Pact reached to avert government shutdown through Dec. 20
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top House lawmaker announced Tuesday that Congress will pass a governmentwide temporary spending bill to keep the government running through Dec. 20, forestalling a government...
View ArticleShutdown before Christmastime less likely, but still not comforting to agencies
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Congress has agreed on a continuing resolution that...
View ArticleHouse passes CR to keep govt open until Dec. 20, guarantee military pay raise
Update: The House passed the continuing resolution through Dec. 20 with a 231-192 vote. The bill will now proceed to the Senate. The President will need to sign a bill before midnight on Nov. 21 to...
View ArticlePlanning advice for worst-case budget scenario at federal agencies
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Congress is about to stretch the continuing resolution...
View ArticleSenate passes stopgap spending bill, averting shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-held Senate passed a temporary government-wide spending bill that would keep federal agencies up and running through Dec. 20 and avert a government shutdown after...
View ArticleAnother shutdown, another recession?
Could the next government shutdown end the record 10-year bull market and trigger another recession? It may not be long until we find out, like less than a month from now. Congress and the White House...
View ArticleGovernment shutdown threat pushed moves another month
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. This much we do know. If there’s a government shutdown,...
View ArticleSen. Lankford: Yearlong continuing resolution to avert shutdown ‘terrible...
When it comes to avoiding wasteful spending in government, avoiding government shutdowns stands out as some of the lowest-hanging fruit. That’s why Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), a member of the Senate...
View ArticleContinuing resolution keeps federal contractors on edge before holidays
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Black Friday has come and gone. So has cyber Monday, but...
View ArticleAttorneys detail exactly how many feds are owed damages from 2013 shutdown
Six years after the 2013 government shutdown, and 14 days ahead of a threat of another one, attorneys have at last determined just how many federal employees are owed damages from a union lawsuit....
View ArticleAhead of Dec. 20 threat, judge considers whether NTEU shutdown case should...
With the threat of another government shutdown just two weeks away, a federal district court is considering whether a series of legal challenges from the National Treasury Employees Union on the last...
View ArticleZero pay raise, shutdown: What’s Santa got for you?
For the second year in a row more than a million federal workers aren’t sure whether they’ll be forced to come to work or be locked out of their offices, either way without pay, over the...
View ArticleCongress has two big deadlines ahead of Christmas
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Now Congress has two pre-Christmas deadlines. Funding...
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Federal employees score new shutdown protections, relocation tax relief with...
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed the annual...
View ArticlePrepping for poverty, maybe throw in a recession too?
A year ago this week some long-service, long-suffering federal government workers were prepping for the slim possibility of a government shutdown over Christmas. The worried civil servants live, work...
View ArticleShutdowns: 2020 style
If there’s a government shutdown next year, in late 2020, will air traffic controllers on paid parental leave actually get paid? Or will they have to wait like their coworkers until the shutdown is...
View ArticleBudget deal without shutdown looking more probable
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Can it be that an actual budget deal is met with no...
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Should you be concerned over OMB’s decision that GAO’s antideficiency...
Back in September the Government Accountability Office released a 25-page report to House and Senate leaders describing nine new violations of the Antideficiency Act, some dating back to spending in...
View ArticleCongress agrees to 3.1% federal pay raise in 2020 spending bill
Congress has agreed to a 3.1% federal pay raise for civilian employees next year as part of a broader spending deal that would fund federal agencies for the rest of fiscal 2020. It would also avert...
View Article$1.4T spending package crammed with unrelated provisions
WASHINGTON (AP) — House leaders on Monday unveiled a $1.4 trillion government-wide spending package that’s carrying an unusually large load of unrelated provisions catching a ride on the last train out...
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