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Federal budget cuts ground Air Force aircraft
Tags: budget , budget 2014 , Air Force , Barack Obama , DoD
Analysis: Pay, benefits, O&M will swallow entire DoD budget by 2024
Absent structural changes, the combination of 10-year budget caps Congress has already approved and rising growth in personnel costs mean DoD would be able to sign paychecks, administer healthcare benefits and not much more.
Tags: workforce , DoD , budget , 2014 budget , sequestration , Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments , Todd Harrison , Jared Serbu
Bill would tie Congressional pay to spending cuts
Democratic Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton says she'll introduce a bill next week that would subject Congressional salaries to any future automatic, across-the-board cuts like those that took effect last month.
Tags: Eleanor Holmes Norton , budget , sequestration
PRC to analyze impact of changing Saturday mail delivery
The U.S. Postal Service continues to insist changes are necessary to help deal with budget woes in the face of congressional resistance. The Postal Service also is accelerating the closure of 53 mail processing plants.
Tags: management , budget , PRC , Gerry Connolly , Darrell Issa , Tom Coburn , Larry Frum
Veterans fight changes to disability payments
Tags: Veterans Affairs , Congressional Budget Office , Jeff Miller , Bernie Sanders
Congress urged to drop online financial reporting for senior execs
A new report says a law requiring the online posting of senior federal executives' financial information would likely impinge on employees' privacy and wouldn't do much to deter conflicts of interest. The National Academy of Public Administration was tasked by Congress with studying the STOCK Act — short for "Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge" — in response to concerns about privacy and identify theft.
Tags: NAPA , STOCK Act , management , insider trading , financial disclosure , oversight , workforce , SES , Jack Moore
Coburn calls on OPM to fire feds 'paid to do nothing'
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has written to Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry, saying the office should take steps to offload federal workers and contractors who don't show up for work, aren't performing official duties or "are simply not working at all." In the letter, Coburn, the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said doing so could prevent the need to furlough critical employees under sequestration.
Tags: Senate , OPM , Tom Coburn , John Berry , official time , standby pay , furloughs , workforce
DoD releases more details on revised furlough timeline
Furlough notices will now be sent to employees in early May. Actual furloughs will begin in mid-to-late June, placing most Defense civilians on unpaid leave roughly one day per week for the final seven pay periods of the fiscal year.
Tags: DoD , sequestration , workforce , Chuck Hagel , Martin Dempsey , Robert Hale , Jared Serbu , furloughs
Obama to release 2014 budget proposal on April 10
Under the law, the President was supposed to submit a budget by Feb. 4. White House aides said deliberations over spending and sequestration in the past few months delayed the release of Obama's blueprint.
Tags: 2014 budget , Barack Obama , White House
Obama to release his budget outline April 10
Tags: Barack Obama , White House , budget ,
