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- Postal Service hoped downsizing would save moreIn today’s Federal Newscast, USPS’ Inspector General finds the agency only saved $91 million in 2016 and 2017 after consolidating more than 200 facilities, well below it’s goal.
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6 min - OPM wants to let agency leaders administer direct-hire authoritiesIn today’s Federal Newscast on the Federal News Network, the Office of Personnel Management is changing regulations on direct-hire authorities.
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5 min - CBO: Giving Trump authority to devise re-org plan would not impact budgetIn today's Federal Newscast, the Congressional Budget Office assessed a bill which would give the Trump administration expedited authority to reorganize the federal government. The administration would need to report regularly to the Congress on the status, costs, and savings of any such reorganization and CBO would still need to prepare a financial analysis of any plan submitted to Congress under the bill.
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4 min - FERC Chairman resigns due to health concernsIn today's Federal Newscast, Neil Chatterjee will take over as chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, after Kevin McIntyre announced he was stepping down due to a "health setback."
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5 min - GSA moving forward with automated contract oversight processIn today's Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration is fixing a shortcoming of the acquisition oversight process by using artificial intelligence.
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5 min - Dozens of states express interest in hosting new locations for two USDA bureausIn today’s Federal Newscast, 35 states and 136 different groups express interest in hosting the new locations for the Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture bureaus.
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5 min - Another Navy Commander sentenced in ‘Fat Leonard’ caseIn today’s Federal Newscast, former Navy commander Troy Amundson gets more than two years in prison for accepting gifts from the now infamous contractor Leonard Francis.
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4 min - New playbook to help agencies battle fraudIn today’s Federal Newscast, the CFO Council and Bureau of the Fiscal Services creates a new playbook with information to help agencies reduce the risk of fraud.
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4 min - White House touts savings from deregulatory actionsIn today’s Federal Newscast, the White House says its regulatory reform efforts saved $23 billion in fiscal 2018.
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4 min - Move to replace Interior Department’s Inspector General leaves some troubledIn today’s Federal Newscast, the Project on Government Oversight calls the move to replace Acting Interior Inspector General Mary Kendall with a political appointee “puzzling.”
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About Federal Newscast
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THE FEDERAL NEWSCAST, (length about seven minutes), is a daily Monday through Friday, high-information compilation of nine 40-second news stories and news packages,…
generated by the non-partisan, non-political, private-sector team of reporters at Federal News Network. Federal News Radio Producer/Newscasters Eric White and Michele Sandiford assemble and read the stories on the THE FEDERAL DRIVE with TERRY GERTON, the weekday morning-drive program, heard from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. (ET) on the Federal News Network app (and website), on any smart speaker, and on WFED 1500 AM, a 50,000-watt 'Class A' powerhouse radio station in the nation's capital. The podcast is most popular with FNN's audience of highly educated listeners, who conveniently access THE FEDERAL NEWSCAST, 24/7, on any podcast platform . Listen to it (as just mentioned) or read the stories each weekday morning at FederalNewsNetwork.com, where the news items contain hyperlinks for those who want more information on a given story.
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