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When he's not tooling around the National Capital region on his motorcycle, Tom Temin interviews federal executives and government contractors who provide analysis and insight on the many critical issues facing the Executive branch. The Federal Drive is found at FederalNewsNetwork.com and 1500 AM in the Washington D.C. region.
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The Federal Executive Institute, a long standing Leadership Development Center for
federal executives, is closing down following President Donald Trump's executive order signed on Monday. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis is here with more.
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The Trump administration's 180 from DEI or Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives seems to have leaked into the private sector as well. One reason, a change of emphasis in the kinds of cases the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been tasked with going after. With a change in leadership and policy, what can we expect to see from the commission? For some insight, I spoke with Carol Warner, editor of the publication HRMorning.
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Whether you took the deferred resignation offer from the White House or not, everyone is paying attention to its implementation. In an attempt to provide a softer and easier way to reduce the federal workforce, this is not necessarily a new idea for doing so, it's just never been attempted on this scale before. To get some more background on it we welcome back to the program Elaine Kamarck, Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution.
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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin
As the White House's buyout offer is now allowed to proceed, a look at the precedent it seemed to have leaned on for coming up with the idea
A change of leadership and emphasis for the EEOC
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The Air Force says there's a new unity of effort when it comes to bringing new officers into the service. In December, officials created the new Air Force accession center, bringing the Air Force recruiting service and the home center for officer accessions under one Commander. The Commander is Brigadier General Christopher Amrhein. He talked with Federal News Network's Jared Serbu about the reasons for the reorganization and what it's achieved so far.
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President Donald Trump is directing agencies to prepare for large scale reductions in force and a new executive order. Trump also caps agency hiring and further institutionalizes the power of Elon Musk's DOGE. For the latest Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday joins me.
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Judging from its having fired of the commandant of the Coast Guard, the Trump administration apparently feels the need for reform. For why and how that might happen, we turn to former Coast Guard attorney, and now a Holland and Knight partner, Sean Pribyl.
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A provision in this year's National Defense Authorization Act, seems to have directed the Defense Department to analyze military air shows, and the role they play in recruitment, among other things. That got us thinking about that question as well, and we seemed to have found the perfect person to discuss it. I had the pleasure of speaking with John Cudahy, who is the president of the International Council of Air Shows.
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Events of the last few weeks have caused federal managers heads to spin. The resignation offer, the closure of agencies, the new policy schedule. All these developments have sparked lawsuits. One of the litigants is the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. Joining me with the whats and wherefores, NARFE staff vice president John Hatton.
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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin
What the Coast Guard can expect under the Trump administration
This year's defense spending bill may call for examining military air shows' effect on recruitment
Last couple of weeks made you crazy? At least you've got a lot of company
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the first three weeks of the Trump administration's shock and awe approach to reorder the government contractors have been unusually quiet. From the canceling of contracts to efforts to reduce the federal workforce. Industry and their associations have not publicly vocalized any broad concerns or offered any true opposition to U.S. DOGE services. In his reporters notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about why contractors are laying low for now.
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Whistleblowers have more anti-retaliation tools than they realize
Two new Chinese warplanes could mean the end of U.S. air superiority
When the FDIC took extraordinary action and it paid off
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The largest federal employee union keeps fattening. The American Federation of Government Employees is also leading several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's workforce policies. AFGE leaders say that's why new people are joining. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman joins me with the latest.
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If things get really bad, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation can cover deposits that are not insured. But that requires authority from the Treasury Secretary. The FDIC did just that in 2023. The Government Accountability Office found that the action paid off by reducing systemic risk. More now from the GAO's director of financial markets and community investment, Michael Clements.
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President Donald Trump has fired the Director of the Office of Government Ethics. That
removal was just the latest in a spate of unprecedented terminations by the President, but at least one official has just been temporarily reinstated by a federal court. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday has the latest.
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As if not enough is going on in the world, the Chinese military has flown two new stealthy jets. Some military observers consider them a tangible threat to the U.S. One is a bomber and one is a fighter. For what it all means, we turn to Lexington Institute vice president Rebecca Grant.
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The Whistleblower Protection Act was enacted to protect people who raise issues from retaliation. It's not the strongest law in the world, according to my next guest. In a recent National Law Review article, he lists several other tools whistleblowers can also use. Attorney Stephen Kohn of Kohn, Kohn Colapinto joins me now.
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Yesterday, we were supposed to find out whether the Office of Personnel Management's
controversial deferred resignation program will be allowed to proceed, but we did not hear. As of now, the program is still in legal limbo as a federal court in Boston decides whether to issue a restraining order. Meantime, the government is now appealing a separate court's ruling that ordered it to reinstate Treasury payments to states and nonprofits, and a new lawsuit accuses
the government of sweeping privacy violations in connection with the Department of Government Efficiency's, activities, just a few of the pieces of litigation affecting federal agencies and their employees. Right now, Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been up all night almost with an update on what's happening and not happening in the courts.
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The Trump administration is cracking down on remote employment. It wants federal employees in their offices, but for federally employed military spouses, it looks like they'll be able to continue working remotely here with some questions they're asking and a few answers, Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis.
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For miners people who dig things out of the earth finding the healthcare and other providers they may need can present challenges. Now the Mine Safety and Health Administration part of the Labor Department has organized an online platform for miners. Joining me with the details statistician William Drexler and management and program analyst Joe Mackowiak.
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