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What one longtime government watchdog group recommends for the 118th Congress

Barely two months old, the 118th Congress is getting advice from all over. For decades, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has issued a list of…

Congress

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Veteran Affairs building near the White House in Washington, Feb. 14, 2018. An internal watchdog's investigation has found that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tennis tickets and likely wrongly used taxpayer money to cover his wife's airfare for an 11-day European trip. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Veterans Affairs campuses are designed to open. Maybe too open.

Facilities/Construction

At least the congressional budget hearings are following regular order

Congress

Bill reintroduced to establish IG office for agency that manages TSP

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington. Two high-ranking Trump political appointees at the EPA engaged in fraudulent payroll activities, including payments to employees after they were fired and to one of the officials when he was absent from work, that cost the agency more than $130,000, a report by an internal watchdog says. Former chief of staff Ryan Jackson and former White House liaison Charles Munoz submitted “official timesheets and personnel forms that contained materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements

EPA renews a 15-year-old program to save millions of gallons of water

People

DISA Defense Information Systems Agency Headquarters

DISA fields a classified version of a very widely used open platform

Technology

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Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director, appears before a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Rebuilding the Office of Personnel Management will take years longer

OPM Reorganization

New House subcommittee chairman pledges to conduct rigorous oversight of CISA

Federal Newscast

Should feds even have TikTok on their personal devices?

People

A veterans advocacy group updates its guidance to take the Pact Act into account

Veterans Affairs

Lots of new developments on the whistleblower front

U.S. News

Lawmakers take aim at changing how agencies buy software

In today’s Federal Newscast: Raising duplication issues, lawmakers takes aim at changing how agencies buy software. Firms that get CHIPS Act money might…

Federal Newscast

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In the post-pandemic era, the government is still perfecting its bio-responses

Given everything that happened in the pandemic of 2020, one would think the government would have learned a thing or two about bio responses. It has learned…

Agency Oversight

FILE - The Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in Washington, April 5, 2009. The federal Department of Health and Human Services is failing to meet its responsibilities for leading the nation’s response to public health emergencies ranging from the coronavirus pandemic, to extreme weather disasters and even potential bioterror attacks, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog says in a report Thursday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

This head of an obscure multibillion-dollar agency, improves health care for millions of Americans

Health News

He runs a program most people never heard of, but it has got a $5 billion budget. He is the head of the Bureau of Primary Health Care, nested in the Health Resources and Services Administration, itself a component of the Health and Human Services Department.