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The official 2025 General Schedule (GS) base pay table — the nationwide, non-locality annual rates by grade (GS‑1 to GS‑15) and step (1–10) — was published by the Office of Personnel Management and in...
Allegations that Barack Obama “committed war crimes” focus chiefly on his expansion of drone strikes, “double-tap” tactics, and U.S. support for partner operations (reports cite roughly 563 strikes wi...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking and subsequent proposal narrowed which degree programs it will treat as “professional,” identifying roughly a dozen primary areas (and some doctoral...
Estimates of how many drone strikes President Barack Obama “authorized” vary by dataset and by how one counts CIA, Pentagon and coalition strikes; contemporary reporting and research groups put total ...
Locality pay for 2026 would be applied as a percentage added to the GS base pay and varies by metropolitan-area locality, with higher-percentage adjustments for high-cost metros and lower ones (or the...
The datasets show : one analysis puts the 2025 defense topline at $850 billion and , while multiple other briefings and reports put FY2025 between and . These divergent totals reflect differences betw...
The 2026 federal civilian pay picture was shaped by an Alternative Pay Plan announced August 28, 2025: most General Schedule (GS) civilian employees received a 1.0% across‑the‑board base pay increase ...
The documents provided show the CDC requested for FY2025, but none of the supplied texts definitively state a single, final ; instead they describe the request, Senate appropriations action that maint...
The available documents show no single, definitive statement of an enacted, current federal appropriation level specifically earmarked for Meals on Wheels programs; instead, federal funding is portray...
Undocumented immigrants are for federal TANF cash assistance in 2024; federal law and federal agency guidance treat undocumented people as “not qualified” for TANF, with limited statutory exceptions f...
The Administration’s FY2024 budget request included a contingent, emergency-designated supplemental proposal of up to $4.7 billion explicitly to address operations on the Southwest border, but it did ...
Insurers’ filed rates and expert analyses show pre-subsidy premiums for ACA marketplace plans are set to rise sharply in 2026 — analyses report median proposed increases of about 18% and headline proj...
House Democratic leaders entered 2025 negotiations with several clear priorities but showed tactical flexibility as a shutdown loomed: , while senior appropriators sought guardrails to block unilatera...
Federal courts have repeatedly intervened to stop executive actions that freeze or redirect appropriated funds, ordering agencies to resume disbursements in narrow cases; those interventions do not, i...
Congress and the executive branch have pursued a mix of statutory fixes, enacted data-access laws, and agency-focused proposals aimed at tightening data sharing to reduce improper payments—ranging fro...
The FY2026 appropriations cycle contains competing provisions that would either preserve existing tenant protections for Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) holders or open the door to rolling them back: the...
The President’s Budget and its supporting appendices do include account- and program-level tables and, in many cases, project-level allocations for federal recreation and facilities programs, but the ...
The Department of Education has acted on the April 23, 2025 Executive Order “Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education,” lifting a moratorium on new accreditors and directing the Departme...
U.S. maritime law enforcement traditionally limits force to nonlethal measures and follow‑on prosecutions under statutes like the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act and Coast Guard rules of engagement;...
Estimates of how many drone strikes occurred under President Barack Obama vary widely in reporting: some outlets cite roughly 495–563 strikes in specific theaters or across his presidency (e.g., Airwa...