Biden turns to Obama administration veteran to lead key federal personnel agency
Lisa Rein and Eric Yoder, The Washington Post
Feb. 23, 2021
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WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden has tapped Kiran Arjandas Ahuja, a civil rights lawyer, activist and Obama-era veteran, to lead the Office of Personnel Management, a department the Trump administration tried to kill but is now expected to take on a high-profile role.
Ahuja, 49, served as the personnel agency s chief of staff from 2015 to 2017 as it faced fallout from a massive data breach that compromised the personal information of millions of federal workers and contractors. Before that, she led the Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Obama White House.
Raskin, Trone Join Call for Federal Government to Vaccinate Its Own Workers
Reps. David Trone and Jamie Raskin, who represent Montgomery County in the U.S. House, joined their congressional colleagues from Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., in calling on the federal government to vaccinate its workers through a process separate from state and local COVID-19 vaccine programs.
The lawmakers represent the National Capital Region comprised of Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and four counties in Virginia which is “home to the largest concentration of federal employees,” they wrote in their Feb. 18 letter to the Office of Personnel Management and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The largest federal employee union is pressing for some legislative wins with Democrats in charge of both houses of Congress and in control of the White House.
The top priority is ensuring safe working conditions during the pandemic and the provision of COVID-19 paid sick leave benefits for feds, said American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley during a Sunday press call. But the union also has a long list of other priorities. We must operate as if two years is our window of opportunity, he said during a plenary session held as part of the union s annual legislative and grassroots mobilization conference.
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