Article Title: House Democrat slams Kamala Harris on border: 'Doesn't look like she's very interested in this'
Snippet of Article: "...Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, a moderate whose district covers nearly 200 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, told the New York Times he had been disappointed by his interactions with Harris, who was tasked by President Biden with addressing the migrant border crisis. ..."
Article Title: White House Downplays Secret Service Estimate of COVID Fraud
Snippet of Article: "...An agency spokesperson said Wednesday that they were not amending a statement on their website, but did add a clarifying note to explain the figure is based on reports from the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration and that the Secret Service was not producing a new report. ..."
Article Title: Texans Want Border Wall Finished Fast
Snippet of Article: "...Texas Governor Greg Abbott debuted a new portion of the Texas border wall self-funded by the state after construction of the wall was stopped by President Joe Biden. ..."
Article Title: Lawmakers Push to Make Some Federal Employees Vulnerable to Lawsuits
Snippet of Article: "...New bill would allow individuals to sue agencies and law enforcement personnel for violating their constitutional rights. ..."
Article Title: Texas Border Human Smuggling Attempt Stopped, 100 Migrants Discovered in Semi-Trailer
Snippet of Article: "...On Tuesday at approximately 7 p.m. a DPS special agent observed several vehicles being escorted as they uploaded migrants and transferred them into a semi-trailer in Laredo.
Special agents and Highway Patrol Troopers approached the trailer and discovered the 100 migrants inside. Migrants included a total of 82 men and 18 women. ..."
Article Title: Judge: Federal employee cannot remain anonymous in vaccine mandate lawsuit
Snippet of Article: "...A judge has squelched a bid by a federal worker to sue President Biden over the vaccine mandate without his name becoming public.
In a six-page ruling..."
Article Title: Commission says this is the first time federal employees have been targeted
Snippet of Article: "...Two federal employees, with the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), were conducting daily work out on the river. According to the commission, these workers are in charge of accounting and sampling the water.
They told us one employee was inside a boat when three masked men flagged him down from the Mexican side of the river. ..."
Article Title: Report: The CIA Caught Employees Molesting Children And Didn’t Prosecute Them
Snippet of Article: "...The Central Intelligence Agency found evidence indicating at least 10 employees had committed sex crimes with children in the past 14 years, yet only one was charged..."
Article Title: You Might Not Be Fired Until After the Holidays For Being Unaccinated Depending on Your Agency
Snippet of Article: "...The Office of Management and Budget is telling some federal agencies they can delay firing their employees who refuse to get vaccinated until after the holidays, an official confirmed to CNN..."
Article Title: 92 per cent of Fed workers under mandate are vaccinated
Snippet of Article: "...The government office with the lowest number of partially vaccinated employees was the Agriculture Department, at 86.1 per cent..."
Article Title: World is put on high alert over the Omicron coronavirus variant
Snippet of Article: "...when you have a virus like this, it almost invariably is going to go all over."
The World Health Organization (WHO) said late on Friday that early evidence suggest the Omicron variant, first identified in South Africa, could pose an increased risk of reinfection and said that some of the mutations detected on the variant were concerning. ..."
Article Title: Buying Back Military Time
Snippet of Article: "...Buying back military time (or making a military service deposit as some call it) is basically paying a certain amount of money to add the time you had in the military to your federal service. Buying back your time often makes the most sense when you are not already receiving a military retirement/pension. ..."
Article Title: Team Joe’s neverending lies about how many Americans are left in Afghanistan
Snippet of Article: "...Before his utterly botched Aug. 30 withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, President Biden made a solemn vow: “If there are American citizens left, we’re going to stay until we get them all out.”
Not only did he break that promise, we’re still learning just how badly he failed: Thousands upon thousands remain stranded. ..."
Article Title: Biden’s Shot at Border Patrol Clears Way for Illegal Aliens
Snippet of Article: "...Between the president’s vax mandate and normal rates of attrition, the Border Patrol stands to lose a whopping 59 percent of its personnel amidst an ongoing border crisis, according to an internal government report.
Noting that the southern border is “already dangerously understaffed,” a group of Republican congressmen warns that the administration is setting up the Border Patrol for massive failure...."
Article Title: Katie Porter decimates Louis DeJoy’s leadership of USPS with a sharpie
Snippet of Article: "...Appearing via video link during a House oversight committee hearing in Chicago, the Democrat ran through the results from the audit that found “that by the spring of 2020 [on time] mail delivery was right around 92 per cent,” before collapsing by January.
She held-up a whiteboard with a chart showing how “on time” USPS deliveries went from about 92 per cent in the spring of 2020 to around ..."
Article Title: What is the average FERS retirement?
Snippet of Article: "...What is the average FERS retirement? The average federal civil servant who retired in fiscal year 2016 was 61.5 years old and had served 26.8 years of federal service. Workers who retired under FERS received an average monthly income of $ 1,834. ..."
