Speaking of national security, background investigations have long been a drag on federal hiring, but under a long running initiative called Trusted Workforce 2.0 agencies have been working to modernize and streamline personnel vetting, but a lot of reform is yet to be done. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday covered this for our 25th anniversary series, and he joins me now.

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