Federal Drive with Tom Temin
When he's not tooling around the National Capital region on his motorcycle, Tom Temin interviews federal executives and government contractors who provide analysis and insight on the many critical issues facing the Executive branch. The Federal Drive is found at FederalNewsNetwork.com and 1500 AM in the Washington D.C. region.
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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin What happens next at Health and Human Services with a quarter of the workforce gone? One D.C. university has a discount for out-of-work federal employees A new Trump Executive Order promises to send the General Services Administration “back to the future" Learn more about your
Federal employees newly out of work might look to build a new careers. To help, Georgetown's School of Continuing Studies is offering a big tuition discount. Joining me with the details, the school's dean, Kelly Otter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Some federal employees expected the Trump administration's return to Office mandate to be a mess, and now for many, that's turned out to be the case. At some agencies, for example, there aren't enough desks with many feds instead left to work in packed conference rooms. Others are struggling to connect to the internet,
It's no secret that the Army wants to speed up its buying processes, but to do that, officials say they also need to speed up their processes for deciding what the Army intends to buy. That's likely to mean not just a scrub of the requirements the service already has down on paper, but new ways of defining future requi
What happens next at Health and Human Services with a quarter of the workforce gone?
The shock waves reverberate. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Junior wants to trim 20,000 employees or about one in four employees. For analysis of what this might mean for agency operations, we turn to a long-serving HHS executive now in private consulting, Jeff Grant. Learn more about your ad choice
A new Trump Executive Order promises to send the General Services Administration “back to the future"
President Trump’s order to Eliminate Waste and Save Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement brings some old procurement practices back into fashion. Over the next 60-90 days, agencies, OMB, and the GSA administrator have a lot of work to do centralize procurement of common items back in GSA. To understand what th
