Agency Oversight
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Matt Weir from the Treasury Department joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the findings' highlights.
March 15, 2019 -
It's an unfortunate but when you have a workforce of 2 million people, a few of them will commit harassment, retaliate against whistleblowers or drag their partisan politics to the office.
March 14, 2019 -
Lawmakers and Trump administration officials remain divided over whether rolling back postal unions’ right to collectively bargain over compensation, as recommended by the White House’s Postal Task Force, would put the agency on firmer financial footing.
March 14, 2019 -
Cheryl Coleman from EPA's Office of Emergency Management, and Delores Rodgers-Smith from the agency's Region 4 Resource Conservation and Restoration Division joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more.
March 13, 2019 -
The Justice Department’s Office of Information Policy believes fiscal 2018 will mark yet another record year for the volume of new Freedom of Information Act requests filed by the public.
March 12, 2019 -
The Trump administration’s 2020 budget proposal for government spending gives a big boost to the Pentagon and other security-related agencies, while calling for a cut of more than $2.7 trillion in federal civilian spending over the next ten years.
March 12, 2019 -
Since December the Justice Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have been working together under a memorandum of understanding.
March 12, 2019 -
Members of Congress may be rude, but the Government Accountability Office, the federal oversight agency, sticks to the facts.
March 11, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a group of nearly 40 senators are urging the appropriations committee to include back pay for federal contractors impacted by the last government shutdown, in an upcoming disaster relief package.
March 11, 2019 -
With the resumption of moon missions and plans to launch people to Mars, sustaining life and good health in space and for a long time is becoming a federal priority.
March 11, 2019 -
Too often, Veterans Health Administration officials aren't aware of adverse actions against practitioners or don't follow policy when they do know, says Kathy Larin at the Government Accountability Office.
March 11, 2019 -
The Treasury Department Bureau of the Fiscal Service looks to print millions of fewer paper checks by 2020. But what happens to the employees hired decades ago, who used to print checks?
March 08, 2019 -
Despite persistent hiring challenges at Customs and Border Protection, Accenture Federal Services said the recruiting and customer service centers it built as part of its multi-million dollar contract with CBP will set the agency up for future success.
March 08, 2019 -
Suzi Connor, the chief information officer at CDC, said a new three-pronged approach will change the way the agency manages and uses technology.
March 08, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, lawmakers want to hear from the Indian Health Service's acting director about what he's done to improve on an apparent failure of the agency to provide quality health care.
March 08, 2019