infrastructure

What exactly did the GAO say in that report on empty federal offices?

The most talked about Government Accountability Office report in months confirmed what a lot of people suspected. Federal offices are largely unoccupied.

Leasing/Property Management

Infrastructure spending could outrun the ability to oversee it

Agency Oversight

AP/Jacquelyn Martin

Agencies get new workforce priorities to focus on for next few years

Federal Newscast

Cars wait in line to enter the United States at San Diego's San Ysidro border crossing, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Tijuana, Mexico. A Trump administration crackdown on nonessential travel coming from Mexico amid the coronavirus pandemic has created massive bottlenecks at the border, with drivers reporting waits of up to 10 hours to get into the U.S. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

GSA outlines plan to spend $3.4B on infrastructure upgrades along US borders

Facilities/Construction

No home left offline

Commentary

FILE - In this March 31, 2021 file photo, traffic moves along the Interstate 76 highway in Philadelphia. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, Oct. 19, announced his intention to nominate Steven Cliff, who has served as deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration since February, to become the agency's administrator. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Former Calif. regulator tapped to run highway safety agency

People

A deep dive into where Congress is at on the infrastructure bill

Congress

Rear Admiral Carola List, assistant commandant for engineering and logistics at the U.S. Coast Guard

Rear Admiral Carola List talks Coast Guard priorities for 2022

Defense

Senate Democrats reach $3.5T budget agreement

Budget

House committees are spending the week working on ‘the normal kind’ of budget bills

Congress

Chuck Schumer, Raphael Warnock, Amy Klobuchar

Next question: Will the Senate go along with House oversight proposals?

Congress

House Democrats working towards infrastructure package

Lawmakers in the U.S. House plan to vote this week on a more than $500 billion water and transportation package.

Congress

How did Congress move so fast on that Juneteenth law anyhow?

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.

Congress

Congress seems to get deeper and deeper into its own maze

Congress

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.