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• CDC director acknowledges employee trust is at an ‘all-time low’

• VA plans further VA.gov updates as it looks to expand AI integration

• State Department to pilot online passport applications for first-time applicants

• OPM’s federal hiring push runs up against young workers’ waning interest

• House pushes competing veterans’ benefits bills through in unusual votes

• What retirees should know about health insurance during Open Season

• Lame-duck Congress expedites search for next GAO leader

• VA staffing losses are disrupting critical services at multiple hospitals

• What federal agencies stand to gain by hiring more veterans

• Honoring veterans means keeping our promises to them

• Feds urge judge to block OPM’s gender affirming care ban

• Federal agencies want young talent. They need to rethink the pitch, experts say

• USPS ‘got the job done’ delivering ballots, as postal unions push to permanently block mail-in voting EO restrictions

• The identity crisis threatening federal watchdogs

• Airport workers got security badges before TSA completed background checks, watchdog finds

• Tough choices, uncertainty, and scrutiny may lie ahead for defense contractors

• Planning behind USDA employee relocations ‘unknown,’ after agency chief rebuffs watchdog’s review 

• GSA brings back daily work reports, with threat of disciplinary action

• State Department's push to cancel hundreds of contracts left behind a trail of mistakes, watchdog finds

• Walkinshaw to push for federal pay raise in lame duck spending talks

• USDA’s request to lift stay on employee relocations denied by federal judge 

• Justice Department creates new task force to police AI misuse