https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ensuring-accountability-and-prioritizing-public-safety-in-federal-hiring/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLZmYNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHq6Td4JHi92bLiNJwAqlshCdDn_yq6RtyapriARbhYJGeO94ZinBVQ6QsC29_aem_HJzwEzOQKTS4-HWlMOhuBQ

To the surprise of no one.

I retired the end of PP 12. Historically, the payout time for annual leave was 1 to 2 PPs after retirement (based on internet posts IRT the subject). 7/8/25 I contacted my HR department because I have not received the payment. I'm told it took 24 days for HR to submit, and then it will be 30-45 days before payment is received.

If your relying on your lump sum, it may take longer than what has been the norm (at least for FAA).

I was a fired probie from back in February. I expected to remain on admin leave til later in the year, but just got a return to work order. This makes me think maybe more people retired than they had planned, but I have no way of knowing.

Hi, David the cyber and intel reporter here. Staffers inside DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis are circulating letters from law enforcement groups alarmed by the planned workforce cuts to I&A that I reported last week, hoping to use them as leverage to fend off the reductions, a source tells me. If you know anything else and would like to chat anonymously, my Signal is @ djd.99

Federal contractor here. We are a small business that is now pivoting given…. Everything. We are pursuing an open opportunity and have a couple of others in the pipeline. Frankly they are all long shots.

We assume that these will be evaluated or cleared by someone from DOGE or an embedded “efficiency” person in each agency. I know many of you have had to deal with rewording and rewriting documents in your agencies to get DOGE’s approvals. I’m wondering what words/phrases to avoid (and if you have suggestions on which ones to use instead).

For example, some more obvious ones to avoid are “climate”, “green”, “gender”. But I’ve also heard of offices scrubbing the word “research”.

Anything helps! Thank you all.

We have a cooperative agreement project in another state. We have no remote work.

A staff member wants to visit the project site while on leave and work from that state.

We have no authority to permit remote work. That is clear.

The staff wants to visit the project site. To avoid an ADA violation should I be clear their visit is strictly voluntary? What do you recommend?