Agency Oversight
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The Postal Service, having struggled with employee availability issues since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, is telling Congress it has the stable workforce it needs to meet high expectations for this year’s holiday season.
November 17, 2022 -
The Veterans Benefits Administration is looking to bring several thousand hires onboard to “maximize its capacity”, as it prepares to implement legislation that will make millions of new veterans eligible for VA health care and benefits.
November 15, 2022 -
The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is being forced out of his job leading the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, according to two people familiar with the matter. Chris Magnus has been on the job less than a year. He was told to resign or be fired, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter who were not authorized to discuss it publicly and Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council. The ultimatum comes after Republican gains in midterm elections are likely to lead to more congressional scrutiny.
November 11, 2022 -
The Veterans Affairs Department is making progress on an effort to digitize military service records for veterans, as part of its implementation of a major VA health care bill signed into law this summer.
November 11, 2022 -
The IRS, setting course on a decade-long push to rebuild its workforce and modernize its legacy IT, may soon be led by a figure that previously steered the agency through difficult times.
November 10, 2022 -
The Postal Service is falling behind on a plan to reverse its long-term financial losses, citing record inflation and what it calls unsustainable contributions to a federal retirement fund that covers some postal retirees.
November 10, 2022 -
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says the postal service gave a solid performance in delivering mail-in ballots for the midterm elections and is ready to dive into the crush of holiday deliveries. DeJoy told the Board of Governors on Thursday that 11.3 billion pieces of mail and 567 million packages were delivered last month. He says the Postal Service has stabilized its workforce and is ready for the next challenge of delivering holiday cards and parcels. The Postal Service announced an adjusted annual operating loss of $473 million for the fiscal year when a one-time adjustment under the Postal Service Reform Act was excluded from the results.
November 10, 2022 -
There's a special committee of the Council of Inspectors General that's supposed to take action when inspectors general fail to the exercise of good conduct.
November 10, 2022 -
A federal attorney steeped in administrative law now has a chance to influence it. Fernando Laguarda is general counsel at AmeriCorps.
November 10, 2022 -
President Biden recently appointed four new members to the 10-member council of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
November 09, 2022 -
The Veterans Affairs Department is in the midst of a five year pilot program. It's called VET TEC.
November 09, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: Boasting a 91% success rate, the IRS rakes in $31 billion dollars from tax cheats. A new director has been named at the NIH to run NCATS. And a House committee moves to help VA employees concerned about the mishmash of state abortion laws.
November 09, 2022 -
Agencies are also considering new FOIA tools that leverage automation and machine learning, while a "FOIA wizard" is in the works.
November 08, 2022 -
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee made up of inspectors general recently launched a group of dashboards to help people see which agencies got how much money and where it went.
November 07, 2022 -
Elliott Johnson Jr., a senior management analyst in the HUD’s Office of the Chief Risk Officer, said the agency updated its front end risk assessment (FERA) policy in September, including two years of lessons learned.
November 03, 2022