{
  "id": 15090,
  "url": "https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/07/gsa-official-says-veterans-preference-federal-hiring-hampering-tech-recruiting/415124",
  "title": "GSA official says veterans' preference in federal hiring is hampering tech recruiting",
  "summary": "A government workforce expert told Government Executive that many hiring rules, including veterans’ preference, have become “procedural hurdles rather than achieving the intended outcome” because they haven’t been updated in decades.",
  "authors": "Sean Michael Newhouse",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-30T20:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-31T05:10:57.675Z",
  "source_slug": "x-nextgov-fcw",
  "source_name": "NextGov/FCW",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.nextgov.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15090",
  "original_url": "https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/07/gsa-official-says-veterans-preference-federal-hiring-hampering-tech-recruiting/415124",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}