Shannon Bond
speaker
521 appearances
63 recordings
5 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shannon Bond’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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District Judge Melissa DuBoze said the states were likely to succeed in their claims.
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Her order blocks HHS from finalizing layoffs or fire.
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Hiring more workers.
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Health Secretary Robert F.
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cut more than 10,000 jobs in late March.
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Shannon Bond, NPR News.
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U.S. District Judge Susan Ilsten, a Clinton appointee, says a temporary restraining order is necessary to, quote, protect the power of the legislative branch. The case, brought by a coalition of labor unions, nonprofits, and local governments, argues the approach being taken by Trump, Elon Musk, and agency heads to restructure the government violates the Constitution.
Judge Ilsten says while the president does have the authority to seek changes at agencies, he needs to work with Congress to do so. It's just the latest in a string of court battles testing the limits of Trump's executive authority. Shannon Bond, NPR News.
The Departments of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Transportation said this week they're reopening their deferred resignation programs. Similar notices went out on Friday at the Defense Department and the General Services Administration. The new round mirrors the fork-in-the-road offer sent in February to nearly all 2.3 million civilian federal employees.
The Trump administration has said about 75,000 employees elected to resign under the program's first round. But many workers who tried to accept the offer were later told they were ineligible. Some of the new agency notices exempt jobs considered critical. Shannon Bond, NPR News.
Yeah, this USDA worker was pretty confused by this, so they actually drove to the address on this list. Sure enough, it was a storage facility. And when the worker asked the owner of the facility why it might be showing up on a list of federal office spaces, they said the owner laughed and said, yes, you know, the federal government does rent a unit here. It's used to store a boat.
Now, to be clear, this employee doesn't expect to actually be working out of the storage unit. Like other federal employees I spoke with, they didn't want us to use their name because they fear retaliation from the Trump administration for speaking out. I reached out to the USDA. They told me they are identifying issues and addressing them quickly.
But, Michelle, this is just one example of the kind of confusion, even absurdity, some federal workers are encountering around this order back into offices. What are some of the other stories that you've heard?
Yeah, my colleague Jenna McLaughlin and I talked to employees at a dozen agencies who are being ordered back into the office to comply with President Trump's executive order terminating all remote work. And what they told us is in many cases, these offices just are not equipped for an influx of people. So they're running out of toilet paper and soap in the bathrooms.
There aren't enough desks or computer monitors. Internet connections and Wi-Fi service can be slow or unavailable. You know, I even spoke to people at the FDA who went back to the main office in Maryland last week. They're nervous to drink the water in the building because last year testing found Legionella bacteria in some FDA buildings. That causes Legionnaires disease.
Now, the agency notified employees coming back that it is safe to drink the water. But some say because they haven't made new testing results available, they just don't want to risk it. The FDA told me it's keeping employees up to date on their working conditions.
Well, about 10 percent of federal employees were fully remote, according to a federal government report last year. That's around 288,000 people, and many more had the ability remotely. to work from home sometimes. And of course, Michelle, teleworking increased a lot during the pandemic.
But actually, many federal agencies had been encouraging telework going back decades as a way of saving on costs around like, you know, real estate, utilities, office space. The Office of Personnel Management found telework saved taxpayers more than $230 million in 2023. And the government was encouraging telework during the first Trump administration as well.
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