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U.S. Federal Government Wasting $7 Billion On Offices Nobody Uses, Report Reveals

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According to the findings released Wednesday, 17 of the 24 federal agencies are operating at less than half capacity, with some buildings being used as little as 9%. Despite this, federal agencies spent $3.3 billion on furniture between 2020 and 2022, even as the shift to remote work became widespread. While Washington D.C.

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Steep Job Cuts At Department Of Energy Could Undermine Vital Future Of Work Infrastructure Needs

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The two sources said the layoffs come after three people representing billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency arrived at the agency. The International Energy Agency predicts that data centers electricity consumption could exceed 1,000 terawatt hours by 2026, more than doubling from 2022 levels.

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Red States’ Return-to-Office Orders Put Political Theater Over Data, Expert Warns

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Office of Personnel Management (OPM) found that federal agencies saved millions in operational costs while maintaining or improving productivity with telework. Instead of treating flexible work as a tool for efficiency, theyve cast it as a front in the culture wars risking long-term damage to government workforces.

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Cancel the grizzly bear

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The agency then proposed a delisting. In 2022, Wyoming petitioned the Fish and Wildlife Service to delist bears in the Yellowstone region. States would be responsible for them, and — miracle of miracles — state and federal agencies actually agreed on how to manage grizzlies after ESA protections end.

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2 Million U.S. Federal Workers Offered 8 Months Of Pay To Quit

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Security related agencies account for the bulk of the federal workforce, but hundreds of thousands of people work across the country in jobs overseeing veterans’ healthcare, inspecting agriculture and paying the government’s bills, among other jobs. .” Agencies can exempt specific positions from the offers.

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Your favorite national park is struggling to survive

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He retired in 2022 and now serves on the executive council of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks and is a board member of National Park Friends Alliance. As a federal agency, each park has a mission, but then each unit is established for a particular reason. And when we lose the resource, it’s gone.

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The one thing the Trump administration got very right

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The agency promised to reallocate funding away from animal experimentation and toward cutting-edge alternatives, with the aim of pushing American science toward a more technologically advanced, less bloody future.