Budget
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It is budget season on Capitol Hill and agency leaders are busy defending their 2025 spending plans in front of the appropriations committees.
May 21, 2024 -
While trying to manage sluggish staffing numbers, NLRB has simultaneously experienced a sharp 35% increase in its workload over the last six months.
May 13, 2024 -
The Senate managed to pass an important bill last week, authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration. That makes the House "it," so to speak.
May 13, 2024 -
Agencies have made progress ushering in more early-career employees in the federal workforce, but goals from the Biden administration aim to things up a notch.
May 06, 2024 -
“There's nothing magic about construction for the Marine Corps. The challenge is the program budget process,” said Rear Adm. Dean VanderLey.
May 03, 2024 -
Artificial intelligence, space technology projects and integrated sensing and cyber efforts make up the majority of the Pentagon's S&T budget request.
April 30, 2024 -
The watchdog group found that military personal consistently get less than six hours of sleep each night, which could compromise safety.
April 08, 2024 -
The Biden administration's 2025 budget request includes $1.6 billion for the Census Bureau and an increase of $218 million from what was just enacted for 2024.
April 02, 2024 -
After a hiring freeze, Commissioner Martin O’Malley is readying plans to rebuild the Social Security Administration workforce as quickly as possible.
March 25, 2024 -
In voting last week, Congress managed to fund the half of government it had not already.
March 25, 2024 -
President Biden has signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills that Congress just passed, ending the threat of a potential partial government shutdown.
March 23, 2024 -
Senate passes $1.2 trillion funding package in early morning vote, ending threat of partial shutdownThe second of two large spending packages keeps agencies funded for the rest of 2024. The bill now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
March 23, 2024 -
The Office of Justice Programs is among the biggest grant-making operations in the federal government. It administers $5 billion in grants to several agencies.
March 22, 2024 -
Lawmakers agreed to increase the amount of money DoD can reallocate without prior permission from Congress, but rejected other calls for budget flexibility.
March 22, 2024 -
Pay at TSA was reportedly one of the crunch-time issues for lawmakers negotiating the contentious fiscal 2024 homeland security spending bill.
March 21, 2024