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Watchdog says Congress should strengthen PPP oversight before a new COVID relief bill

Congress could still take up some sort of pandemic relief bill in the lame duck session. The Senate has been pondering a new payroll protection plan worth…

Agency Oversight

Pandemic workload brought IRS to the limit of doing more with less

Management

Trump signs continuing resolution, averting government shutdown

Government Shutdown

Government’s recent track record with IDIQ contracts has been spotty

Contracting

A man mails a letter on Saturday, August 22, 2020 in Whitehall, Ohio. Postal workers and supporters across central Ohio gathered at Post Offices across the region to protest actions by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy including the removal of sorting machines which has led to mail delivery delays in some states. Critics of these policies fear they will create delays with absentee and mail-in ballots during the upcoming general election. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

DeJoy defends USPS efforts to fix ‘broken business model’ following court rulings

Agency Oversight

IGs on pandemic oversight board warn job well done still means billions in fraud

Agency Oversight

GAO pleading with agencies to follow recommendations to improve pandemic response

Federal Newscast

How do you give stimulus payments to people with no bank account?

The rapid payout program spawned by the government’s coronavirus response legislation has sharpened an old problem. A small but persistent percentage of…

Technology

USPTO director talks intellectual property, telework in the COVID era

USPTO Director Andrei Iancu explained to how the telework experience helped in the pandemic when everyone was forced home. But first, Temin asked him about…

Federal Drive

Pandemic-fueled TSP participants are withdrawing and borrowing thousands of dollars

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast: Thousands of participants, embracing the CARES Act, have taken money out of their TSPs. Furloughs at USCIS have been canceled or, perhaps, just postponed. And Chad Wolf might finally get a permanent job, after serving as acting DHS secretary since November.

Watchdog says Congress should strengthen PPP oversight before a new COVID relief bill

SBA ordered to release names of all recipients of COVID-19 related loans

How well did the IRS handle pandemic?

Pentagon IG looking into how Defense Department spent coronavirus relief funds

What did the Pentagon spend its coronavirus relief on?

Pandemic workload brought IRS to the limit of doing more with less

Trump signs continuing resolution, averting government shutdown

Government’s recent track record with IDIQ contracts has been spotty

DeJoy defends USPS efforts to fix ‘broken business model’ following court rulings

IGs on pandemic oversight board warn job well done still means billions in fraud

GAO pleading with agencies to follow recommendations to improve pandemic response

How do you give stimulus payments to people with no bank account?

USPTO director talks intellectual property, telework in the COVID era

Pandemic-fueled TSP participants are withdrawing and borrowing thousands of dollars

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