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Inspectors General from science-based agencies told House lawmakers they are fighting an uphill battle against fraud in grant and other programs as funding flows from recent laws Congress passed.
Among the uglier mass human-rights violations going on in the world today, is forced labor imposed on the Uyghur minority by China. Congress, in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, gave U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) the job of gathering and publicizing where this forced labor exists in the worldwide industrial supply chains.
In 2020, Congress repealed something known as the Survivor Benefit Plan - Dependency and Indemnity Compensation offset. Better known as the Widow's Tax, it disappeared after a three-year phase-out ending earlier his year.
22 of the 37 items on GAO’s list of vulnerable federal programs and broad government challenges stem from issues of mission-critical skills gaps in the federal workforce.
The biannual list of high risk federal programs, published last week by the Government Accountability Office, is both promising and discouraging.
Clare Martorana, the federal chief information officer chairwoman of the Technology Modernization Fund Board, and Raylene Yung, the executive director of the Technology Modernization Fund, say they are giving lawmakers more details and briefings about the progress and impact of the investments.
Congress last week took up several issues close to the federal bureaucracy. There was the Small Business Administration and its struggles with defaulted COVID loans, the Veterans Affairs Department and its troubled Electronic Health Record project, and the [Government Accountability Office (GAO's) High-Risk List.
In today's Federal Newscast: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's debt limit proposal evokes backlash from the largest federal employee union. The Department of Homeland Security announces new measures to address AI advances, as well as threats from China. And the VA warns that the debt-ceiling proposal by House Republicans would cut tens of thousands of jobs.
The Biden administration recently declared a new approach to federal regulation it said would modernize and streamline it.
A senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee has demanded that U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram address allegations of improper hiring and contracting of her past associates. The request Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa follows an investigation by The Associated Press finding that a federal watchdog is investigating whether strict federal rules on no-bid contracting and hiring may have been violated to channel DEA work to Milgram’s associates. The scrutiny by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General comes as the DEA is struggling with repeated revelations of agent misconduct and a fentanyl crisis claiming more than 100,000 overdose deaths a year.
16 of the 37 federal programs and governmentwide challenges on GAO’s 2023 high risk list improved, according to the latest biennial report the agency published Thursday.
The SBA decision not to pursue repayment on defaulted PPP and EIDL loans worth less than $100,000 is raising some oversight eyebrows.
House and Senate lawmakers are starting to close ranks on which of several EHR modernization bills has the best chance of making it through Congress.
The only thing larger than the paperwork it sometimes takes to win a federal contract, is the amount of complaints you hear from folks both inside and outside the government contracting community.