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Why smuggle fentanyl – when you can mail it? Drug dealers find post office is easier
A 2018 law aimed at preventing drug producers from shipping their goods through the mail is not being implemented, a new report shows.
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Next shutdown deadline looms as Congress languishes after McCarthy’s ouster from speakership
An already tight timeline is condensed with half of Congress being effectively incapacitated.
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Congress averts shutdown with a 45-day stopgap funding bill
Lawmakers passed a bipartisan measure just hours before a funding lapse was set to furlough hundreds of thousands of federal employees.
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Biden administration begins cautioning feds to prepare for a shutdown
Degree of organization varies across government as agencies note a funding lapse could still be avoided.
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Shutdown looms despite House GOP claims of progress toward spending plan
Confidence in a new short-term funding proposal was short-lived on Thursday.
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House GOP proposes to punt shutdown for 1 month while slashing agency spending
Stopgap funding measure raises immediate doubts of whether it can pass the House or meaningfully reduce odds of an appropriations lapse in less than two weeks.
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Taking a page from Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy promises massive job cuts across federal government
'Large-scale, mass layoffs are absolutely what we will bring to the D.C. bureaucracy,' Ramaswamy said at the America First Policy Institute.
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IRS: Millionaires with unpaid tax bills? We're on it ... sort of
The agency had planned to bring on 3,833 revenue agents in fiscal 2023, but as of March had recruited just 34.
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Biden's immigration policies are working, officials say – though workforces are stretched thin
Immigration agencies say they are hanging on, for now.
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Biden administration soliciting volunteers throughout government to deploy for disaster response
FEMA has said the assignments from other agencies could help ensure an adequate recovery effort, including in Florida.
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Feds look to ramp up involvement in extreme heat response
Amid record heat waves and calls for more federal action, FEMA will host an extreme heat summit next week.
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Florida joins feds in deploying to Hawaii to assist in wildfire response
Agencies with offices and personnel on the island also are scrambling to accommodate staff and provide continuity of services.
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VA deploys medical units around the country to treat homeless vets
The number of homeless veterans has decreased dramatically over the last 15 years.
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DeSantis vows to 'start slitting throats' of federal workers 'on day one' of presidency
A federal workforce group called the comments 'disqualifying.'
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DeSantis pledges to eliminate agencies, slash federal workforce, following long line of recent GOP candidates
Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate says his administration would 'fundamentally reshape Washington.'
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USPS begins issuing layoff notices to some employees
The Postal Service didn't say how many workers in Florida would be affected, if any.
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Republicans tell Biden: Outsource more federal jobs
As the feds lag, however, Florida has led the way in privatization, starting in earnest under Jeb Bush.
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In the mail? Postal Service consolidations will affect Florida
Letter carriers will not lose their jobs, but may have to relocate locally.
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