New mission: turn regulatory “big ideas” into real-world results
“How do you be very creative and clever, i.e., ingenious, in both how you design and apply environmental regulations?” Hannah Safford said. Congress – Federal News Network
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Navy advances effort to move sailors off ships and into shore-based housing
Limited barracks space and housing allowance restrictions often leave junior sailors living aboard ships even after returning to port. Congress – Federal News Network
Read More...Trump Is Sleepwalking Into Political Disaster
The most glaring self-inflicted wound from Donald Trump’s first term in office was his decision in 2017 to let Paul Ryan and other traditional Republicans push him into a futile war to repeal the Affordable Care Act. From Ryan’s perspective, the decision made perfect sense: He and his allies despised the welfare state in general and the ACA in particular, and saw Trump’s presidency as a final chance to destroy the hated law before its roots grew too deep. From Trump’s perspective, the move was a fiasco. By dint of…
Read More...How Democrats Backed Themselves Into a Shutdown
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The government shutdown that began at 12:01 a.m. is the sixth such closure in the past three decades. It was easily the most foreseeable. That congressional Democrats would force this confrontation became clear almost from the moment they ducked a clash over spending with Republicans in March. Back then, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer convinced just enough of his members that a government shutdown would empower President Donald Trump to govern even more…
Read More...Feasibility of RIFs around a government shutdown called into question
The Trump administration is taking a more aggressive approach than usual to what would happen in a government shutdown, after a White House memo Wednesday night told agencies to plan for further reductions in force if government funding lapses early next week. But with just days left before a government shutdown, many are questioning the ability for agencies to put together further RIF plans at all, since the reduction-in-force process is typically complicated and time-consuming, often taking months or longer. The new Office of Management and Budget memo, first reported…
Read More...Probe launched into former special counsel Jack Smith
Federal officials have launched an investigation into Jack Smith, the former special counsel who was investigating President Trump ahead of the election. The Washington Times stories: White House
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