Two horses of the so-called government tri-fecta the House and Senate, that is find themselves deep in the business of the new administration. The Trump administration. For what's immediately ahead, we turn to Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Two top Department of Homeland Security executives were unexpectedly dismissed by the new Trump administration earlier this week. Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan was relieved of her duties Monday night, and David Pekosky, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, was also let go Monday morning. We get more now from Federal News Net…

For the new Congress, an A-I proposal from the last Congress. Federal Drive with Tom Temin For the new Congress, an A-I proposal from the last Congress DoD moves to improve maritime security in contested southeast Asia The Trump opening agenda is taking most of Congress's time now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

The last Congress spent some solid effort to create a set of principles and recommendations for dealing with artificial intelligence. Members of the bipartisan task force on AI want to ensure U.S. leadership, while mitigating the threats to privacy and safety. Task force member Don Beyer, who represents Virginia's eighth district. Learn more about …

President Donald Trump has issued more than two dozen executive orders in his first couple of days in office. Many of them will impact the federal workforce. One executive action, for instance, orders a federal hiring freeze at federal agencies. Another tells agencies to return their federal employees to work at the office. We get more now from Fed…

A new industry and government consortium has joined the federal scene. This one is devoted to maritime security in Southeast Asia, or MARSEC. Joining me with who's in it and what they plan to do, the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for south and southeast Asia, Laura Updegrove. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoi…

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin One crucial commission asks Congress for a raise How much of Biden regulatory agenda will survive under Trump? Contractors and agencies alike await a new Trump reality Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesPor Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

If you think the tax code is complicated, try checking out campaign finance laws. They're administered by the Federal Election Commission. Late last year, the FEC submitted a long list of legislative proposals for the 119th Congress to take up. Here with a summary, the commission chair, Ellen Weintraub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca…

Voters decisively last rejected a Democratic successor to the Biden administration. That didn't stop Biden's team from unleashing a small storm of regulations in its last couple of months. For highlights of the so-called Fall 2024 Unified Agenda and how much of it will evaporate under the Trump administration we turn to the George Washington Univer…

That Department of Government Efficiency, the DOGE faced a slew of legal battles. Just minutes into the Trump administration, the largest federal employee union and several nonprofits asked to join Trump's external government efficiency commission. So far, they got no response. The groups say DOGE isn't meeting transparency and ethics requirements …

President Trump spent his first day in office dealing with immigration and energy policy undoing as much of the previous agenda as he could. The less obvious changes like where to substantially cut government spending will come later. Whatever happens will eventually get around to contractors. My next guest says that if past is prologue, it makes s…

The General Services Administration has new leadership in place on this the first full day of the second Trump administration. The new officials say they want to recommit GSA to its founding purpose, ensuring governmentwide efficiency and maximizing value for American taxpayers. Federal News Network's executive editor Jason Miller joins me now with…

The General Services Administration says the federal government owns more office space than it needs, and it's on a mission to downsize its national portfolio. The plan takes inventories of federal buildings in need of upgrades and which properties it ought to sell. Decisions often come down to vacancy rates or the cost to fix up a building for mor…

In the final days of his administration, President Joe Biden has signed a new cybersecurity executive order. If it sticks around, the directive, would set new requirements for federal agencies and contractors. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday joins me with a look. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Every administration tries to align federal agency budgets with its policy goals. That's not easy in a government with two million employees and countless departments, agencies, bureaus and offices. My next guest has been working this very challenge for the last four years. Until Monday, at least, she's the deputy director for budget at the Office …

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin How the Biden administration tried to align budgets with policies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesPor Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

On Capitol Hill, tensions continue to rise over the use of federal telework. Lawmakers on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee raised questions just yesterday about how telework impacts productivity, customer service, Workforce Recruitment and many more things. This all comes just days ahead of President Elect Donald Trump's inaugura…

The Defense Department struggles to test buy and field emerging technology quickly, nothing new there. New would be contractors often find defense procurement complex and opaque. Well, now members of the Defense Innovation Board say the Pentagon needs to expand the Defense Innovation Unit if it's to solve these problems. We get the latest from Fede…

The DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency has vowed to help the Trump administration reduce the federal headcount. My next guest says the DOGE might be overlooking another source of savings. Government contractors, who outnumber federal employees. Danielle Brian is executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, and she joins me now.…

A grant program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aims to help resilience of coastal cities and towns. It will hand more than 54 million dollars to four of what it calls accelerators. The accelerators will in turn make grants to small businesses developing technologies for things like renewable energy and hazard mitigation. Joi…

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin A NOAA grant program aims at coastal resiliency There's one big population the Department of Government Efficiency might be overlooking What a time to be alive with a hundred new executive orders coming Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Federal employees, and to some extent all public servants, are wondering precisely what the next few days an months will bring. Lots of questions of a practical nature, like when will new Social Security benefits flow under repeal of old limitations. And, what happens Monday when Donald Trump re-enters the oval office. We get some informed speculat…

The coming Trump administration has promised to institute all sorts of efficiencies in the government. Now a bill from Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, would do just that. The Forged Act focuses on Defense procurement. For analysis of what's in it, we turn to the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau.…

During her three plus years as administrator of the General Services Administration, Robin Carnahan kept one idea front and center. Government is a service provider. There's no better place to lead that effort than the GSA. As Carnahan's time at GSA comes to an end on Monday, she says the agency is in a better place than it was four years ago. Fede…

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin What the tech industry wants from the new administration and Congress Immigration courts miss a crucial metric for tracking immigrants When termination for convenience becomes inconvenient Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesPor Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

The U.S. border chaos is mirrored to some extent in the court system that deals with immigration. A congressional audit has found that the Justice Department which operates immigration courts lacks data on whether non-citizens have shown up for their mandatory hearings. The case management system of the Executive Office for Immigration Review doesn…