All posts tagged "Congress"

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  Trump drops forest centre cuts plan

  The Trump administration has reversed its decision to close or outsource US Forest Service training centres, following bipartisan opposition from Congress. Under the plans, responsibility for the Job Corps Civilian

  • Posted June 26, 2019
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  An uncertain take-off: why US officials are reaching for the parachutes

  The US government is back at work – but the five-week funding gap has left its mark. Exploring how the state came to a stop, Eileen Guo finds that the

  • Posted January 31, 2019
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  Senate defies Trump’s civil service pay freeze

  A spending package including a 1.9% pay rise for US federal employees in 2019 was approved almost unanimously by the Senate last week, running counter to President Trump’s wish to

  • Posted August 8, 2018
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  New figures show falling numbers of black leaders in US civil service

  The number of African American officials employed at the highest ranks within the United States civil service is dwindling, a recent report has revealed. The figures were contained in the

  • Posted April 11, 2018
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  US budget deal set to protect civil servants from further pay cuts

  Public sector unions have welcomed the new spending agreement signed into law last week, with American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr noting that the longer-term

  • Posted March 29, 2018
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  US agencies’ ‘save to spend’ IT freedoms hit budget deadlock

  The US White House has released guidance for agencies on how they can raise funds under the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act, though parts of the timeline are uncertain due

  • Posted March 12, 2018
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  US officials’ shut-down pay bill passed amidst confused signals

  Last week’s bill ending the US government shut-down has confirmed that federal civil servants will be paid for the three-day ‘furlough’ of 20-22 January – but hopes that officials would

  • Posted January 28, 2018
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  Republican legislators take new powers over public spending

  American Republicans have reinstated an obscure rule from 1876 that allows them to target specific government programmes and individual federal workers for cuts. The Holman Rule, which was scrapped by

  • Posted January 10, 2017
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