Jory Heckman

An internal cable from the agency extends Trump’s terminology change to emails, speeches, websites and official titles, while preserving legal language and historical records.

A mandate to limit outstanding performance scores has managers playing a numbers game and risks pitting teammates against each other.

A Natural Resources Conservation Service employee said most critical vacancies available at his grade level would amount to a "voluntary downgrade," but would spare him from relocating across the country.

Federal Labor Relations Authority members wrote that HHS seemingly used generative AI tools to draft its legal brief, since many of its citations were “fictitious, erroneous, or irrelevant.”

CDC leaders say they're close to finishing a hiring plan that would replenish the agency’s ranks after deep staffing cuts last year, but employees have heard similar messages since March 2026.

The Agriculture Department is still carrying out reorganization activities not explicitly barred by a judge’s stay.

An IRS division that reassigned employees to different parts of the agency to address backlogs is warning staff against “deliberately choosing mediocrity” in their day-to-day work if they get lower performance ratings this year.

An annual scorecard that tracks citizen satisfaction in public-facing services shows the federal government’s first overall decline in five years.

The Government Accountability Office wrote that gaps in USE IT Act data are giving agencies an incomplete understanding of the state of their real estate footprint.

A court-ordered stay prohibits USDA from issuing or enforcing "any other notice or directive of reassignment or relocation in whole or in part."