Agency Oversight
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The Biden administration is looking to the federal workforce to set an example for the rest of the country’s labor force by having more federal employees return to the office in April.
March 03, 2022 -
After digging out of a massive backlog of background investigations, agencies are walking a tightrope to modernize a decades-old process.
March 02, 2022 -
Financial management problems at the Defense Department show up year after year. Throw in problems at the Small Business Administration and a few other persistent issues, and it's impossible to accurately assess the state of federal finances. And that's the conclusion from the latest look at the government's consolidated statements conducted by the Government Accountability Office.
March 02, 2022 -
A federal appeals court finds the Postal Service isn't meeting legal requirements to ensure managers and supervisors are paid close to what they could make in the private sector.
February 28, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the departments of Defense and Labor and the Small Business Administration stopped the federal government from fully understanding the state of their finances.
February 28, 2022 -
The U.S. Treasury Department has concluded that more than 80% of the billions of dollars in federal rental assistance during the pandemic went to low-income tenants
February 25, 2022 -
Federal prison employees say they're being bullied and threatened for raising concerns about serious misconduct and claim it's indicative of widespread problems in the Bureau of Prisons
February 24, 2022 -
The Government Accountability Office said in a new report that the new Trust Funds Federal Financial System (FFS) will not go live in October 2023.
February 24, 2022 -
The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding Attorney General Merrick Garland take immediate action to reform the beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons
February 23, 2022 -
Pentagon planners know the U.S. military needs new technologies if it hopes to stay on top. But many of the innovation initiatives don't gain scale because of the 1960s-era planning, programming, budgeting and execution (PPBE) process.
February 22, 2022 -
The Biden administration pulled U.S. troops and pretty much everything else out of Afghanistan months ago. But the work of the special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction goes on.
February 22, 2022 -
The IRS, after weeks of pushback from Congress and the public, is now allowing taxpayers to sign up for an online account without the use of any biometric data, including facial recognition.
February 21, 2022 -
The U.S. isn't quite out of Afghanistan. There's a lot of oversight left to do, which might provide be the biggest lessons learned
February 21, 2022 -
Classified information has been found in the 15 boxes of White House records that were stored at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence
February 19, 2022 -
The IRS, already dealing with a significant backlog of tax returns and taxpayer correspondence, is scrapping plans to consolidate the number of facilities that process its paper workload.
February 17, 2022