The proposed rule says state and local election offices must report suspected breaches within 72 hours.
Advocates praised defense leaders for excluding shipyard workers and other key readiness jobs from a department-wide hiring freeze.
Department leaders promised to continue to provide necessary care to transgender veterans even after the rule changes.
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Past behavior shows this population will show up big at the polls. How feds will vote is less clear.
Of those who left their government job, more than a third said the ability to work to telework was the deciding factor.
A desire to serve the public principally motivated many of the more than 530 respondents to pursue a career, long or short, in the federal government.
Latest Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of March 10, 2025.
If lawmakers do not pass a new budget bill by March 14, funding for most federal programs and serives will run out.
A previous plan to deploy the controversial health records system to more VA hospitals in mid-2026 was short-sighted and slow, the new VA secretary said.
Secretary Doug Collins confirmed leaders are looking at trimming 80,000 workers to slim down the growing VA bureaucracy.
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of March 3, 2025.
The latest survey by Wounded Warrior Project shows a higher unemployment rate for disabled veterans than their civilian peers.
About 2,500 VA workers have been forced out of their jobs in the last few weeks.
In his first public address to a veterans group, Doug Collins outlined plans to broaden VA benefits and cut back bureaucracy.
Hegseth promised to reinvest budget savings in other military programs and jettison civilian workers who are not living up to expectations.
President Donald Trump nominated Paul Lawrence to serve as the second-highest leader in the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Advocates praised defense leaders for excluding shipyard workers and other key readiness jobs from a department-wide hiring freeze. Departments and agencies vary in the latitude they give their supervisors and managers to vary the step they offer to a prospective employee.
A reader asks if their military service counts toward their retirement eligibility.
A reader asks what documents are needed to prove the time acquired while in the armed forces.
A reader asks when he can shift back to self-only coverage once his spouse moves to Medicare.
There have been ongoing attempts in Congress and by financial advocates to repeal the WEP.
A reader who wants to apply for deferred retirement wonders if their military buyback counts toward their service time.
An outside watchdog estimates the benefits adjustment will be less than 3% in 2025. “It’s going to be kind of a disaster,” one military official said about the lack of a full budget, which means more limits on how the Pentagon spends. The state-sponsored hacker infiltrated a platform called Microsoft Azure Government, which provides storage, databases and other services to the VA.