Coordinator Memo: Employee Rights

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For nearly a decade, VA facilities have included LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinators—roles created in 2016 after the agency identified that LGBTQ+ veterans were not consistently recei...

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Public Doubts Federal Cuts Improved Efficiency

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Federal employees have spent the past year absorbing reductions, reorganizations, removals, and shifting workplace expectations—all often justified in the name of making government...

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Black Women’s Leadership in Federal Service

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The history of Black women in federal service is not simply a story about access. It is a story about leadership built under pressure. For generations, Black women worked at high r...

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IRS Union Flag Lawsuit and Federal Speech Rights

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A new lawsuit by the National Treasury Employees Union against the IRS raises a question many federal employees have felt in quieter ways: what speech is still protected when it ap...

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Probationary Firings and Federal Appeal Rights

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For probationary federal employees, the past year has carried an unmistakable message: early-career service can feel precarious even when the government says it wants to recruit ne...

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Park Service Exhibit Removal Ruling

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Federal employees often know when an assignment feels legally or ethically wrong before a court ever says so. That is what many National Park Service employees may have experienced...

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