The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The explosive Trump administration has lobbed some shells that have Congress abuzz. Maryland and Virginia delegations are on alert over the new federal policy/career classification formerly known as Schedule F. Here with this and more, WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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Among the blizzard of executive orders this week, the Trump administration clarified the role of the military in securing US borders from illegal immigration. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis joins me with what's happened since.

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Robots can flip your hamburger or weld together your car. Now they can operate in a vacuum, fixing satellites in orbit. That's thanks to a program funded by DARPA and carried out by the Naval Research Laboratory. The result is a machine ready for a commercial launch to take into space. Here with the details, the acting director of the Naval Center for Space Technology, Bernie Kelm.

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Who says engineers can't write? My next guest spent a long career as an engineer at NASA. He oversaw teams of people working to develop space flight missions. Along the way he learned a thing or two about the contemporary workplace. So much so, he wrote a book about it called Nice Guys Finish Last and Other Workplace Lies. Engineer and writer John Ruffa joins me now.

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In the first week of the Trump administration, one agency under contention didn't quite surface, namely, the IRS, but Congress cut $20 billion from IRS supplemental funding in 2023 and another $20 billion in the latest continuing resolution. The National Treasury Employees Union says those funds are key to rebuilding taxpayer services. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman, spoke with NTEU national president Doreen Greenwald.

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Regular listeners have for years looked forward to appearance by my next guest. Larry Allen is a seasoned federal sales and marketing executive, and former director of the Coalition for Government Procurement. His regular Federal Drive appearance have come to an end, at least for now, because he's taking a job under the Trump administration as director of the Office of Governmentwide Policy at the General Services Administration. On the morning before inauguration, we checked in.

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The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Health, known as ARPA-H, is tiny at only 118 employees. Its personnel needs are highly specific, though. ARPA-H has used a variety of strategies to get the people it needs. The Government Accountability Office finds, the agency needs a more organized approach. More now from the GAO's director of science, technology assessment and analytics, Candice Wright.

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Now that President Trump has ordered the revocation of telework for federal employees there's a new question. How ready are federal offices to accommodate people with disabilities. That's a legal requirement. We get from perspective from federal employment attorney Aaron Szot.

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