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The House Appropriations Committee is considering a 2026 spending bill that would lessen the total budget cut for CISA.
Nearly 10,000 human resources officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs received about a 15% pay raise from this ...
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"I think from the standpoint of rulemaking and the issuance of guidance, these proposals will lead to greater input from industry," said Michael Deutsch.
The Department of Government Efficiency said that means non-defense spending has been reduced by almost $25 billion.
USDA has cancelled 750 contracts so far under the Trump administration, according to a tracker on its website.
"We have to, as a nation, continually invest both to stabilize what we have and to take in new tools that allow us to keep our leadership," Vicki Colvin said.
"Even if not everything they're buying derives from a prior effort, but some core aspect derives from a prior phase, that's enough," Zach Prince said.
Among other things, the first AI executive order focused on building R&D and the nation’s workforce. But it was only the first of a half dozen to come.
The Education Department's notice comes after a federal judge last month ordered it to reinstate nearly 1,400 recently fired employees.
"OTAs were originally designed to procure things like [R&D] or prototypes. What I'm seeing now is OTAs...not in those categories at all," said Barbara Kinosky.
HHS confirmed reinstatement notices went out to the former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees, but provided few details.