Natalie Alms
@AlmsNatalie
journalist who covers how the govt's tech affects you🫵@NextgovFCW, part of @GovExec. NC native, DC resident. tips - [email protected] and signal at nalms.41
some ✨personal news✨ - I'm switching beats to cover federal tech policy; service delivery (think unemployment, food stamps, etc.) and the govt's tech workforce. if this is your jam, let's talk! find me at [email protected]
NPR's Anas Baba in Gaza faced Israeli military fire, US contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead, crowds with knives fighting for rations, and masked thieves when he sought food from a new group backed by the US and Israel. Listen and read: npr.org/2025/07/06/g-s…
National Park Service gift shops could remove books on slavery and the Civil War, scoops @jakespring as agency staff follow a Trump directive to yank material that disparages Americans washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
The Trump administration revealed to a federal court on Thursday the specific offices at which widespread layoffs were planned as of earlier this year, providing rare insight into the scale of its proposed reductions in force, via @EricM_Katz. buff.ly/Jaz80Ns
NEW: The IRS is considering ending non-English language services That’d drop phone and in-person interpreters + translations of common tax forms and notices. It’s to comply with Trump’s order designating English the US’s official language. Link in thread…
After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
Joint statement on Gaza from @AFP, @AP, @BBCWorld and @Reuters
Inspector General to audit Social Security performance metrics - Nextgov/FCW nextgov.com/digital-govern…
🚨 🚨🚨 “Nearly one in three people are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations” “In a video filmed Tuesday inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, families fretted over babies with distended bellies and tiny fists that they clenched as they cried.”…
ICE releases deaf Mongolian immigrant after holding him for months without interpreter calmatters.org/justice/2025/0…
More Trump, namechecking Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar: "We buy a lot of things from Palantir."
At the "Winning the AI Race" event, Trump suggests he's into the idea of a moratorium on state AI regulation: "We also have to have a single federal standard, not 50 different states regulating this industry of the future... I was told before I got up here, this is an unpopular…
The SSA Commissioner has agreed to have the agency’s inspector general audit SSA’s performance data and to publicly report a broader list of data, @SenWarren told reporters Wednesday, after SSA changed the metrics it reports publicly last month. nextgov.com/digital-govern…
Scoop from me: the head of the White House budget office is billing his side job agency, CFPB, $4.7M for his security detail. Details👇
.@WHOMB is now billing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau $4.7 million for Russ Vought’s security detail, according to a memorandum obtained by Government Executive, via @EricM_Katz. buff.ly/WOrIA8p
"The E.P.A. intends to argue that imposing climate regulations on automakers poses the real harm to human health because it would lead to higher prices and reduced consumer choice" nytimes.com/2025/07/22/cli…
Republicans are talking about a full-year CR, followed by a series of "rifle-shot rescission packages," one after another, Rep. Jodey Arrington says. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…
Former federal science leaders warned that a rumored 2nd rescission bill targeting science agencies as well as proposed budget cuts, efforts to shrink workforces and grant terminations amount to a "systematic dismantling of [U.S.] research infrastructure"
NEW: The new director of OPM -- an early DOGE stronghold -- says that he may need to reverse some staffing losses at the agency, which is projected to be down by over 1,000 employees nextgov.com/people/2025/07…
The White House is removing the Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering Trump's weekend trip to Scotland in retaliation for the paper's new reporting on Trump and Epstein. politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
Still -- DOGE isn't completely out. GSA had an all-hands political appointee meeting this morning that included 9 DOGE-ers, by my count.
NEW: Big leadership change at General Services Administration, a DOGE stronghold, that some employees are speculating is over DOGE fallout. The former acting head, a DOGE ally, is being replaced by Mike Rigas, a Trump longtimer and current State Department deputy director