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The Trump administration is cracking down on remote employment. It wants federal employees in their offices, but for federally employed military spouses, it looks like they'll be able to continue working remotely here with some questions they're asking and a few answers, Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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For miners people who dig things out of the earth finding the healthcare and other providers they may need can present challenges. Now the Mine Safety and Health Administration part of the Labor Department has organized an online platform for miners. Joining me with the details statistician William Drexler and management and program analyst Joe Mackowiak.

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The Department of Government Efficiency has focused heavily on the U.S. Agency for International Development. It sent thousands of employees home and took the agency name off the door. Now USAID contractors are left with lots of unpaid invoices. We get the picture now from the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau.

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U.S. air bases in the Indo-pacific region are too vulnerable to attacks by China. China has been steadily hardening its own air bases. The result is a sharp military imbalance in China's favor. That's the jist of a detailed study by the conservative Husdon Institute. More now from senior fellow Tim Walton.

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The Office of Personnel Management is giving agencies a brighter green light to make their chief information officers political appointees. OPM is telling agencies they can reclassify the Senior Executive Service positions to general instead of career reserve. Federal News Network's executive editor, Jason Miller joins me now with what it all means.

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Agencies have been pushing to recruit more cyber security and tech talent in recent years, but now hiring managers have concerns that the Trump administration's move to cut federal employees altogether will kneecap the cyber workforce efforts. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday has the latest.

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Pretty much everywhere you look, citizens have low confidence in democratic governments to deliver results. Could AI help? My next guest has looked into this extensively and finds the potential is there. Valerie Wirtschafter is a fellow at Brookings, and she joins me now.

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While the Trump administration formulates new policy for artificial intelligence, Congress has created its own agenda. As we reported earlier, the last session's House Task Force on AI produced a long list of policy and legislative ideas. Many of them have to do with health and health care. Attorneys at Brownstein have distilled them out. Joining me now, senior policy counsel Deema Tarazi and senior policy advisor Adam Steinmetz.

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Avian flu can't hurt Congress. Members are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Democrats are incensed at President Trump but don't seem to have a plan of their own. Republicans seems to sit back and watch the show. So what are they doing? We turn to WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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