Budget
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The Senate will continue debating the Chips Bill this week. Find out more about that and other important happenings on Capitol Hill, Tom Temin talked with Bloomberg Government deputy news director Loren Duggan.
July 25, 2022 -
TSA is confronting turnover challenges as air travel approaches pre-pandemic levels.
July 13, 2022 -
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday advanced a revised version of the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (Honoring Our PACT) Act that the Senate passed month, but addresses technical drafting errors.
July 13, 2022 -
The House will vote on the 2023 Defense authorization bill in the near future. Federal News Network compiled a list of amendments that are likely to make it to debate and are worthy of keeping an eye on.
July 12, 2022 -
A provision in the omnibus spending bill for 2022 requires the Homeland Security Department to submit a report to Congress on the impact of most pilot programs.
July 11, 2022 -
Gun regulations, inflation, and abortion may be at the forefront of talking points for members of Congress recently, but there is work to be done. Coming back from recess there are funding measures, nominations, and major legislation packages that will need to be dealt with.
July 11, 2022 -
The principal overseer of government operations and budget execution also has to go to Congress each year for its own appropriation. The Government Accountability Office uses the savings its caused throughout government as its own justification. For 2023, GAO is asking for $810 million, a nearly 13% increase from what it received for the current fiscal year.
July 06, 2022 -
This first week in July, contractors are making the start of the fiscal quarter in which the government spends the biggest portion of available dollars.
July 06, 2022 -
Reeling from two highly controversial Supreme Court decisions and some revelatory hearings concerning the Capitol break-in, Congress is in recess this week. But not everything has stopped on the Hill.
June 27, 2022 -
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ backlog has nearly 5.2 million cases and approximately 8.5 million cases are pending, according the agency's Ombudsman Phyllis Coven.
June 22, 2022 -
Agencies are expected to incorporate President's Management Agenda initiatives into their multi-year strategic planning, some of which, including the Commerce Department, had an easier time doing thanks to early insights from the Office of Management and Budget.
June 20, 2022 -
The House is sticking closely to the Biden budget and to appropriators but the Senate Armed Services Committee is feeling bolder in what it is approving in its legislation.
June 20, 2022 -
The Air Force is exploring multiple options to ensure the service gets the products it wants and helps industry where it is struggling along the way. The war in Ukraine, supply chain shortages, COVID and inflation are all throwing a wrench in pricing and contracting.
June 16, 2022 -
Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) said the IRS budget outlined in the draft bill would help the agency "provide better customer service and crack down on big corporations and the wealthy who are not paying their fair share in taxes."
June 16, 2022 -
A whistleblower program at the Internal Revenue Service that pays tipsters a portion of the money they help recover saw a slump in payouts last year.
June 13, 2022