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DFW billionaire reigns as queen of America’s richest dynasty Her family's revenue is equivalent to the size of Chile’s economy. The Walton family once again reigns as the richest family in the U.S., according to a ranking released December 17 by  Forbes. Their net worth: $247 billion. That sum represents close to half of Walmart’s annual revenue and is equivalent to the size of Chile’s economy. The net worth of Fort Worth billionaire Alice Walton, the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, accounts for a little over one-fourth of the family fortune.  Forbes estimates s...

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed. Government funding expires at midnight and as of late Friday morning, lawmakers had yet to reach an agreement on that or another stimulus package for the economic recession resulting from the novel coronavirus pandemic. If there is a shutdown, transition funding won’t be impacted because it “was an anomaly line item in the September [continuing resolution],” Matthew Glassman, senior fellow a...

As White House Steps Up Schedule F Implementation, ‘Lawmakers Don’t Get It’ Recent moves by OPM are stoking fear that the Trump administration is accelerating plans to politicize federal jobs as the window closes on Congress’ ability to block the move. Time is running out for Congress to block the Trump administration’s implementation of what experts say is an alarming plan to convert potentially hundreds of thousands of federal workers into at-will employees, essentially turning the civil service into a partisan machine where jobs can be doled out as rewards for political s...