Article Title: Reverend Al Sharpton Shouted Down at Del Rio Border
Snippet of Article: "...Mr. Sharpton, why have you not been an advocate for the kids who are being trafficked at the border right now. All the kids that are being brought over have been drugged or sedated coming into the country,” one man describing himself as a first generation latino and a news source called “Border Report News.” Sharpton was asked why he was a racist, as well.
"Nobody wants you in Texas! Get out with your racism! This is a loving community. Get out of Texas!..."
Article Title: Federal workers' union suggests it will accept Biden vaccine mandate
Snippet of Article: "...The union, which said it has urged the workers it represents to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, said it will work to ensure government agencies accommodate employees getting immunized..."
Article Title: Federal workers asked to volunteer for 'urgent' border effort amid influx of children
Snippet of Article: "...The Department of Health and Human Services, which partnered with the Office of Personnel Management, is seeking volunteers for up to 120-day deployments to work for the HHS program that serves unaccompanied migrant children in the US, according to an OPM memo and job posting for federal employees...Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asked department employees to volunteer to help support the "surge" of migrants along the US- Mexico border, calling the situation overwhelming..."
Article Title: How to Watch Biden’s First News Conference
Snippet of Article: "...Watch Live Here..."
Article Title: Politicians unload on Kamala Harris for her past comments comparing ICE officers to the KKK and saying undocumented immigrants are not criminals after Biden made her immigration czar
Snippet of Article: "...senator from Missouri, tweeted Wednesday: 'This is the person Joe Biden is putting in charge of the border - an advocate for decriminalizing illegal border crossing.'
He was referencing how Harris raised her hand during a Democratic primary debate in June 2019 when candidates were asked if they were in favor of decriminalizing border crossings..."
Article Title: 3.2% Federal Pay Raise Bill Appears in Senate
Snippet of Article: "... feds make around 23% less than their private sector counterparts.
“Federal employees have endured much over the last few years, from paltry annual pay increases to additional financial challenges because of the COVID pandemic,” Erwin said. “Federal families are hurting just as much as the rest of America, and when a million or more federal workers do not get a pay increase to offset rising costs, communities all over the country feel it too..."
Article Title: Census Chief Got Kickbacks for Securing Pal a Job: Feds
Snippet of Article: "...Choudhury, who is 46 years old and has worked for the federal government since 2015 according to public records, faces a prison term of up to two years if convicted. The Census Bureau, an agency under the aegis of the Department of Commerce, has previously come under fire over corruption allegations related to the 2020 national headcount..."
Article Title: Workforce shortages are ‘significant’ to agencies’ high-risk problems
Snippet of Article: "...OPM has placed special focus on closing skills gaps in cybersecurity across the federal government, but has not given similar attention to the other science, technology, math and engineering fields that are in equally high demand at many agencies..."
Article Title: White House Weighs New Cybersecurity Approach After Failure to Detect Hacks
Snippet of Article: "...In the end, the hacks were detected long after they had begun not by any government agency but by private computer security firms. The full extent of the damage to American interests from the hacks is not yet clear, but the..."
Article Title: Rep. Graves Votes To Stop Automatic Pay Raise For Federal Employees
Snippet of Article: "...Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.-14) issued the following statement after voting for H.R. 273, which passed the House on Friday and would block the automatic pay increase for federal employees this year..."
Article Title: Turned 60 last year? Social Security has an unpleasant surprise for you
Snippet of Article: "...chief actuary at the Social Security Administration, said in testimony in July that a decline in the average wage index for 2020 could result in a benefit that is 9.1% lower than expected beginning in 2022.
For example, a beneficiary who becomes eligible for Social Security benefits in 2021 and had earnings at the same pace as the average wage index during his career would have a monthly benefit check of about..."
Article Title: Unemployed workers are hit with another shock: Many owe the government money for health insurance
Snippet of Article: "...According to the federal government, Ryan earned too much money on unemployment. It was more money than she would have made working as a preschool teacher, and it bumped her into a different income bracket that reduced her Affordable Care Act insurance subsidy..."
Article Title: U.S. Federal Government Employee Lookup: May include name, job title, duty station, and salary for most Federal civilian employees
Snippet of Article: "... Under open government transparency guidelines, information on public employees (including those employed by Federal, state, and municipal governments) is a matter of public record. FederalPay.org has created a powerful search tool that allows public access to the EHRI-SDM dataset, which contains records of most public employees of the United States' Federal Government.
Information available through this dataset may include name, job title, duty station, and salary for most Federal civilian employees. Some individual's names have been withheld by the OPM or specific agencies for security reasons. While FederalPay attempts to provide this dataset as a public service, exactly as provided by the OPM, we cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the results provided. ..."
Article Title: Biden Vows to Raise Federal Employees' Pay and Protect Benefits
Snippet of Article: "...Joe Biden this week promised that if he is elected president, he would provide federal employees with “regular pay increases” and abandon proposals by the Trump administration to make them contribute more to their retirement and other non-salary benefits...“We must make Social Security more generous and increase its benefits so that current and future retirees enjoy the dignified retirement they’ve earned,” Biden wrote..."
