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FILE - This March 22, 2013 file photo, shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown, nearly 60 percent of its workforce, to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won't be paid. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) — Government_Shutdown-IRS-Tax_Refunds_04822

Agency Oversight

IRS recovers $1B in crackdown on taxes owed by millionaires

IRS is tapping into tens of billions of multi-year modernization funds in the Inflation Reduction Act to rebuild its workforce and beef up enforcement.

IT Modernization

IRS adds another state to Direct File, as House Republicans seek to defund it

IT Modernization

IRS makes Direct File permanent option to file taxes online, invites all states to opt in

Agency Oversight

IRS to launch callback option for most taxpayers next filing season

IT Modernization

IRS to eliminate ‘oceans’ of paper by digitizing all new tax returns by 2025

Reorganization

IRS commissioner Werfel sworn in to transform agency with 'historic' investment

Budget

Congress takes up more of the budget this week...and a few repeals

Biden Budget

Congress

What's next for the Biden administration's up, up, up budget proposal

US Debt Limit

TSP

Yellen tells Congress US expected to hit debt limit Thursday

FILE - In this photo March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. Lawmakers are increasingly looking at boosting the IRS to help pay for infrastructure improvements. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Budget

House GOP leaders vow to undo $80B to rebuild IRS if party regains majority

Janet Yellen

Hiring/Retention

IRS hiring, IT upgrades set high bar for taxpayer assistance next filing season

FILE - A sign is displayed outside the Internal Revenue Service building on May 4, 2021, in Washington. Conservative politicians and candidates are distorting how a major economic bill passed over the weekend by the Senate would reform the IRS and affect taxes for the middle class. The Inflation Reduction Act, which awaits a House vote after passing in the Senate on Sunday, would increase the ranks of the IRS — but it wouldn’t create a mob of armed auditors looking to harass middle class taxpayers, as some Republicans are claiming. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Workforce

How its managers say the IRS will deal with the latest spending bill

File - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The U.S. will close the last avenue for Russia to pay back its billions in debt to international investors on Wednesday, making a Russian default on its debts for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution all but inevitable. The Treasury Department said in a notification Tuesday that it does not plan to renew the license to allow Russia to keep paying its debtholders through American banks. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP, File)

Federal Newscast

Yellen memo calls for IRS modernization to help ID tax evasion schemes perpetrated by top earners

Janet Yellen

IT Modernization

Yellen tells IRS to develop modernization plan in 6 months

The U.S. Capitol building is seen before sunrise on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March. 21, 2022. The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin its historic confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. The 51-year-old federal judge would be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Congress

Congressional update from WTOP's Mitchell Miller

A woman receives a booster jab of COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine during a vaccination campaign in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez)

Federal Newscast

With mandates in limbo, White House has new vaccine guidance for agencies

FILE - In this July 12, 2021 file photo, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen prepares to speak during a meeting of eurogroup finance ministers at the European Council building in Brussels. Yellen is telling Congress, Wednesday, Sept. 8, that she will run out of maneuvering room to keep from broaching the government’s borrowing limit during the month of October. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Budget

Yellen warns US may hit debt limit in October

FILE - In this June 3, 2011, file photo, the Pentagon is seen from air from Air Force One. It’s the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion. That’s far more in defense spending than America’s two nearest competitors, China and Russia, and will mean the military can for the bill for thousands more troops, more training, more ships and a lot else. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Defense

DoD budget largely flat, cuts legacy systems for modernization

President-elect Joe Biden, right, listens as Janet Yellen, who Biden nominated to serve as Secretary of the Treasury, speaks at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

People

Janet Yellen wins Senate approval as treasury secretary

Janet Yellen, Jon Hilsenrath

People

Biden names liberal econ team as pandemic threatens workers

Cybersecurity

'Serious concerns' raised by recent cyber attacks at Federal Reserve

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Budget

Free drugs and the Economy