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TSA head who oversaw pipeline cyber rules pushed out by Trump
This post first appeared on Next Gov. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ Transportation Security Administration chief David Pekoske has been asked to step down from his role by the Trump transition team and will be replaced by a new official in the administration, according to multiple reports. An internal memo circulated by multiple outlets said that Pekoske’s time as TSA (more...)
What Trump’s inaugural address means for federal employees
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ Donald Trump returned to the presidency on Monday with a promise to “immediately restore the integrity, competency and loyalty of America’s government.” The president is expected to take many executive actions in the coming days. Some that will affect federal employees include freezing government hiring, as he did (more...)
Trump to again freeze federal hiring
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ President Trump will institute a government hiring freeze that will include some exceptions, his team announced just after his swearing in. The order is expected to take effect immediately after Trump signs it Monday, his first day in office, and mirrors action Trump took upon taking office in (more...)
She was the first Black woman to run the U.S. budget. She doesn’t want to be the last.
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ After a 15-year career as a staffer on the Appropriations Committee in the House of Representatives, Shalanda Young became President Joe Biden’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, the first Black woman to serve in this role. She formally took office in March 2022, after serving (more...)
Trump's Day 1 border actions will empower DHS staff and deploy military
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ President-elect Trump will immediately take action to empower federal personnel to detain and deport migrants in and crossing into the country, an incoming White House official said just ahead of inauguration in detailing some of the 200 executive actions Trump plans to issue on his first day in (more...)
Tracking Trump’s national-security conflicts of interest
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ It is a quirk of constitutional checks-and-balances interpretation that presidents are generally exempt from laws that seek to prevent U.S. officials from acting in their own interests instead of the country’s. Still, modern chief executives have customarily taken steps to reduce such conflicts of interest—particularly to keep the (more...)
What to know about executive orders as Trump prepares to take office
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ President-elect Donald Trump is expected to sign a long list of executive orders shortly after entering office for his second term. At the top of Trump’s stated priorities is scaling back immigration, and many fear he could also scale back diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, as well as (more...)
IRS chief to step down upon Trump's inauguration, well before his term expires
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ The head of the Internal Revenue Service will step down after President-elect Trump’s inauguration on Monday, he told employees on Friday, despite his term not expiring until 2027. IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told staff his early departure would be the best thing for the agency given that Trump (more...)
Senior executive standards get first update in more than 15 years
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ The Office of Personnel Management is updating the qualifications and characteristics used to select and assess members of the Senior Executive Service for the first time in more than 15 years. OPM’s updates to the SES executive core qualifications, announced Wednesday, will take effect on July 1. Acting (more...)
The civil service system is a barrier to effective talent management
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. <![CDATA[ Former President Carter’s recent death reminds us that it’s been almost 50 years since the Civil Service Reform Act was passed. Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s chief domestic adviser, told Federal News Network in 2018, that at the time the president thought that federal employees needed “more flexibility, more incentives, (more...)