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The House has passed a sweeping defense bill that provides a pay raise for service members but strays from traditional military policy with Republicans add-ons blocking abortion coverage, diversity initiatives at the Pentagon and transgender care.
In today's Federal Newscast: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is taking another stab at killing Schedule F. There are some more return-to-office changes in the works for a couple of agencies. And President Joe Biden’s pick for second-in-command at the Department of Veterans Affairs is heading for a full Senate vote.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), chairman of the Financial Services and General Government subcommittee, said the debt ceiling caps required cuts to capital budget accounts and the Technology Modernization Fund didn’t make the cut.
17 of 24 agency headquarters offices are at or below one-quarter of full capacity, the Government Accountability Office found in preliminary findings from 2023 data.
In today's Federal Newscast: House Republicans are looking to make it easier to fire VA employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Ala.) abortion views lead to unfilled officer slots in the U.S. military. And the State Department looks to bring back retired diplomats.
In today's Federal Newscast: Virginia Sens. Warner and Kaine send a detailed letter to the Defense Department decrying the lack of reforms to privatized military housing. GSA is turning up its protections to better mitigate supply chain risks. And Customs and Border Protection lays out its agency-wide IT plans.
Former Hill and federal executives recommend agency leaders to keep a close eye on the appropriations and be more proactive to protect against potential deep cuts.
Coming back from its holiday recess, both chambers of Congress have a lot of business to take care of before their next one.
In today's Federal Newscast: Two GOP lawmakers are looking to defund armed regulatory officers at certain federal agencies. The Office of Personnel Management reminds agency managers they must not forget the "weather and safety leave" option. And it looks like your latest Zoom meeting is probably a public record.
DoD made the highly unexpected decision to cancel the $374 million replacement for its aging Defense Travel System in May. The explanation it's given to lawmakers is very different from what it's told the media and public, and has sparked a new congressional investigation.
On today's Federal Newscast: A union for feds sounds the alarm about telework, budgets and DEI issues. What does it mean that agencies improperly paid out more than $247 billion? And IRS looks to beta-test a free, online tax-filing platform.
Emily Murphy, the former administrator of the General Services Administration and now a senior fellow with the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, makes the case for why cost and pricing data at the main contract level is useless and burdensome.
Budget talks in Congress are in suspended animation this week because of the 4th of July recess. When members return, they will have only three weeks until the August recess.
When the nearly endless debates over the debt ceiling were raging on, the United States didn't look very businesslike to the rest of the world. Internally, though, you never stop hearing that federal agencies should operate more like a business. This is both true and not true, according to my next guest.