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The White House says a new agency-level appeals process for clearance denials could expose classified information, increase processing time.
Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee say roughly 17,000 community care providers were also potential victims of the VA data breach, which the department made public earlier this week. VA on Friday said just 13 of those providers were truly impacted by the breach, and six had payments diverted.
For the first time in a couple of dozen blue moons, Congress may not pass the National Defense Authorization Act before the end of the fiscal year. The House and Senate versions have some politically serious differences.
In today's Federal Newscast, on-time mail delivery still hasn’t fully recovered from operational changes made nearly two months ago by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to reprogram $243 million from Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds to overhaul yet another series of legacy IT systems.
The House joins the Senate this week in getting back to work in Washington. The prospects for a continuing resolution to take effect October 1 are looking good. But that's about all that looks good.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found agencies saved $450 million over the last two years through the Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies (MEGABYTE) Act.
The Promote Act now pending in Congress would expand the Defense Department's support education for students in the Junior Reserve Officer Corps program.
John Gibbs, the president's latest pick to lead the Office of Personnel Management, spent much of his nomination hearing Wednesday trying to reassure senators his previous rhetoric and comments are in the past, and his three-year government career confirms he has no tolerance for discrimination.
Despite concerns from the White House, leaders of the House Armed Services Committee think they can create the new role.
The curtain opens on a Congress deeply divided, now the question is whether they'll pass a budget for the year starting October 1.
In today's Federal Newscast, there is now an informal deal in place to avoid a potential government shutdown at the end of the month.
Stuck between delays from the coronavirus pandemic and the Trump administration’s instruction to still complete the count on time, the Census Bureau is working on a compressed timeline to wrap up field operation and process the data.
In an email sent to some civilian workers Tuesday, a large defense agency said no federal employee, department or payroll provider will be able to opt out of the president's upcoming payroll tax deferral planned later this month. All federal payroll providers are expected to "act in unison."