Federal workers described the experience as disorienting — returning to thousands of unanswered emails and scrambling to catch up with partners who kept work moving during the shutdown. There was ...

The State Department says laid-off Foreign Service officers will be officially separated from the agency on Dec. 5 — once it fixes some “administrative errors." ...

The TMF will not be able to make any new investments after Dec. 12, freezing more than $150 million, if Congress doesn’t renew the program’s authority.

"We have more...pain to work through before we get to a place of stability, where credit markets operate in some kind of normal fashion," Dave Bohrman said.

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The Department of Health and Human Services expects it will take six to eight months to clear a backlog of reasonable accommodation requests from employees.

Of the 750 recommendations Congress had for how the Defense Department is run, none had repealing any statutes "with military acquisition," Greg Williams said.

"Sinaloa's been around for over a century. They can outfight the government in parts of Mexico and they're as big as a Fortune 50 company," Jake Braun said.

Defense spending will grow steadily, while cuts will “continue to fall disproportionately on civil agencies until elections change the balance of power." ...