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The Feds Paid $9.5B to Keep Workers Home in 2025. Was it Actually a Bargain?

A new GAO audit shows the U.S. paid $9.5 billion for federal workers not to work in 2025 — and the savings numbers don't add up.

Latin Times

FBI Agent Said 'I'm Not Kidding' About Opening Criminal Matter Over Musk's 'Five Things' Email

A released 2025 email shows former FBI agent Kevin Gounaud proposed a criminal matter over the government's "Five Things" message and Elon Musk's role, without evidence prosecutors acted on it.

International Business Times UK

India is growing at 7.8%. Should you believe it?

Koi khabar aayi na pasand to end badal denge – Gulzar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Sunidhi Chauhan and Clinton Cerejo, Ek Thi Daayan, 2013.

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Exclusive: The man leading Trump’s RTO charge for government workers says he filmed a video in front of a blank wall to avoid work-from-home suspicion

“I was in my bedroom,” OPM director Scott Kupor said in an all-hands meeting this week. “I was trying to find something that was not recognizable as being in my house, basically.”

Fortune

2026 administrative state legislation: 38 states enacted 225 bills

This edition of Checks and Balances features highlights from Ballotpedia’s 2026 Administrative State Legislative Tracker report, and the transfer of most federal employee appeals from the Merit Systems Protection Board to the Office of Personnel Management

Ballotpedia

Trump's New Rule Expands Grounds To Fire Federal Workers Over Late Tax Filing and NDA Violations

The Trump administration's new rule expands criteria for dismissing federal employees, covering issues like tax filing, refusing to comply with NDAs, resource misuse, and more.

International Business Times UK

'Stupid, Costly, and Deadly': Trump Admin Blasted for Spending $11 Billion to Pay Federal Workers Not to Work

A new Public Citizen report says Donald Trump's Deferred Resignation Program paid nearly 140,000 US federal workers at least $11 billion not to work.

International Business Times UK

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White House issues executive order implementing Schedule Policy/Career

Highlights from this edition of Checks and Balances include an executive order implementing a new job classification for about 8,000 federal workers, and a gubernatorial lawsuit in Kentucky against the state Senate and several cabinet officials.

Ballotpedia

Trump Just Pulled the Rug Out From Under Thousands of Federal Workers With a Shocking New Executive Order

Trump tried something similar during his first term with a plan called Schedule F.

The Mary Sue

Trump Strips Protections From 8,000 Federal Workers, Allowing Firings for 'Subversion' of Directives

Donald Trump has signed an executive order, which has stripped away long‑standing civil service protections from staff in key policy roles.

International Business Times UK

Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 highly paid federal workers

Order strips job protections from workers earning up to about $200,000 a year and deemed to be ‘influencing’ policy

The Guardian - US

Trump Administration Considering NDAs for Federal Workers to Curb Leaks

The Office of Personnel Management said in a Federal Register notice that it is seeking public comment on a draft NDA that federal agencies could use for both new and current employees.

International Business Times

Trump's New NDA Proposal Could Punish Federal Workers Who Speak to Journalists — Here's How

Trump administration's proposed NDAs for federal staff could restrict press access; civil liberties groups warn of threats to transparency and press freedom.

International Business Times UK

Trump administration proposes NDAs for federal employees to stop leaks

The Trump administration is requesting comment on its plans to further crack down on what it calls the release of unauthorized information, as part of its continuing focus on leaks to the media

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The Guardian - US

White House proposes NDAs for federal workers to crack down on leaks to journalists

OPM releases draft NDA designed for federal agencies to use with new and existing employees

The Guardian - US

Federal workers struggle to find roles a year after Trump cuts: ‘I’ve applied to over 250 jobs’

Current and former government employees say they’re facing a tough job market over a year on from sweeping cuts

Fortune

The Trump administration is blurring the public and private sector workforce, and OPM director Scott Kupor won’t rule out conflict of interest risks

“We got to balance potential risks with potential upside,” Kupor said of potential conflicts of interest in government. “I think you can manage that quite clearly.”

Fortune

The federal government shed 385,000 employees last year. Now the Trump administration is on a blitz to hire Gen Z workers

Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Fortune the government needs a pipeline of young workers to sustain itself.

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Trump just finalized a ‘political purge’ rule, gutting whistleblower protection and giving him the power to fire 50,000 workers

They can now be fired 'at will.’

The Guardian - US

Trump administration issues rule that makes it easier to fire federal workers

New rule would strip job safeguards for 50,000 federal employees and change how whistleblowers are protected

Axios

Trump admin green lights rule making it easier to fire thousands of federal employees

The rule would impact an estimated 50,000 workers.

The Independent UK

Federal workers annual charity drive sees 40% drop in donations as layoffs under Trump left thousands out of work

The Combined Federal Campaign has raised over $9 billion from federal workers since the 1960s

Newslaundry

WhatsApp university blames foreign investors for the rupee’s slide – like blaming fever on a thermometer

On December 16, the rupee crossed the 91-per-dollar mark to touch an all-time low of 91.09. As soon as this happened a joke started going around on WhatsApp: USD (+1) = INR (+91). Finally ISD Codes and Exchange rate matched.

The Independent UK

Trump offers six-figure wages to work in his new ‘Tech Force’ — and you don’t need a degree or experience

The “elite” team of specialists will be tasked with modernizing the the vast bureaucracy within the federal government.

Euronews

The US just launched a new ‘Tech Force’ to hire AI talent. Here’s what to know

The talent development programme aims to close ‘critical skills gaps’ within US government agencies by hiring tech talent for two-year assignments.

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