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In today's Federal Newscast, Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wants to know what Defense Secretary James Mattis is doing to address Pentagon waste and high contractor pay.
As Congress will soon resume debates over the future of the Veterans Choice Program, the American Federation of Government Employees is urging lawmakers to consider consequences of privatization.
Senators have two very different proposals to redesign the Veterans Choice Program. Both pieces of legislation represent very different ideologies and sides of a debate that Congress, the Veterans Affairs Department, veterans service organizations and federal employee groups have been having for the past three years.
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin offered the first glimpse of his plan to redesign the current Veterans Choice Program. He's calling it the Veterans' Coordinated Access Rewarding Experience (CARE) Program, and under the new initiative, veterans would no longer access community providers based on a set of arbitrary, administrative rules.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will examine a recent Congressional Budget Office report Thursday morning, which says government spends 17 percent more compensating its employees compared to the private sector.
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), President Donald Trump's pick to run the Office of Management and Budget, heads to a full Senate vote after getting the green light from two committees Thursday.
Companies are now for the first time sharing cyber threat indicators with the Department of Homeland Security.
The Senate left hundreds of amendments on the floor when it passed the defense authorization bill. Federal News Radio takes a look at some of the more interesting ones.
The National Treasury Employees Union joined the nation's largest federal workers union in endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.
In Wednesday's federal headlines, the White House released a cyber deterrence policy after repeated calls from Congress to do so.
The Pentagon bolsters its plea for $1 trillion in nuclear modernization funds as the weapons age and funding is limited.
Why would a giant federal union endorse a presidential dark horse this early? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it may be a message to another contender.
The Department of Homeland Security's deputy secretary said a bill that would help the private sector share information with the government is much-needed. Critics of the bill worry about citizens' privacy.
The Veterans Affairs Department reduced the number of pending disability claims by 267,000 over the last year. Veterans are also waiting 119 days less than they did a year ago for their claims to be processed.