Interior Department

The Interior Department hasn’t had a permanent inspector general at the helm for more than a decade.

PEER senior counsel Peter Jenkins told Federal Drive with Tom Temin why the group is challenging the appointment of the NPS’s acting deputy director for operations.

In today’s Federal Newscast, another former member of the intelligence community was found to have conspired with Chinese intelligence services.

In today’s Federal Newscast, all signs point to federal employees’ paychecks looking a little larger by early next week.

Try and look up all of the political appointees now working in the federal government. You can’t, at least not without considerable effort. GAO’s Kris Nguyen joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to dive deeper.

In today’s Federal Newscast, an IG report said the FBI’s current notification system lacks complete and reliable data, making it harder for the agency to determine whether all cyber-crime victims had been informed.

Bipartisan support is growing for a proposed bill to remove barriers to federal employment for people with a criminal record.

On a the heels of Sunshine Week, a new study from the Government Accountability Office points to a variety of examples where agencies could improve compliance with their own ethics programs and shed light on basic information about executive branch political appointees.

President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget request would give the Justice Department $72 million to fund stronger enforcement of immigration laws and reduce the nation’s backlog of asylum cases.

In today’s Federal Newscast, a group of nearly 40 senators are urging the appropriations committee to include back pay for federal contractors impacted by the last government shutdown, in an upcoming disaster relief package.