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President Joe Biden has nominated former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley to lead the Social Security Administration. If confirmed, O'Malley would run one of the biggest social programs in the nation and grapple with the surrounding uncertainty over its funding. Roughly 70 million people — including retirees, disabled people and children — receive Social Security benefits. O’Malley served as Maryland’s governor from 2007 to 2015 and was Baltimore mayor for two terms. O'Malley was a Democratic presidential candidate in 2016 but has ruled out running again. Biden on Wednesday said O’Malley “has spent his career making government more accessible and transparent, while keeping the American people at the heart of his work.”
July 26, 2023 -
With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, that means a large amount of investment from both the private and public sector. With much of it going to local infrastructure and manufacturing endeavors, it can be tough for people, especially private citizens, to find out where that money is going.
July 25, 2023 -
U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Julius S. Caesar (Ret.) joins host Aileen Black on this week's Leaders and Legends.
July 25, 2023 -
The nominee to lead Cyber Command says the new authorities will put CYBERCOM on par with the likes of U.S. Special Operations Command from a programming and budgeting perspective.
July 24, 2023 -
The IRS has ended its policy of revenue officers conducting unannounced home or business visits to address taxpayer debts.
July 24, 2023 -
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy tells Federal News Network in an interview that USPS may need to hire about 300,000 employees over the next decade just to keep its current headcount. But the overall size of the future USPS workforce is subject to change.
July 24, 2023 -
No American would stand on a soapbox and shout out how easy it is to deal with the federal government. A small office deep within the White House apparatus has been coaxing agencies to reduce what's officially known as administrative burden on citizens.
July 21, 2023 -
The 2003 crash of the Space Shuttle Columbia sparked big changes at NASA. That's when its Engineering and Safety Center got established, in order to provide safety oversight and a culture more attuned to safety.
July 20, 2023 -
OIRA's latest directive tells agencies to deepen their interactions with the public on regulations, as it seeks to reduce government paperwork burdens.
July 19, 2023 -
Thanks to that extensive survey by the Government Accountability Office, we know just how empty federal offices really are. None of them is more than half full. That fact has depressed the market for certain commodities a lot of vendors counted on each year as a kind of annuity.
July 18, 2023 -
It's one thing to want new infrastructure, but it's another thing to get a project through a nearly impenetrable thicket of federal, state and local environmental rules, not to mention the almost inevitable lawsuits.
July 18, 2023 -
Warner says passport backlog ‘not sustainable,’ as State Dept aims for pre-pandemic processing timesSen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) says the current wait times for passports are “not sustainable," and urged the bureau to take more aggressive steps to address a major backlog.
July 14, 2023 -
The Copyright Office's equivalent of small claims court has helped hundreds of people solve disputes in its first year. The three-member Copyright Claims Board will help in cases worth up to $30,000.
July 14, 2023 -
The annual Feds Feed Families campaign has raised nearly 100 million pounds of food since 2009. The 2023 campaign, just a few weeks in, has the goal of gathering more than eight million pounds of food this year.
July 14, 2023 -
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture are two of the latest to announce return-to-office plans, but the changes only apply to agency managers and supervisors.
July 14, 2023