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Foreign aid starts out as appropriated dollars. The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development turn the dollars into contracts. Which means the Trump administration's pullback on foreign assistance and its near total shutdown of US aid, mean contractors are feeling the pinch. Joining me with more, two attorneys with long federal experience. From Jenner and Block, Ian Moss and David Robbins.

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Federal employees now have more time to consider that deferred resignation offer from the Office of Personnel Management, and depending on which agency you work for, the deal looks a lot different than what the Office of Personnel Management first advertised. Lots going on here. Agencies exempted some of their employees at the last minute. Other agencies say the offer still applies to everybody. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman joins us with more.

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The Trump administration appears unlikely to see the workforce reductions it's hoping for through its deferred resignation program, at least not now. The program is also on pause after a federal court issued a temporary restraining order yesterday, but the Trump administration is still pressing forward on its promise to cut down that federal workforce. Agencies are bracing for what's likely coming next, a reduction in force. Here with the latest, Federal News Network's Drew Friedman and Jared Serbu.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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After calling it a ball of worms no apple left, the Trump administration hit the U.S. Agency for International Development with a wrecking ball. Has it strayed from its original purpose? My next guest can offer some perspective. We spent five years as U-S aid administrator during the George W. Bush administration. Now a professor and director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at Texas A & M, Andrew Natsios joins me now.

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The Trump administration wants to make the government more efficient. It even established something called the Department of Government Efficiency. But that executive order for everyone to return to the office my next guest says that could work against efficiency. Retired public administration professor Bob Tobias has more to say.

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For federal employees who saw some appeal in the Trump administration's deferred

resignation program, today is the last day to hit that reply button on the mass email from the Office of Personnel Management. Or maybe not, a new lawsuit challenging the program asks a federal judge to extend that deadline, and not just that, but also order OPM to start over and answer some of the legal and workforce planning questions still lingering. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been covering the litigation. He joins me now.

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You might not be surprised to find that members of the American Foreign Service Association object to dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The association represents nearly two thousand foreign aid officers. Joining me with more of what's going on, the association's president, Thomas Yazdgerdi.

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