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Three senior leaders at @CDCgov offered their resignations Wednesday shortly after a government social-media account said CDC Director Susan Monarez was no longer with the agency. Lawyers for Monarez said she refuses to resign, via @wccordell.

Union officials are concerned about the reasonableness of a @USDOT plan to consolidate @FAAnews staff in the department's headquarters and said that it’s raising red flags for the agency’s workforce, via @seanthenewsboy.

The Trump administration will on Thursday grant itself new permission to hire any attorney to serve as an immigration judge on a temporary basis, eschewing longstanding restrictions on who could serve in those roles, via @EricM_Katz.

A federal appeals court this week signaled that it may revisit a three-judge panel’s decision earlier this month to allow agencies to implement an executive order aimed at stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of their collective bargaining rights.

At least 10 individuals were promoted by @StateDept after receiving layoff notices in July, according to the American Foreign Service Association, which represents the workers, via @EricM_Katz.

.@SenatorBaldwin is resurrecting legislation aimed at extending military health care coverage to an estimated 130,000 troops in the National Guard and military reserves, via @GovExec.

Advocates criticized the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate census advisory boards and warned that government funding fights could snarl 2030 Census planning, via @seanthenewsboy.

.@HHSgov terminated its union contracts at more than half a dozen agency subcomponents, making it the latest to implement President Trump’s executive order aimed at stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of its collective bargaining rights.

The former chancellor of @DeptVetAffairs' Acquisition Academy accepted roughly $2,700 worth of impermissible gifts, wrongly directed staffers to solicit and accept sponsorships for conference social events, according to @VetAffairsOIG, via @seanthenewsboy.

Trump signs executive order to create a new unit to fight crime in U.S. cities.

Federal law enforcement personnel will soon deploy to other cities around the country, President Trump said at the White House on Friday, even as he suggested he could keep officers and agents in Washington past their 30-day limit, via @EricM_Katz.

President Trump has just nine days to issue his likely plan to freeze federal employees’ salaries in 2026, before sizeable automatic and across-the-board increases take hold.

Federal employees 70+ could be missing out on Social Security benefits, and so could their spouses.

After pushing 26,000 employees out, @irsnews is scrambling to find enough personnel to carry out its duties, via @EricM_Katz and @AlmsNatalie.

A nonprofit organization representing active and former FBI agents said that the apparent lack of due process for officials terminated earlier this month has led to widespread fear about political retribution across the agency, via @seanthenewsboy.

The Trump administration has billions to hire tens of thousands of ICE, CBP, and prison staff—but can they actually fill the jobs?

New Ed Dept rule could cut Public Service Loan Forgiveness for some workers tied to gender-affirming care or DEI. Details:

OPM says it won’t run the 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey—despite a law requiring it. More here:

RT @wccordell: A proposed @usedgov regulation would introduce new enforcement authority to a department the Trump administration has spent….

After recent shootings near federal buildings, a bipartisan trio on the senators introduced a new bill to require the development of emergency communication guidance for federal building tenants, via @seanthenewsboy.