Agency Oversight
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The 2023 White House budget request includes more funding for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility initiatives at the Office of Personnel Management.
March 30, 2022 -
Somehow the national debt has managed to reach $28 trillion. But, where is it? It's in a set of electronic schedules maintained by the Treasury Department's Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
March 30, 2022 -
The administration, as part of its fiscal 2023 budget request, expects the money would fund an expansion of USPS delivery capacity in underserved areas and support for vote-by-mail, including making ballots postage-free and reducing the cost of other election-related mail for jurisdictions and voters.
March 29, 2022 -
The Trump Hotel is one major step closer to changing hands, now that the General Services Administration has cleared a buyer for the lease to the historic federal building.
March 25, 2022 -
CISA has two years to design one of the most significant cyber regulatory programs in history.
March 25, 2022 -
House Republican lawmakers are concerned that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s lagging re-entry plans will delay results on discrimination charges.
March 24, 2022 -
Good behavior can get a con out of prison. Good behavior can also get your program off the Government Accountability Office's never-ending list of high-risk federal programs.
March 23, 2022 -
Presidents make sure their and their party's policies are carried out in large measure by whom they appoint. Each time, though, it seems like the confirmation process goes slower and slower.
March 23, 2022 -
Daniella Datskovska, the president of the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management, said a new practice guide breaks down ERM into four focus areas to help agencies implement these practices.
March 22, 2022 -
The Environmental Protection Agency is the latest agency planning on bringing its workforce back to the office on a phased basis starting in May.
March 21, 2022 -
The IRS expects new hiring authority will allow it to bring new employees onboard within 40 to 45 days, rather than several months, to deal with a major backlog of tax returns and correspondence.
March 18, 2022 -
All the General Services Administration was trying to do was get new office space for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Rhode Island. But, in a word, if bungled the procurement. The inspector general said so. So did the courts.
March 17, 2022 -
The Senior Executives Association, which represents the government's highest ranking career officials, is especially glad the Merit Systems Protection Board has a quorum of two members. The Senate confirmed them a couple of weeks ago, ending five years without a quorum.
March 17, 2022 -
This week, Michael Binder spoke with Eric Soskin, inspector general for the Transportation Department.
March 17, 2022 -
The new guidance emphasizes a "presumption of openness," but agencies continue to struggle to process FOIA requests and make a dent in the backlog.
March 16, 2022