Jim Cooper

President Donald Trump has called for the creation of a space force as a separate military service, but there hasn’t been a new military service since 1947.

As space becomes more of a contested domain, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says the Air Force needs to step up its game.

Issues related to federal employees and their pay and benefits have played a starring role in the competing budget proposals introduced by the White House and lawmakers alike. Find highlights from how the proposed budgets would affect federal employees as well as how they’ve fared so far in Congress

Some call the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s approval of a 10 percent cut in the federal workforce is a political statement. Others worry it portends cuts in federal pay, benefits or jobs. Federal employees’ groups have stepped up lobbying efforts.

A financial accounting task force said the government’s accounts are too hard to understand and are misleading. A House Oversight subcommittee held the first of a series of hearings on making agency spending data more transparent and more user-friendly.