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Madison Alder

Madison Alder is a reporter for FedScoop in Washington, D.C., covering government technology. Her reporting has included tracking government uses of artificial intelligence and monitoring changes in federal contracting. She’s broadly interested in issues involving health, law, and data. Before joining FedScoop, Madison was a reporter at Bloomberg Law where she covered several beats, including the federal judiciary, health policy, and employee benefits. A west-coaster at heart, Madison is originally from Seattle and is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

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Close-up of phone screen displaying icon for Anthropic Claude app, a Large Language Model (LLM) powered generative artificial intelligence chatbot. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

HHS rolls out Claude departmentwide

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WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 24: People walk past the headquarters of the U.S. Small Business Administration in the Southwest Federal Center area on March 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. Even after announcing that loans and grants formerly managed by the Department of Education will be transferred to the SBA, President Donald Trump announced last week that the SBA is cutting around 43% of its workforce, or about 2,700 positions. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A week after shutdown’s end, some federal workers’ job status remains in limbo

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