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Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Eric Katz joins the podcast to discuss President Joe Biden's pick for the Homeland Security Department. This week, President Joe Biden’s administration began with a repeal of his predecessor’s travel ban to several majority Muslim countries, an announcement of a 100-day pause on deportations and an “immediate termination” of the national emergency declaration that allowed for shifting money toward the border wall. Against this backdrop, Biden’s choice to head...

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Conditions at meatpacking plants have led to an explosion in COVID-19, with facilities becoming major vectors of spread in many small towns across the country.  Much of the concern about these plants has focused on the safety of meatpacking workers themselves, and rightfully so. But they aren’t the only ones who work in those plants: federal inspectors, from the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), also visit plants frequently. A new report from Eric Katz at Government Executive says that safety measures put in place for inspectors have been woefully inadequate. Among the inspectors�...

Eric Katz joins the podcast to discuss the negotiations in Congress before funding runs out.

0 let not your heart be troubled. greta van susteren is standing by to go live on the record. thanks for being with us. greta, take it away. tonight, well, did he go too far? >> the contempt that he has shown for the constitution and rule of law is appalling. the president has no authority to unilaterally change a law that congress passed and he signed. >> that's true. it's unconstitutional. >> the one unifying principle in the republican party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don't have health care. >> we need to fight this bill every single day we can in a way that moves...