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Progress slows on bill to avoid shutdown
Tags: Congress , Paul Ryan , Barack Obama , Harry Reid
Nearly 250 laid off at Wash. Hanford nuclear site
The Department of Energy announced that 235 people will be laid off, and more than 2,500 will be furloughed for several weeks, as a result of automatic federal budget cuts.
Tags: Energy , Hanford , sequestration , furloughs
DoD furloughs to begin April 26, with almost no exceptions
The Pentagon will send furlough notices to civilian employees in the next two weeks. Defense components would not be spared from furloughs, regardless of any other efforts they take to offset sequestration.
Tags: DoD , sequestration , Robert Hale , Susan Yarwood , Jared Serbu , workforce , furloughs
Catchall spending bill advances in Senate
Tags: Senate , CR , sequestration
Senate GOP tells Obama to tone down the attacks
Tags: Barack Obama , Senate , Senate Budget Committee , Patty Murray , Congress , sequestration
2014 budget battle lines drawn around federal pay, benefits
When it comes to the federal workforce, the competing House and Senate budget plans differ greatly in tone and style. But when it comes to making the federal government run more efficiently and finding cost-savings in federal operations, the two plans are more alike than you might think.
Tags: House , Senate , Congress , pay and benefits , retirement , Paul Ryan , Patty Murray , Jack Moore
Senate Democrats push budget through committee
Senate Democrats have pushed a budget through committee that calls for roughly $1 trillion in new tax revenues over the coming decade and increases spending slightly over current projections.
Tags: Senate , Senate Budget Committee , Patty Murray
Sequestration forcing DoD's acquisition programs into 'damage limitation' mode
The Pentagon's acquisition chief said he's planning day-to-day, not year-to-year because of sequestration's indiscriminate cuts and political uncertainty over DoD's budget. In 2014, there will be more opportunities to prioritize, but spending reductions also will lead to cancellation of contracts and downsizing of the military and civilian workforce.
Tags: DoD , acquisition , sequestration , Ashton Carter , Frank Kendall , Jared Serbu , McAleese & Associates , Credit Suisse , industry ,
Agencies suffering reductions in services even before furloughs occur
Employees at TSA, CBP and Bureau of Prisons will no longer be able to work overtime. SSA offers its employees a new round of early retirements to deal with budget shortfalls. AFGE continues to press Congress, White House to stop sequestration.
Tags: workforce , sequestration , management , CBP , TSA , SSA , AFGE , J. David Cox , Bureau of Prisons , Stacy Bodtmann , Shawn Moran , Steve Kofahl , Dale Deshotel , Jason Miller
USDA suspends some ag reports due to budget cuts
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's statistical arm said it won't issue some agricultural reports this year because of automatic federal budget cuts, alarming some in the dairy industry who fear the information void could wreak havoc with milk prices.
Tags: USDA , sequestration , NASS
