Agency Oversight
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In today's Federal Newscast, House and Senate lawmakers have taken steps to prevent a White House proposal which would result in about 1,000 layoffs at the U.S. Forest Service.
June 05, 2019 -
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. When the Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general released a report detailing bad conditions at the Washington,…
June 05, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office says agency spending on products and services in 2018 reached its highest level in seven years.
June 04, 2019 -
A 2014 incident in which a crazed person jumped over the fence and ran deep into the White House exposed what a review panel later termed catastrophic failures in training at the Secret Service.
June 04, 2019 -
The House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee included a pay raise for civilian employees in its 2020 spending bill.
June 03, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a White House plan to take away some workers rights from civilian Defense employees was denied support from the Senate.
May 30, 2019 -
AFGE is calling for “immediate transfer” of more than 2,000 federal employees at a multiagency facility in St. Louis with a history of hazardous materials mismanagement, including lead and asbestos.
May 29, 2019 -
Rebecca Shea, director of GAO's forensic audits and investigation service, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the findings.
May 28, 2019 -
Under the IDEA Act, agency officials see a clearer path forward on making .gov websites more user-friendly.
May 28, 2019 -
The company previously indicated an unwillingness to issue the refunds, saying that doing so could amount to an admission of wrongdoing.
May 27, 2019 -
Margaret Weichert, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, acknowledged Tuesday the administration may need more time to carry out the proposed merger with the General Services Administration.
May 22, 2019 -
GAO estimates agencies could save billions of dollars by reducing the number of agency programs with overlapping missions, but the OMB has yet to complete a comprehensive inventory of agency programs nearly a decade after Congress mandated it.
May 21, 2019 -
The IRS reported auditing nearly 1 million tax returns in FY 2018, about 0.5% of 196 million tax returns filed during that year's filing season.
May 20, 2019 -
The Government Accountability Office has issued guidelines to help Hill staffers that have to deal with whistleblowers.
May 20, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Merit Systems Protection Board finds between 1999 and 2016, only about 7 for ever 1000 new supervisors faced consequences for failing their probationary period.
May 20, 2019