An elite group of federal employees is set to receive cash bonuses despite this year’s automatic budget cuts, according to a Senate subcommittee report issued Friday.
• Leave a CommentOver a four-year period, the tiny minority (1 percent) of the federal workforce who fill these supervisory positions received $340 million in cash bonuses – on top of annual salaries ranging from $119,000 to $179,000, the Senate Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight found.
• Leave a CommentAuthorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.
• Leave a CommentResearch by The Independent reveals that budget cuts at US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have sharply increased airport queues, with the worst delays in the “Sunshine State” of Florida.
• Leave a CommentThe Obama administration yesterday notified Congress that it was prepared to take a series of steps to free up about $260 billion so it can keep paying the nation’s bills once a temporary suspension in the government’s debt ceiling lapses this weekend.
• Leave a CommentThe furloughs of 566 civilian employees at Ellsworth Air Force Base will have short-term impacts but probably will not hamper the base or the regional economy in the long term, according to officials.
• Leave a CommentThe Internal Revenue Service scandal couldn’t have come at a worse time for the nation’s 2 million federal workers, who are desperate to end furloughs and get their first raise in three years.
• Leave a CommentFrom the time a federal worker files the appropriate paperwork, it takes these Personnel Management workers an average of 156 days, or roughly five months, to certify the retirement.
• Leave a CommentA woman says she was repeatedly told by TSA agents she couldn’t get out of her wheelchair and walk through the metal detector – even though she told them several times she was capable of doing that with a cane.
• Leave a CommentA group of activists being represented by the American Center for Law and Justice are preparing to sue the federal government for the practice of targeting Tea Party groups.
• Leave a CommentIn Huntsville, AL, with Redstone Arsenal serving as home to less than 1,000 active duty military as compared to 17,000 DOD civilians, the economic impact from furloughs could be devastating to workers, businesses and the community.
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