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 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 author writes that the federal government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers among charitable organizations its employees can support with their donations.
• 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 CommentSheriffs in a county in Texas are putting in extra overtime because of security mandated by the TSA.
• 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 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.
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