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Musk, Ramaswamy should aim at fraud to improve government efficiency

Linda Miller, the founder and chairwoman of the Program Integrity Alliance, outlines six areas for the new Department of Government Efficiency to focus on.

Agency Oversight

Lawmakers tee up federal fraud scorecard to measure agency programs

Federal Report

Eternal question: What to keep, what to toss out

Congress

First Look White House-backed bill to preserve pandemic fraud analytics tools introduced in House

Agency Oversight

Lead pandemic watchdog urges lawmakers to extend COVID anti-fraud tool to all federal spending

All About Data

Pandemic watchdog sees ