Agency Oversight
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The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to overturn a 40-year-old decision that is come to be known as the Chevron Deference.
June 06, 2024 -
The House Appropriations Committee proposes cutting IRS funding by nearly 18% and zero out funding for its Direct File platform.
June 05, 2024 -
The numbers keep getting bigger, but it’s the same old story. Duplication and overlap in federal programs wastes billion. In its latest annual report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds 112 ways Congress and agencies…
June 05, 2024 -
During a hearing before the the House Judiciary Committee, Garland condemned what he said are “extremely dangerous falsehoods” being peddled about the FBI.
June 04, 2024 -
The CDC is now telling most teleworking employees to come into the office at least twice per two-week pay period. But some IT and data employees are exempt.
June 03, 2024 -
The FTC, HHS, and Justice Department want tips from the public about antitrust violations in the health care industry.
May 31, 2024 -
The IRS Direct File system that lets households file their federal taxes online — and for free — is here to stay, after taxpayers tested the platform.
May 30, 2024 -
The number of serious postal crimes — including burglaries, robberies, assaults, and homicides — increased almost every fiscal year between 2017 and 2023.
May 29, 2024 -
One lawmaker says the bill to empower the HHS IG would address "how we are setting standards for American patients’ healthcare data."
May 29, 2024 -
The Veterans Affairs office of inspector general has revealed a fundamental way to improve care. It has to do with assessing patients about to be discharged.
May 24, 2024 -
Worst places to work in the federal government show the erosive qualities of underfunding and understaffing. Leaders have to get up on their hind legs.
May 23, 2024 -
Transportation safety in the United States has grown safer, thanks in part to work A GAO superstar. She's overseen work in crash test dummies preventing wrecks.
May 23, 2024 -
A new Justice Department resource center will help jurisdictions carry out firearms laws to keep guns from people deemed a danger to themselves and others.
May 23, 2024 -
The Labor Department is embarking on a state-by-state refresh of unemployment insurance (UI) systems pushed to their limits at the height of the pandemic.
May 21, 2024 -
USPS is rejecting calls for its regulator to scrutinize network modernization plans — although it concedes such a review may be legally required later on.
May 20, 2024