Agency Oversight
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DHS gets the most FOIA requests out of any federal agency, and most of them are related to immigration records.
June 09, 2022 -
We now know, with ever-mounting evidence, that pandemic relief spending resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in wasted spending. The same could happen with infrastructure spending unless agencies tighten up their oversight.
June 09, 2022 -
Former OMB Director Russ Vought and current president of the Center for Renewing America, sent a letter to OMB detailing why he believes the current approach to implementing the March 2021 executive order would put federal employees in jeopardy of breaking the law.
June 08, 2022 -
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) has been doling out money to agencies for special projects since 2018. The first cohort of projects were supposed to show they would be able to produce enough savings to pay back the TMF.
June 08, 2022 -
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a recent report, found that agencies are meeting some narrower hiring targets, but falling short of hiring employees with a broad set of disabilities.
June 07, 2022 -
The Administrative Conference of the United States is concerned with how federal agencies carry out laws, so it launched a study to examine disclosure rules of agency legal activities.
June 03, 2022 -
The American Federation of Government Employees thinks it could lead to wholesale reductions in the civilian ranks.
June 03, 2022 -
Federal employees who get into legal trouble can, under certain circumstances, accept financial help from legal expense funds. Now the Office of Government Ethics has proposed a revision to the rules for legal expense funds.
June 01, 2022 -
The Energy Department has a backlog of nuclear waste clean up responsibilities, with material dating back to World War II. But continuing turnover in program leadership means things just aren't happening.
May 25, 2022 -
Some members of Congress believe former President Donald Trump had a conflict of interest. As a private citizen, Trump had leased, from the General Services Administration, the old Post Office Pavilion. It became a Trump Hotel.
May 23, 2022 -
The Department of Health and Human Services has some new authorities to hopefully help resolve the nationwide shortage of baby formula.
May 23, 2022 -
Several hundred IRS employees over the past decade violated the agency’s policies around unauthorized access to sensitive taxpayer information.
May 19, 2022 -
The Postal Service is looking to restructure its network of facilities in its delivery network as part of an ongoing effort to improve its long-term financial health.
May 18, 2022 -
Federal oversight bodies often look for waste, fraud and abuse. But another trio of witches also bedevils the government: Fragmentation, overlap and duplication (FOD).
May 18, 2022 -
The Biden administration is looking to accelerate the pace of federal permitting and environmental reviews for thousands of infrastructure projects under the $1 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
May 17, 2022