Biden administration
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President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Census Bureau has told a Senate committee that he'd bring transparency and independence to the nation’s largest statistical agency
July 15, 2021 -
The Office of Personnel Management is developing an assessment tool for agencies, designed to help them evaluate the current state of their diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility efforts. Those reviews are a key part of the Biden administration's recent diversity and inclusion executive order.
July 14, 2021 -
President Joe Biden is nominating West Virginia’s former health commissioner as the nation’s top anti-drug official, tapping a doctor who served on the front lines of the nation’s opioid epidemic
July 13, 2021 -
Mary Gibert is GSA's federal transition coordinator and associate administrator for the Office of Civil Rights.
July 07, 2021 -
The State Department makes a big policy change to passports. All federal fighters will likely make no less than $15 dollars an hour. And Guantanamo Bay is on the chopping block — again.
July 01, 2021 -
The Biden administration is expecting agencies to back up future budget requests with data and program performance metrics --- or at least provide a plan to gather this information.
June 30, 2021 -
Workhorse alleged the USPS vehicle award recipient submitted a prototype vehicle “entirely different” than the one selected for production, and that the winning design “skipped the prototype phase altogether.”
June 29, 2021 -
Lawmakers in the U.S. House plan to vote this week on a more than $500 billion water and transportation package.
June 28, 2021 -
The executive order, which President Joe Biden signed Friday, addresses everything from unpaid federal internships and pay equity for members of underserved communities to diversity and inclusion training and gender-neutral pronouns.
June 28, 2021 -
President Joe Biden has nominated Raymond Limon, chief human capital officer at the Interior Department, and federal employment attorney Cathy Harris to fill vacant seats at the Merit Systems Protection Board.
June 24, 2021 -
Vice President Kamala Harris broke a 50-50 tie Tuesday to confirm Kiran Ahuja as the new Office of Personnel Management director.
June 22, 2021 -
A crucial week's ahead for Congress. Democrats say they'll go to reconciliation to pass a $6 trillion package, if Republicans don't go along.
June 21, 2021 -
Under the 2020 National AI Initiative Act, the task force will look at how to expand access to AI education and other critical resources. The task force includes members from NIST, the Energy Department and top universities.
June 15, 2021 -
Looking at Capitol Hill this week, you can almost see two Congresses: The one working through ordinary items like confirmation hearings, and the one deeply stalemated over the big questions like how much money to commit to anything.
June 14, 2021 -
The Biden administration has proposed showering every federal agency with expanded money, with the exceptions of the departments of Homeland Security and Defense.
June 14, 2021