Agency Oversight
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May 13, 2020 -
FEMA's goal of strengthening its financial transparency stems from the agency’s 2018-2022 strategic plan, which seeks to improve grants management and improve data analytics.
May 13, 2020 -
A provision proposed for the 2021 National Defense Authorization bill would undo a 2018 law, having to do with when departing defense officials can support lobbying.
May 12, 2020 -
A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked the Defense Department for more details about its plans to continue to provide a technology and cyber leadership program after the Pentagon ended its 30-year-old CIO development curriculum.
May 12, 2020 -
A group that includes many National Park Service former employees and supporters is urging the Trump administration to go slow when it comes to reopening America's public wilderness.
May 11, 2020 -
The Census Bureau has launched a new survey designed to track the effects of the pandemic.
May 11, 2020 -
The Small Business Administration was given a seemingly impossible task when lawmakers appropriated two tranches of money to loan businesses in March and April.
May 11, 2020 -
The Postal Service on Friday estimated that a $10 billion loan guaranteed under the CARES Act would give the agency enough cash to operate through May 2021. That loan buys the agency more time to…
May 08, 2020 -
Louis, DeJoy, the next postmaster general, will have to come up with a long-term business plan for an agency that's long been in dire financial straits.
May 08, 2020 -
GAO's Director of Homeland Security and Justice issues, Triana McNeil, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a review.
May 07, 2020 -
Professional Managers Association President Chad Hooper said some areas of the IRS mission are moving ahead, but others will take “a very long time” to return to normal.
May 07, 2020 -
The USPS Board of Governors on Wednesday announced that supply-chain and distribution center executive Louis DeJoy will serve as the next postmaster general, starting June 15.
May 06, 2020 -
Former USPS Inspector General David Williams resigned from his position as the vice-chairman of the agency’s Board of Governors at the end of April.
May 06, 2020 -
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is concerned funds won't make it to the subcontractors who need it most.
May 06, 2020 -
The Conservative Framework for Recovery, Accountability and Prosperity includes a section on how to improve efficiency and accountability of the government itself, and its response to the coronavirus.
May 04, 2020