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The Health and Human Services seal on a door of the office building in downtown Washington DC on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Robb Hill for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Fewer than 1% of HHS’s AI uses are ‘high impact.’ It stands out.

The department again reported few uses slated for increased risk management practices, and demoted several systems it previously determined could have significant impact on the public.
An organizational flag flies outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 as demonstrators gather to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

Roughly 50,000 could lose federal workforce protections under new OPM rule

While the Trump administration labels the change as an “accountability” measure, worker advocates blasted the rule as a ploy to make nonpartisan employees easier to fire and…
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Jeffrey Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration, participates in a fireside chat with Jerry McGinn, the Center for the Industrial Base at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Feb. 4, 2026. (Scoop News Group photo by Miranda Nazzaro)

GSA procurement leader says ‘community readiness’ poses challenge to acquisition overhaul

It follows a 30% reduction in the acquisition workforce at the General Services Administration over the past year.
Members of the American Federation of Government Employees arrive for the “Rally to Save the Civil Service” in Upper Senate Park outside the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Education IT, tech employees lose union protections

The move against OCIO and FSA CTO staffers follows a March 2025 Trump executive order barring collective bargaining agreements for nearly two-thirds of the federal workforce.
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