Agency Oversight
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House passes $460 billion package of spending bills. Senate expected to act before shutdown deadlineThe Senate is expected to take up the legislation before a midnight Friday shutdown deadline. And lawmakers are negotiating a second package of six bills.
March 06, 2024 -
The Defense Department operates a slew of intelligence activities and programs. It even has a senior intelligence oversight official, who has come up with more
March 06, 2024 -
The George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum now has a new director for the first time in 20 years.
March 04, 2024 -
A long-running legal dispute between USPS and the union that represents its postal police force heads back to a third-party arbitrator to settle the issue.
February 29, 2024 -
The IRS is reaching out to high-income individuals who haven’t filed a federal tax return over the past seven years.
February 29, 2024 -
Agencies need to do more to train employees to try to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, according to a new GAO report.
February 29, 2024 -
The Homeland Security Department put together an inaccurate AI uses list, according to the Government Accountability Office, which found a few problems.
February 28, 2024 -
Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.) wants to interview VA to find out when leadership knew about the sexual harassment complaints and why they didn’t take action sooner.
February 27, 2024 -
Whistleblowers filed more than 700 lawsuits under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act in fiscal 2023. That's the most since 2014.
February 26, 2024 -
Dozens of current and former employees of the New York City Housing Authority were arrested earlier this month, slapped with federal charges of bribery and extortion for taking kickbacks from companies getting housing-development contracts. The Housing and Urban Development's Office of Inspector General (HUD IG) helped conduct the multi-agency investigation leading to the charges.
February 23, 2024 -
Can the federal government resolve a long-running dispute with the Texas National Guard. And if it could, should it? The Guard, under Gov. Greg Abbott, has been running its own border-protection operation, at times keeping Customs and Border Protection out of the way.
February 23, 2024 -
The BOP has huge responsibilities in the care and feeding of over 150,000 prisoners in its care and over 36,000 staff. It has an $8.7 billion annual budget and houses some of the most infamous criminals in the United States. It also houses nearly 50,000 inmates who are low and minimum-security prisoners, many of whom are eligible for earlier release due to the First Step Act.
February 21, 2024 -
Whistleblower protection legislation often has bipartisan support. Yet it seems to take forever. A bill to extend federal protections to contractors was supposed to get marked up in January in the House Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. But now it is sidelined.
February 21, 2024 -
The Pentagon’s IG said Defense vendors are getting millions of dollars they did not earn because of shortcomings in how DoD manages cost-plus contracts.
February 20, 2024 -
Linda Miller, the founder and CEO of Audient Group, LLC and a former deputy executive director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, explains why Congress needs to act now to create a centralized antifraud office within Treasury with the tools to prevent fraud and establish antifraud funding for new and emergency programs to give them the ability to combat fraud from the start.
February 15, 2024