Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Congress expands oversight for privatized military housing

Congress looks to DoD for more improvements to privatized military housing, and asks for more reports and oversight.

Defense

True costs of troubled VA EHR project are ‘no longer clear,’ appropriators concede

Veterans Affairs

A soldier reunites with his daughter at Fort Bragg, N.C. after returning from the Middle East. The 82nd Airborne Division's Immediate Response Force had been deployed since New Years Eve. Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. Nearly two months after a U.S. Army rapid-response force was activated amid tensions with Iran, deploying 3,000 soldiers to the Middle East, some are returning home. By the end of the weekend, nearly 800 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division’s Immediate Response Force are slated to have returned to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. On Thursday morning, eager family members waited in the base’s iconic Green Ramp to greet their loved ones. (U.S. Army via AP)

First Look

Thousands of Air Force families are waiting months for child care, according to report

Air Force

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Another year, another record-high budget request for VA

Veterans Affairs

As VA plans to modernize aging facilities, it faces a daunting maintenance backlog

Veterans Affairs

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Supply remains VA’s biggest hurdle in vaccinating broader veteran population

Veterans Affairs

VA says employees have masks and coronavirus tests, but Congress sees inconsistencies

Veterans Affairs

In this April 16, 2020, photo Sonia Munoz, left, custody assistant, gets her temperature taken at the hospital ward of the Twin Towers jail in Los Angeles. Across the country first responders who've fallen ill from COVID-19, recovered have begun the harrowing experience of returning to jobs that put them back on the front lines of America's fight against the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

NTEU lays out standards for calling federal employees back to offices

Federal Newscast

DoD promises more housing rights for military tenants, questions on BAH arise

Defense

VA sets new July goal for initial electronic health record rollout

Veterans Affairs

Appropriators push back against plan to reallocate MILCON funds to border

Congress

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie (Dec. 19. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

VA MISSION Act funding to take center stage in upcoming 2020 budget battles

Congressional appropriators are concerned about the Department of Veterans Affairs’ plans to implement and pay for the VA MISSION Act, which may likely…

Veterans Affairs

Pruitt putting ‘a drag’ on EPA, House Democrats tell agency employees

Democratic House lawmakers, together with the largest federal employee union, have called on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to step down amid a growing…

Management

With his job in jeopardy, Shulkin insists there’s no White House pressure to privatize VA

Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin said he regretted the distractions that recent reports have created.