For federal employees, HUD’s 2025 “wrapped” under Secretary Scott Turner is less a summary and more a warning. It shows how quickly an agency’s workforce, mission, and culture can be
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NIH Gender Health Grants: When Politics Overrides Science
Jan 06, 2026
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For months, a quiet but consequential shift rippled through the National Institutes of Health. Grants touching on gender-related health issues—cancer outcomes, maternal health, mental health, infectio...
Telework, SF-50s, and Locality Pay: What Feds Must Check
Jan 06, 2026
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For many GS-9 and above federal employees, telework has quietly shifted from a flexibility issue into a pay and compliance issue. OPM’s December 2025 Guide to Telework and Remote Work in the Federal G...
President’s Management Agenda: What 2026 Means for Feds
Jan 05, 2026
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Federal offices rarely shrink quietly. When headcount drops but the workload stays the same, phrases like “efficiency” or “modernization” can land with a thud. The President’s Management Agenda (PMA) ...
OPM’s New Telework Rules: What Federal Employees Must Know
Jan 05, 2026
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Federal employees are hearing a familiar rumor again: telework is ending. That framing is misleading—and dangerously incomplete. What actually changed is how the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) n...
OPM’s Proposed Rule Could Strip Probationary Employees of MSPB Rights
Jan 05, 2026
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Federal employees often hear that probation is “temporary vulnerability.” What is now on the table would turn that vulnerability into something far more permanent—and far more dangerous for the integr...
How OPM’s 2026 FEHB Change Affects Federal Families
Jan 02, 2026
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Federal employees are not imagining the shift. As of January 1, 2026, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has directed Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) and Postal Service Health Benefits ...
FEMA CORE Non-Renewals: When Disaster Response Shrinks Quietly
Jan 02, 2026
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For many FEMA CORE employees with January NTE dates, this week has landed with a familiar, sinking feeling. It is not just fear of job loss—it is the deeper sting of being treated as expendable after ...
Shutdowns, RIFs, and Reclassification: A 2026 Reality Check for Federal Employees
Jan 02, 2026
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Walking back into a federal building at the start of 2026, many employees feel a familiar tightness in the chest. That reaction is not overblown. It reflects an accurate reading of the landscape—espec...
Kristi Noem’s DHS and What 2025 Meant for Federal Employees
Dec 31, 2025
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For federal employees, leadership at the top of an agency is not an abstract concern. It determines how power is exercised, how mistakes are corrected, and whether career staff are protected or expose...
A Year-End and Year Ahead Report for Federal Employees
Dec 31, 2025
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As the year closes, many federal employees are not feeling celebratory. Investigations linger, disciplinary proposals land without warning, and workplace rules continue to shift. A year-end check-in i...
Pam Bondi’s DOJ: A Troubling 2025 Year in Review
Dec 19, 2025
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For many federal employees, 2025 has felt destabilizing—especially for those who built careers around the assumption that the rule of law, not political loyalty, anchors public service. At the Departm...
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