Budget

The Senate Armed Services Committee is the first congressional entity to officially approve of a space force with their latest defense budget.

GAO estimates agencies could save billions of dollars by reducing the number of agency programs with overlapping missions, but the OMB has yet to complete a comprehensive inventory of agency programs nearly a decade after Congress mandated it. 

Federal Drive with Tom Temin heard more from David Hawkings, editor-in-chief of The Fulcrum.

House appropriators want to prevent the Pentagon from spending money to information to the JEDI Cloud contract until it meets several conditions.

The 2020 Defense budget proposed by the House appropriations committee is much lower than the Trump administration wanted.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Merit Systems Protection Board finds between 1999 and 2016, only about 7 for ever 1000 new supervisors faced consequences for failing their probationary period.

In today’s Federal Newscast, a bipartisan group in the House Veterans Affairs Committee wants more information about VA’s plans to curb sexual harassment.

The House Appropriations Committee bill moves tens of billions of dollars into the base budget, possibility setting up a sequestration showdown.

Members of the House Ways and Means Committee and IRS watchdogs have expressed concerns about the size of the agency’s tax gap — hundreds of billions of dollars that go uncollected each year — but disagree how best to close the gap.

In today’s Federal Newscast, amid shrinking budgets and workforce cuts, the IRS has also seen a reduction in tax enforcement.

Congress killed off the Office of Technology Assessment in the mid-90s, but members of the House Appropriations Committee have taken the first step toward bringing it back. The committee, in a draft of the fiscal…

Ray Bjorklund, president of BirchGrove Consulting joins host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf, to discuss the state of the federal market, including how it was impacted by the recent government shutdown.

Bloomberg Government’s Loren Duggan joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to preview the coming 2020 budget process as Congress returned from recces.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is looking to require all fixed price contracts be paid out through performance-based contractual payments.