Budget

With this year’s tax season set to start Monday, NTEU has renewed concerns that the IRS, after a decade of budget cuts, has fewer resources to tackle a growing workload.

Thirty-four lawmakers are asking DoD to provide information about where the money will come from.

Ryan Woodward, the Director of the Franchise Budget Office for Infrastructure Operations in the Office of Information and Technology at VA, said the agency has spent the last few years learning how to apply Technology Business Management (TBM) standards and now are starting to see the results of that effort.

Rebecca Weirick, the executive director of the Services Acquisition Office of in the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement, said category management helped the service save almost 10% on contracts that was put toward readiness and modernization in 2019.

Esper’s memo told military services, combatant commands and Defense agencies to get ready for another iteration of reforms meant to cut lower-priority costs.

Can Congress do the seemingly impossible, such as getting 2021 appropriations bills done before the end of the current fiscal year?

In today’s Federal Newscast, the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act mandates all three branches have an assistant secretary for installations, energy, and environment.

Data analysts at Govini have been looking at this issue and Senior Vice President Jim Mitre joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share insights.

As agencies plan for the next year’s programs, budgets, resources and activities, a critical regulatory update may be flying under the radar.

With little time to spare before the deadline, President Donald Trump signed two shutdown-averting spending bills into law and a 3.1% federal pay raise. He also signed the annual defense authorization bill, which includes a new paid parental leave program for most federal employees.

White collar federal civil servants are on track to get a 3.1% pay raise next year — the largest in a decade for 1.2 million civil servants.

The Senate has sent two minibus spending bills to the president’s desk for his signature. President Donald Trump must sign both by Friday to avoid a second government shutdown in 2019.

The Director of Strategic Issues at the Government Accountability Office, Kris Nguyen, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for some of the threats to Treasury bond sales.

The 2020 spending bills urge the Social Security Administration to reinstate its telework program for operations employees, but they’re silent on collective bargaining protections and funding for the Bureau of Land Management’s upcoming relocation.