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Despite a $500 million request from the White House and the House initially appropriating $50 million for fiscal 2022, lawmakers decided not to add any new funding to the Technology Modernization Fund.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into a U.S. Postal Service plan to replace its aging mail trucks with mostly gasoline-powered vehicles
Congress, as it does every year, crammed a lot of spending when it whipped up that so called omnibus appropriations bill.
In today's Federal Newscast, House Democrats seek to block the Postal Service from buying mostly gas-powered vehicles as part of its next generation fleet.
The House-Senate appropriations agreement leaves out a DoD request to significantly expand a pilot program to test "colorless" appropriations for software and technology development.
Whistleblowers across the government have gotten increasingly more support and protection over the years. Except for those in the secretive intelligence community.
The $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2022 directs agencies to brief lawmakers on a variety of federal workforce issues in the coming months.
A long-awaited reform bill that would save the Postal Service more than $100 billion is headed to President Joe Biden’s desk.
The Technology Modernization Fund made its first awards since September and only second set of awards from the $1 billion Congress allocated in the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act.
Besides the omnibus budget package, Congress is dealing with a few other issues this week, like postal reform. But it's a short week, according to Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Senate takes a shot at the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers.
In just a few weeks the annual budget dance, this time for 2023, will start. People who follow these things closely predict the White House will request only a very small increase for the Defense Department, knowing Congress will plus it up anyway.
Financial management problems at the Defense Department show up year after year. Throw in problems at the Small Business Administration and a few other persistent issues, and it's impossible to accurately assess the state of federal finances. And that's the conclusion from the latest look at the government's consolidated statements conducted by the Government Accountability Office.
Whether you are (or should be) for Postal Reform or against the Windfall and Offset laws, help is coming. John Hatton, staff VP for NARFE, will discuss the status of these on Your Turn.