Agency Oversight
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By investing $80 billion in the IRS over the next decade, the White House expects the agency can collect an additional $700 billion over the same period of time.
May 11, 2021 -
This week, Michael Binder spoke with Mark Greenblatt, who has been inspector general for the Interior Department since 2019.
May 10, 2021 -
More money to expand the IRS and raises for TSA officers - both are on the agenda as Congress returns to Washington this week.
May 10, 2021 -
When federal agencies make financial grants to science and technology researchers, scouring their proposals for possible conflicts of interest is a big part of the process.
May 05, 2021 -
OMB released new guidance to agencies today for how the Technology Modernization Fund board will loan out the windfall funding Congress approved.
May 04, 2021 -
The Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act would grant whistleblowers access to a federal district court jury trial if the Merit Systems Protection Board does not issue a decision in 180 days, or 240 days in complex cases.
May 04, 2021 -
A bill that would remove sexual assault investigations from the military chain of command now has 46 Senate co-sponsors, including 10 Republicans.
May 03, 2021 -
The Social Security Administration said it would begin to incrementally bring more staff back to work in person at its field offices, as senators say the workarounds the agency implemented during the pandemic are falling short.
April 30, 2021 -
The Biden administration is calling for an $80 billion investment in the IRS over the next decade, with the expectation that it will bring in $700 billion in tax revenue by shrinking the "tax gap" between what taxpayers owe and what the IRS collects every year.
April 28, 2021 -
The Postal Service is one step away from having its first fully staffed Board of Governors in years, now that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved President Joe Biden’s three nominees to serve on the board.
April 28, 2021 -
Kevin Walsh, a director on the Government Accountability Office's IT and cybersecurity team, had the latest on GAO's High Risk List on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 28, 2021 -
The purchase of package-sorting equipment is only part of $40 billion in capital investments USPS plans to make over the next decade.
April 27, 2021 -
The Economic Development Administration has given out more than a billion dollars in grant money under the CARES Act, and it gets another three billion under the American Rescue Plan.
April 27, 2021 -
The Government Publishing Office wants to make every government document accessible online. For how they'll do it, Federal Drive spoke with GPO's director Hugh Halpern.
April 26, 2021 -
The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general is working with the National Academy of Public Administration on a five-year strategic plan and a path forward for implementing nearly two dozen recommendations from the Government Accountability Office.
April 23, 2021