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Mar 18, 2025

Pentagon is cutting up to 60,000 civilian jobs. About a third of those took voluntary resignations

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs will be cut in the Defense Department, but fewer than 21,000 workers who took a voluntary resignation plan are leaving in the coming months, a senior defense official told reporters Tuesday. To reach the goal of a 5% to 8% cut in a civilian workforce of more […]

Mar 14, 2025

FTC reverses its request for a delay in an Amazon trial, says it has resources to litigate the case

A lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission has walked back his comments about a lack of resources and staff turnover interfering with the agency’s preparations for a trial involving Amazon’s Prime program. FTC lawyer Jonathan Cohen asked a federal judge during a hearing on Wednesday to delay the September trial and relax deadlines in the […]

Mar 13, 2025

Judge orders Trump to reinstate probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco ordered President Donald Trump‘s administration to rehire thousands, if not tens of thousands, of probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies, blasting their tactics Thursday as he slowed the new president’s dramatic downsizing of the federal government. U.S. District Judge William Alsup said that [&hell[...]

Mar 12, 2025

Whistleblowers in Sentara insurance investigation revealed

UPDATED MARCH 18 The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia has unsealed a whistleblower complaint against Sentara Health that accused the Hampton Roads health care system of improperly inflating local insurance rates in 2018 and 2019. On Feb. 14, the court revealed the plaintiffs are Sara Stovall, Ian Dixon and Karl Quist […]

Mar 12, 2025

Feds to consider ‘compelling offers’ for real estate

The Trump administration’s push to sell federal office buildings across the nation appears to be far from dead. A revised version of the “non-core” federal properties list is being prepared, a spokesperson for the General Services Administration, the federal property management agency, stated on Monday. “We anticipate the list will be republished in the near […]

Feb 17, 2025

Reports of NoVa housing market’s demise are greatly exaggerated, experts say

“See the rats run,” a Facebook post put up Saturday reads. It’s illustrated with a map purportedly of Arlington County — a map covered with dozens of ovals indicating where houses are on the market. Many of the ovals are labeled “coming soon” or “new.” In the wake of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s […]

Jan 29, 2025

Kaine, Warner respond to Trump White House rescinding spending freeze memo

The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded a controversial memo issued Monday that froze spending on more than $3 trillion in federal financial assistance, including grants and loans backing economic development and infrastructure projects across the nation. In the two-sentence memo issued Wednesday, Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the Office of  Management and […]

Jan 28, 2025

Trump’s pause on $3T in federal funding could impact Va.

Update, 7:30 p.m. A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump‘s freeze on federal spending until at least Feb. 3, but the White House did not immediately respond to the judicial order. On Monday, Trump ordered a freeze on more than $3 trillion in federal financial assistance, including grants and loans backing economic development and […]

Jan 1, 2025

The First 100 Days: What to Expect

In anticipation of a new president taking office, BridgeTower Media spoke with experts across several industries — agriculture, banking and finance, energy, health care and manufacturing — to explore how the incoming Trump administration might affect those industries. The stories in this feature provide expert insights into what organizations can expect as a new administration […]

Dec 31, 2024

Health care sector gears up for second Trump administration  

Following Donald Trump‘s 2024 election win to secure a second term in office, sectors such as health care are gauging what his victory will mean for their industry over the next four years — and beyond.   As with a number of topics on the campaign trail, such as immigration, the economy, national security, and more, […]

Dec 31, 2024

MADE IN THE USA: What Trump presidency could mean for manufacturing 

When a new presidential administration is elected, the future becomes a guessing game.  In the four years following Donald Trump‘s ascendancy to the presidency on Jan. 20, businesses and consumers will be forced to adjust to new policies affecting supply chain and distribution channels, which could create opportunities and challenges for the U.S. economy.  For […]

Dec 31, 2024

Farm Bill, industry growth among agricultural leaders’ priorities in 2025 

Anticipating President-elect Trump‘s impact on agriculture in his first 100 days of office, industry experts say they are concerned about the fate of the Farm Bill and how the agriculture industry will sustain itself amid rising production costs, labor shortages, and soaring land costs.   In advance of the election, the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), […]

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