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- Most federal employees will have the day off tomorrow to observe the newest federal holiday Juneteenth. President Joe Biden has signed the legislation declaring it a holiday. The Office of Personnel Management says since the date falls on a Saturday this year, agencies will be observing it on Friday. This is the first federal holiday created since 1983, when Martin Luther King day was declared one. (Federal News Network)
- Top House Republicans want to know why the administration granted ethics waivers to two political appointees at the Office of Personnel Management and Office of Management and Budget. Alethea Predeoux is OPM’s congressional and legislative affairs director. She previously worked for the American Federation of Government Employees. Celeste Drake is the new Made in America director at OMB. She was a policy specialist for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial…
