Author: Joe Davidson

Washington Post – Politics:

The nation risks losing wildland firefighters because a pay hike, signed into law by President Biden in November as part of his massive Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, has not been delivered.

Washington Post – Politics:

The Buffalo shooting highlighted the difficulty of preventing hate crimes in a nation still rife with ethnic tension exacerbated, many anti-hate crime groups say, by former president Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric.

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Federal contract service workers have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in pay and benefits and are at risk of losing more because of bureaucratic fumbling.

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After a litany of abuse coverup allegations and pressure from activists and Congress, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is terminating the Border Patrol’s Critical Incident Teams.

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Public Service Recognition Week will show appreciation to public servants, including 2 million federal employees, with Presidential Rank Awards and the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America medals.

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A Social Security report found the agency underpaid 14,470 student beneficiaries by $59.5 million between January 2003 and May 2020 because of agency errors.

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Garilynn Smith won a complaint against the Pentagon after the Army denied her a promotion as she publicly protested the desecration of her husband’s partial remains in a Virginia landfill, a federal labor and management panel declared last week.

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As President Biden praised an executive order for labor agreements last week, an Associated Builders and Contractors letter accused him of “taking a dangerously partisan approach.”

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The Government Accountability Office’s new report on “Trends Affecting Government and Society” identifies a dozen areas of greatest national concern where “GAO can better be prepared to respond.”