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The latest COVID-19 relief package drew on some of the lessons agencies and lawmakers learned in implementing the first round of loans, payments and direct aid earlier this year. The IRS, for example, will receive access to the Social Security Administration's death master file in hopes of more accurately disbursing economic stimulus payments.
In today's Federal Newscast, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) wants to make sure President Trump doesn't dispose of any vital presidential records on his way out the door.
Congress in the last few weeks may have sounded like a broken record, but the calendar will soon knock the needle somewhere.
In today's Federal Newscast, National Institute of Standards and Technology Fellow Ron Ross has advice for officials knocked off their feet by the recent governmentwide cyber attacks.
Top negotiators in Congress have sealed a deal on $900 billion COVID-19 economic relief package.
Congress has passed a two-day stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown this weekend
VA has paused its near-real-time public reporting of new COVID-19 cases, but as of Dec. 11, the department was tracking 17,757 active cases, including 1,441 VA health care workers with active COVID-19, according to VA's public data.
Businesses who took [Paycheck] Protection Plan money to tide them over through the early months of the pandemic have a reckoning. The Small Business Administration is following up with a loan necessity questionnaire.
The service dropped nearly half of the occupations from its reenlistment bonus list for 2021.
The United Service Organizations have received a $3 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to support its Combat COVID-19 initiative.
In today's Federal Newscast, a bipartisan group of six Senators want the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to submit a report to Congress about the impact of the SolarWinds cyber attack on agencies.
The State Department has prioritized vaccines for its frontline medical personnel, critical operations and maintenance staff and some diplomatic security personnel in the national capital region. The Department of Veterans Affairs detailed a risk order for its 248,000 frontline healthcare professionals and where they fall in line.
The president's recent Schedule F executive order allows agencies to reclassify career federal employees in certain policymaking positions into a new schedule of quasi political appointees.
When things go wrong and affect a lot of people, the government sometimes appoints commissions to do after-the-fact analysis and come up with recommendations for congresses and administrations to try and prevent recurrences.