The Institute of Museum and Library Services has been around for nearly 30 years. It only has about 75 employees and the Trump administration wants to cut that in half. The move isn't sitting well with libraries who receive federal dollars via the IMLS. For why it's suing to restore the agency, the American Library Association's policy chief Alan Inouye.

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The Office of Personnel Management, like many agencies, is sending its employees back to the office full time. Trouble is OPM has lots of remote employees far from its offices. OPM gave them an ultimatum, relocate within commuting distance of an OPM office, or risk termination. Many employees took the former option, but now OPM faces a steep bill for relocation expenses Federal News Network's Jory Heckman has the latest.

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Defense Secretary, Pete hegseth has directed the termination of $5.1 billion in contracts for it, management and consulting services. At least one external watchdog group says the guidance lacks clarity, gives unrealistic deadlines and contradicts earlier directives Federal News Network's, Anastasia Obis sorts out what's going on.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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The former Interior Department Inspector General. He was also chairman of the Council on the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. Mark Greenblatt received a taunting phone call to his personal cell phone about a month ago as an IG Greenblatt was used to a certain level of negative comments and hate mail. This one went further in this week's federal report. Federal News Network's executive editor, Jason Miller, writes about how Greenblatt's experience is becoming all too common for federal employees and what they can do to protect themselves from harassment.

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In conversation, we often equate the federal government with Washington DC, but a new on-line tool shows just how broadly government operations extend across the country. The Impact Project’s online map shows the distribution of federal employees, facilities, and contracts down to congressional districts, and how the latest firings and contract terminations are affecting local communities. Federal News Network’s Terry Gerton spoke with the founder of the Impact Project, Abby Andre.

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It seems simple enough. Veterans seeking care from community providers external to VA can schedule their own appointments. That's once they get the ok from VA. Now the VA's Office of Inspector General has called for more oversight of the Veteran Self Scheduling system. More now from the director for community care in the office of Audits and Evaluations, Jennifer McDonald.

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Congress and other acquisition policy makers have been pressing the Defense Department to embrace more commercial technologies, literally, for decades. Well now there's a new push, a sweeping executive order issued last week tells DOD to reform its acquisition processes with a first preference for commercial solutions. That was also the theme of a panel Federal News Network's Jared Serbu moderated at last week's Sierra Space conference.

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Prince George's County, Maryland, is one of the three Maryland and Virginia counties, along with Alexandria, that border the District of Columbia. Like the others, it's home to thousands of federal employees who’ve recently lost their jobs because of orders from the Trump Administration. Maryland Congressman Glenn Ivey, whose district includes Prince George's County wants to help. He joined Terry Gerton in studio with plans for a resource fair coming up soon.

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Another executive order, "Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy," is the latest effort by the president to reduce the size of the federal government. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, along with six other independent agencies targeted in this order, must reduce its operations and staff to the minimum ‘required by law’. A recent news story about FMCS sheds some light on why this agency might have made the list. Federal News Network’s Terry Gerton spoke with Investigative Reporter for the Daily Wire, Luke Rosiak, to get more details.

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