Federal Government

When D.C.’s paid leave program goes into effect next year, local workers will be able to take up to eight weeks of paid time off to take care of a new child. But employees of the District’s largest employer — the federal government — won’t…

The ongoing partial shutdown has stopped up the federal government’s payment of its water bills in Washington.

The federal government owns a lot of sinks, faucets and toilets in the District of Columbia, where 195,000 government employees wash their hands, fill up their water bottles and flush their waste on a daily basis.