The Office of Personnel Management published four regulations that shift adjudication of several types of adverse action appeals from the Merit Systems Protection Board to OPM, significantly expanding OPM's authority over federal workforce management.
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration's request to restore President Donald Trump's name to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts while an appeal proceeds, following an earlier ruling that deemed the name change illegal. Workers had previously removed Trump's name from the building's facade.
The Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, marking the first time a president has attempted to remove a Fed board member. However, in a separate ruling, the Court expanded presidential authority to fire heads of other independent federal agencies.
