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In today's Federal Newscast, two members of Congress want the White House to save all records on the firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.
May 18, 2020 -
What a week for the Thrift Savings Plan. The TSP offered more details on how its participants can take loans and withdrawals during the coronavirus pandemic, and the international fund faces a different fate.
May 18, 2020 -
In the last couple of weeks, GAO has reissued reminders on open recommendations. It's a long list.
May 14, 2020 -
The Small Business Administration was given a seemingly impossible task when lawmakers appropriated two tranches of money to loan businesses in March and April.
May 11, 2020 -
Over the past five months, there have been some major changes to the tax code that could impact the amount you pay and how effectively you use the money in your Thrift Savings Plan, if at all.
May 07, 2020 -
In addition to upending virtually all aspects of our personal lives — health, safety, socialization — the coronavirus and reaction to it have forced millions of people to rethink plans for the future.
May 06, 2020 -
The Conservative Framework for Recovery, Accountability and Prosperity includes a section on how to improve efficiency and accountability of the government itself, and its response to the coronavirus.
May 04, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a bipartisan coalition in the House sees public support for the Postal Service as leverage to give the agency emergency funding.
May 01, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the world's favorite web site right now is about to get a fresh chunk of federal grant money.
April 30, 2020 -
Each year, tax professionals urge people who are due refunds to file early and electronically. Now there's a new reason to do just that.
April 30, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Senators say the Office of Personnel Management has refused briefings on the topic of guiding the government through the pandemic.
April 29, 2020 -
The government needs scalable, secure and powerful analytics technology to make sure resources aren’t lost to fraud, waste or abuse.
April 28, 2020 -
While a governmentwide IG council promises regular updates to the website, government transparency advocates say the platform, in its current state, gives them few options to parse the data for greater accountability.
April 28, 2020 -
If you live, work, eat, buy groceries and have monthly rent or mortgage payments to make in central Florida here’s hoping you are with a federal agency.
April 28, 2020 -
Congress has finished making April showers — showers of money to the tune of trillions. Now they're on recess for a week.
April 27, 2020