Two executive orders (EO) issued by President Donald Trump on Tuesday are directing the Treasury Department to modernize and centralize its payment system in an attempt to root out Federal fraud and waste.   […]

President Donald Trump sent a March 20 memorandum to Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Acting Director Charles Ezell that delegates authority to OPM – the Federal government’s human resources (HR) agency – to fire Federal workers who have cleared their probationary employee status. […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) on March 18 that seeks to shift some responsibilities for risk management from the Federal government to state and local governments through the creation of a new “National Resilience Strategy” and a review of government’s critical infrastructure and preparedness policies.   […]

Two prominent House Democrats said today they are using a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in their continuing battle to drill down into how the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) is operating across Federal government agencies.   […]

President Donald Trump’s blizzard of 18 Biden-era executive order cancellations on March 14 includes orders that had raised the minimum wage for Federal contractors to $15 per hour, and created registered apprenticeship opportunities within the Federal government including for cybersecurity positions.   […]

A Federal district court judge in Rhode Island ruled today to approve a preliminary injunction that blocks the Trump administration from pursuing a freeze on trillions of dollars of congressionally approved grant and loan funding.    […]

President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night called for Congress to undo the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act approved by lawmakers in 2022 to, among other aims, provide up to $52 billion in funding to bolster the U.S. semiconductor industry.  […]

A member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) stepped down last week, leaving the board with only a narrow quorum to act as its case load quickly mounts following the Trump administration’s moves to quickly reduce the Federal workforce.   […]

The Trump administration is seeking feedback on its artificial intelligence action plan while Congress plans its next move in AI regulation – which may include propping up a new AI task force and codifying the AI Safety Institute.  […]

Federal workers and Democratic lawmakers rallied today to protest President Trump’s deferred resignation offer to government employees, calling the campaign an unlawful attack on the civil service and condemning the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – which has served as a tip on the spear of the administration’s job-cutting efforts – as more chaotic than effective.  […]

A group of Democratic state attorneys general is asking a Federal district court judge in Rhode Island to fully enforce the court’s temporary restraining order (TRO) issued on Jan. 31 that blocked President Trump’s attempted freeze of most Federal grant and loan funding.   […]

Elon Musk’s team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is going to work with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to give the country’s air traffic control (ATC) systems an upgrade, according to a series of posts to X on Wednesday.  […]

House and Senate Democratic lawmakers put up a united front today against the apparent seizure and possible shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by President Donald and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, which has put billions in humanitarian aid at risk.   […]

A Federal district court judge in Rhode Island is continuing to weigh the legality of the Trump administration’s move earlier this week to freeze trillions in congressionally approved Federal funding despite the administration’s action on Wednesday to rescind the order that authorized the freeze effort.    […]

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) declared an abrupt reversal today of its Jan. 27 order to freeze trillions of dollars worth of Federal grant and loan program payments after the short-lived order created nearly universal confusion over and drew opposition from several states who successfully petitioned a Federal judge to block the order from taking effect.   […]

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is asking President Trump to put in place a strong chief information officer (CIO) at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to improve the agency’s IT and cybersecurity functions.    […]

President Donald Trump has issued executive orders to bolster the cryptocurrency market and create a working group to develop a comprehensive plan including “regulatory and legislative proposals” for digital assets.  […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is directing agencies to revise their telework policies and start arrangements for Federal employees to work onsite full-time by the end of the day tomorrow.  […]

President Trump pledged on Jan. 21 to help facilitate electric power and other assistance to a consortium of artificial intelligence (AI) tech firms who said this week they plan to invest $100 billion in AI infrastructure as part of what they are calling The Stargate Project.   […]

President Trump’s slew of energy-related executive orders issued on Monday have declared a national energy emergency that aims in part to juice the United States’ natural energy supplies to help meet power demands required to support emerging technologies.   […]

After taking office today, President Donald Trump announced that his top priorities include bolstering the nation’s energy sector – which could help boost the power grid’s capacity for artificial intelligence.   […]

An executive order issued May 1 by President Trump declares a national emergency regarding the threat posed by “the unrestricted acquisition or use” in the U.S. of bulk-power system electric equipment made by “foreign adversaries,” and lays the groundwork for the government to ban the use of that equipment going forward. […]