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  Many feds will see pay raise in next paycheck

  By Sherkiya Wedgeworth

  Federal employees have been waiting months to see a boost in their paycheck since the 2019 pay raise was approved by Congress, now some feds are being told it will come as early as this week.
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  DOJ, strength of U.S. civil service system highlighted as redacted Mueller report released

  By Nathan Abse

  Special Prosecutor Mueller’s final report on Russian interference in America’s 2016 elections was finally released, in redacted form—as promised on Thursday, April 18, 2019. With the long-awaited event, the U.S. Department of Justice—the cornerstone of federal law enforcement with over 100,000 federal employees and a $30 billion budget—comes under the spotlight on the world stage, as the institutional legitimacy behind the Mueller investigation.
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  MSPB seeks to bypass WH budget request

  By Chase Gunter

  To address its massive and growing backlog, the panel that reviews federal workplace complaints is asking to "bypass" the White House's budget request.
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  OPM pushing through retirement claim backlog

  By FederalSoup Staff

  The Office of Personnel Management is steadily reducing its federal retirement claim backlog since reaching its seasonal surge of applications at the beginning of the year.
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  View the April 15 FEND issue as a PDF

  By FEND Staff
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  Expert: OPM-GSA merge will give Trump more control

  By FederalSoup Staff

  Nathan Abse speaks to Saint Louis University political scientist Kenneth Warren about the White House plan—and the administration’s ongoing goal of reducing what it sees as redundancy and waste in whole components of the federal civil service.
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  AMA condemns DOD’s new transgender policy

  By Sherkiya Wedgeworth

  The Department of Defense’s new transgender policy has been in place just for a few days, and the American Medical Association is taking issue with some of the fine print.
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  AFGE to TSA: End ‘culture of bullying’

  By Sherkiya Wedgeworth

  The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, is calling on the Transportation Security Administration to end culture of workplace bullying and retaliation that may have contributed to a TSO’s death.
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  GAO’s new science and technology office to double its staff size

  By Chase Gunter

  The Government Accountability Office's new science and technology wing plans to double its staff size and take on a much broader role in the IT modernization and emerging tech space.

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