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The National Treasury Employees Union last year managed to get itself established as the bargaining unit for attorneys in two Justice Department division. The Civil Rights and Environmental and Natural Resources Division. Earlier this month, attorney Jeffrey Morrison challenged NTEU in an application for review before the Federal Labor Relations Authority. He got free help from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. The Foundation president, Mark Mix, joins me now with details.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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The Homeland Security Department is busy these days on a lot of fronts. Among the jobs not so visible: developing the next generation passenger screening technologies. Especially as passenger traffic keeps growing. Here with a report on some developments that promise to make screening both faster and more accurate from the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, John Fortune.

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Details are emerging on the Office of Personnel Management's return to Office expectations for the agency's own workforce starting March 3 specifically. OPM employees are to report to work on site full time. That applies to both teleworkers and remote workers. But this picture is a little fuzzy if you're an employee who lives a great distance from any OPM facility. We get the latest

now from Federal News Network's Drew Friedman.

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The clock is ticking for Defense and Veterans Affairs Department employees who telework or who have remote work agreements. There's a pretty good chance agencies will not be ready when the clock strikes zero over the next month and they're supposed to get back to the office. Federal News Network's Jason Miller writes in the federal report why the return to Office push is one of those sounds good on paper, ideas not so easy to accomplish in reality, especially on the timelines these two agencies have laid out.

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The deferred resignation letter to federal employees is part of the Trump administration's gambit to shrink the government. It's gotten the attention of the House Committee on Oversight, as we hear from Bloomberg Government deputy news director Loren Duggan.

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After many years of delays, the Defense Department is finally started ramping up use of its multi billion dollar household goods moving contract last month, and it's not going well. Hundreds of military families have been hit with late pickups, and even no shows, the problems are so serious, DOD has given the prime contractor a formal notice that it appears to be out of compliance with the contract. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu has been following the global household goods contract many years now.

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Now that the Trump administration has settled in, two questions have emerged for the congressional delegations near D.C. One concerns the ping-pong ball that is the FBI new headquarters question. Another has to do with the new federal job classification known as career-policy. We get one view now from Maryland Democratic Congressman Glenn Ivey.

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An old saying among military people is that amateurs talk about battle strategies and professionals about logistics. It gets to the heart of a bigger idea. Policy gets endlessly debated and no time more than after a change in administrations. But what about the government's capacity to do things properly? My next guest has called for a capacity agenda in 2025. The founder and CEO of Code For America, Jennifer Pahlka, joins me now.

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