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The Trump administration is calling on teleworking federal employees to return to the office full time, but its leaders at the General Services Administration are on a mission to dramatically cut the amount of federal office space that agencies have. That's raising some questions of how agencies will accommodate more workers coming into the office. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman is here with more.

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The Office of Personnel Management clarifies its return to Office guidance for Federally Employed military spouses after public pushback on the initial guidance from military families and lawmakers federal news networks. Anastasia Obis is here with more to tell us all about it.

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Whether you took the deferred resignation offer from the White House or not, everyone is paying attention to its implementation. In an attempt to provide a softer and easier way to reduce the federal workforce, this is not necessarily a new idea for doing so, it's just never been attempted on this scale before. To get some more background on it we welcome back to the program Elaine Kamarck, Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution.

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The Federal Executive Institute, a long standing Leadership Development Center for

federal executives, is closing down following President Donald Trump's executive order signed on Monday. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis is here with more.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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The Air Force says there's a new unity of effort when it comes to bringing new officers into the service. In December, officials created the new Air Force accession center, bringing the Air Force recruiting service and the home center for officer accessions under one Commander. The Commander is Brigadier General Christopher Amrhein. He talked with Federal News Network's Jared Serbu about the reasons for the reorganization and what it's achieved so far.

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The Trump administration's 180 from DEI or Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives seems to have leaked into the private sector as well. One reason, a change of emphasis in the kinds of cases the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been tasked with going after. With a change in leadership and policy, what can we expect to see from the commission? For some insight, I spoke with Carol Warner, editor of the publication HRMorning.

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the first three weeks of the Trump administration's shock and awe approach to reorder the government contractors have been unusually quiet. From the canceling of contracts to efforts to reduce the federal workforce. Industry and their associations have not publicly vocalized any broad concerns or offered any true opposition to U.S. DOGE services. In his reporters notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about why contractors are laying low for now.

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Events of the last few weeks have caused federal managers heads to spin. The resignation offer, the closure of agencies, the new policy schedule. All these developments have sparked lawsuits. One of the litigants is the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. Joining me with the whats and wherefores, NARFE staff vice president John Hatton.

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