All posts tagged "State Department"

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  ‘What did you do last week?’: US federal officials asked to detail their achievements – but agency responses differ

  US federal officials received an email asking them to set out their five major accomplishments in their working week in an escalation of efforts by the Trump administration to reduce

  • Posted February 27, 2025
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  UK accused of ‘treating senior officials with contempt’; US State Department must improve IT recruitment efforts: management & workforce news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed UK government accused of ‘treating senior officials with contempt’ over pay The UK government

  • Posted July 21, 2022
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  Four US State Department aides subpoenaed in investigation into watchdog firing

  House Democrats have subpoenaed four senior aides to secretary of state Mike Pompeo, accusing them of stonewalling an investigation into president Trump’s firing of State Department inspector general Steve Linick.

  • Posted August 5, 2020
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  Trump fires State Department watchdog running Pompeo investigation

  A State Department inspector general believed to be investigating secretary of state Mike Pompeo for potential abuse of office has been sacked by president Trump, raising concerns among both Republican

  • Posted May 19, 2020
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  US officials’ warnings against WHO funding cut leaked

  An internal memo written by US officials and addressed to secretary of state Mike Pompeo warned that cutting funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) would erode America’s global standing,

  • Posted April 21, 2020
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  Trump proposes 1% federal pay rise as US budget published

  President Trump has submitted a plan to Congress for all federal workers to receive a 1% pay rise, effective from 1 January 2021. While this is an improvement on the

  • Posted February 11, 2020
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  US senator warns of government watchdog cuts

  Proposed funding cuts to the budgets of US watchdogs overseeing federal agencies could harm efforts to tackle waste, fraud and abuse, according to a report produced by a senator. Claire

  • Posted August 20, 2018
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  US lawsuits probe alleged bullying of civil servants by Trump administration

  A non-profit watchdog body in the US is suing two federal departments in an attempt to secure information on alleged harassment by the Trump administration of civil servants who’ve worked

  • Posted May 5, 2017
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