A new bill would require agencies to disclose when AI replaces a federal job
The legislation comes amid rising concerns about AI’s impact on the job market.
Michele Sandiford
November 6, 2025 11:22 am
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- Agencies would be required to disclose when artificial intelligence replaces a federal job under a bipartisan bill in the Senate. Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced the AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act yesterday. The bill would require major companies and agencies to report AI-related job effects, including layoffs and job displacement, to the Labor Department. Labor would also be required to compile data on AI-related job effects and publish a report to Congress and the public. The legislation comes amid rising concerns about AI’s impact on the job market.
- The Senate Armed Services Committee is pressing Michael Borders, who was tapped to be assistant secretary of the Air Force for energy. Borders pledged to review all contracts with privatized housing companies, ensure they meet high performance standards, and enable better installation and department-level oversight of privatized housing. He said he’ll push to fill vacancies in military installation housing offices under direct-hire authority and integrate housing oversight into base commander evaluations. He called recent reforms under the 2020 defense policy bill a “crucial first step,” but said more data-driven evaluation to assess the effectiveness of these reforms is needed.
- A federal employee union is challenging the VA’s rollback of collective bargaining rights. A new lawsuit from the American Federation of Government Employees’ National VA Council said the VA is selectively eliminating collective bargaining agreements for some unions but not others. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March to end collective bargaining at agencies involved in national security. Several other lawsuits challenging the executive order, saying the administration’s implementation takes an overly broad view of national security.
- The shutdown has officially set the record as the longest-ever funding lapse, and some are now turning the conversation to the need for bigger reforms. Missed paychecks, service delays and staffing challenges are being felt across the country right now. But even more harms from the shutdown will happen in the long-haul, according to Partnership for Public Service President and CEO Max Stier. “Our future capacity is going to be diminished substantially,” Stier told reporters during a press briefing. “You’re going to see that across the board, whether you talk about air traffic controllers or VA doctors or food inspectors.” Many “good government” organizations are urging bigger picture reforms, like immediate pay for feds in a shutdown and major updates to the government’s budget process.
- Federal employees working in grants management, now is your turn to weigh in on the challenges and opportunities impacting you and your agency. The annual Grants Management Survey is open with a focus on everything from the grants lifecycle to systems and data to training. The survey is overseen by the George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, the National Grants Management Association and REI Systems. Last year, more than 15,000 people took this survey. Survey results will be presented in February at the Grants Management Breakfast Forum.
- Many of the Trump administration’s shutdown layoffs are on hold, but agencies say not all of them. Agencies told a federal judge in San Francisco that about 10% of the approximately 4,000 reduction-in-force notices that government employees got last month do not fall under a preliminary injunction she ordered last month. The departments of Commerce and Health and Human Service, as well as the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency, told the court that some of their layoff notices can proceed. The judge’s order prohibits agencies from issuing any RIF notices “during and because of the federal government shutdown,” to employees in any program, project or activity that includes any bargaining unit or member represented by eight unions who are leading the lawsuit.
- A list of five German food aid organizations briefly appeared on the “shutdown guidance” webpage of U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria before being taken down Wednesday, shortly after it sparked outrage online. The page, which lists various resources for service members and their families during the government shutdown, drew criticism online that the Army was directing U.S. service members to German food banks. The page, which lists various resources for service members and their families during the government shutdown, included a section titled “Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags.” The list included resources such as an organization that “distributes food to people in poverty” and the Too Good To Go app, which sells food at a reduced price. Several news outlets reported that the list was created weeks earlier to assist German civilian employees and that U.S. personnel have access to their own resources.
- The Department of Veterans Affairs has set its sights on a new contract writing system. VA is on track to follow in the footsteps of the Army, the Navy, GSA and several other agencies to try to modernize their contract writing systems. In a new request for information, VA is asking for industry feedback on a commercial software-as-a-service offering that will enhance its procurement operations and potentially reduce reliance on legacy platforms. VA outlines 10 requirements it’s looking for in a new system, including integration with existing governmentwide acquisition platforms, automated workflows and an assortment of AI-assisted capabilities. Responses to the RFI are due by Nov. 17.
- Agencies have less than two weeks to set up new strategic hiring committees. Those committees should be composed of political appointees, who will have to approve nearly all new federal hires, the Trump administration said in a new memo. Agencies will then have until Dec. 1 to create annual staffing plans, which must be shared with the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget. The upcoming deadlines stem from President Trump’s executive order last month, which altered the expectations for federal hiring going forward.
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