"The federal government fantasizes about being able to fill jobs in 80 days ... Tennessee is doing it in 47 to 53 days," said Jeff Neal.

The Trump administration is threatening to use the government shutdown to permanently reduce the size of the civil service. Its ambitions for these cuts are many, including punishing Democrats by ...

Massachusetts is home to approximately 45,000 civilian federal employees and 17,000 members of the reserve component (National Guard and Reservists). While not all reside in the Commonwealth, this ...

Section 1. Purpose. The Congress has recognized that effective Government administration requires excepting some positions from the competitive service based on their confidential, policy-determining, ...

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