When he's not tooling around the National Capital region on his motorcycle, Tom Temin interviews federal executives and government contractors who provide analy...
25,000 fired feds reinstated after courts find probationary terminations illegal
Tens of thousands of federal employees who were fired during their probationary periods
have their jobs back on paper anyway. In a court filing last night, the Trump administration
detailed the process agencies have gone through to reinstate those fired workers in the aftermath of a judge's ruling that found the terminations were illegal. But the administration also made clear it's not happy about having to process those reinstatements, and it's still fighting in federal appeals court. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu is here with more on the legal process and the details on which agencies are undoing those terminations.
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Unions sue DHS to save TSA collective bargaining contract
Lawsuits targeting the Trump administration's personnel activities are piling up. Now a group of unions is suing the Transportation Security Administration over cancelation of collective bargaining rights. It came straight from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday has the latest.
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The Federal Drive with Tom Temin -- Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin
Bureau of Prison employees try to deal with agency-side pay cuts
Is government accountability in shrinking mode?
Is Justice going after its own immigration judges?
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Bureau of Prison employees try to deal with agency-side pay cuts
Among its many struggles, the Bureau of Prisons has trouble retaining correctional officers. Recently, the Justice Department ended a long-running incentive pay plan cutting officers' and other employees' pay by up to 25%. The cuts are supposed to go into effect this month. For a reaction and update, we turn to the president of one Bureau of Prisons union local president, Aaron McGlothin.
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Is government accountability in shrinking mode?
You may never have heard of the Open Government Federal Advisory Committee. Too late. Operating under the auspices of the General Services Administration, it's another casualty of the Trump administration. For one view of what the committee did and why this matters, we turn to the executive director of the American Governance Institute, Dan Schuman.
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When he's not tooling around the National Capital region on his motorcycle, Tom Temin interviews federal executives and government contractors who provide analysis and insight on the many critical issues facing the Executive branch. The Federal Drive is found at FederalNewsNetwork.com and 1500 AM in the Washington D.C. region.
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