The Skeptical Bureaucrat

The House has some details to attend to before normal operations resume, so it'll be a few more days before all the furloughed feds mus...

And so, as inevitably will happen in every dispute between two parties in the USA, it's come to a lawsuit .  The big players in Maryland...

Assuming the FBI HQ relocation to the Reagan Building really happens, then some unlucky people will be impressed into a Facility Security C...

Maryland Senator leans hard on the security argument to oppose administration plan to relocate FBI HQ to federal triangle instead of Greenbe...

Reading the political tea leaves, you can get the impression that the shutdown may be settled soon. I'd caution against optimism on ...

Great slant to how the NYT reports this exchange of accusations: It’s “The administration has provided no evidence to support [its] claims“ ...

https://t.co/o5xOQ6HRFg pic.twitter.com/s9ktAlDQUi — Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) September 2, 2025 He's not waiting for arrest warrants o...

Like most of you who work for the foreign affairs department of the Washingtion DC area's largest employer, I lost a few collegues in th...

The new Director of Overseas Buildings Operations has been announced, and I freely admit that he leaves me perplexed.  First, he's not ...

  First of all, hey! New York Post, please look up the definition of "commiserate" because I'm pretty sure the new FBI Direct...

    I'm not a fan of punk music generally, but I do like this cover version of our new deportation theme song. it starts pretty easy but...

https://t.co/c9v1f384l4 Video courtesy: @DEAROCKYMTNDiv pic.twitter.com/NcCtwk8V9m — FOX21 News (@FOX21News) April 27, 2025 And introduci...

“Neither does [reorganization] involve rhetoric that accuses our diplomats of being ineffective, lacking accountability and concern for Amer...

Contrary to yesterday’s panic-mongering faux leaks, it appears that AF, INL, and Policy Planning are still with us. https://t.co/oa8q4ipA4u ...

Good detail here, given the limitations of secondary reporting. https://t.co/Jto6pl0l0B — TSB (@TweetingTSB) April 16, 2025 Closing diploma...

Up to 30+ posts would be closed, $$ to multinationals, NGOs such as the East-West Center, UN peacekeeping, and INL zeroed out, migration and...

Changes of power often entail the use of a bit of force to shake up the bitter-enders among the losing side. The USIP seems an unlikely plac...

  Not to be confused with the object of that 1974 second-tier Sam Peckinpah movie, but the coincidence of names is worth noting.  As it was ...

Please read The Inside Story of DOGE's State Department Reforms by Peter Van Buren.  PSCs and LES have been the hardest hit by The Tru...

  So far DOGE has been snapping at the heels of us feds, coming for probationary employees and the more easily intimidated of the geezers wh...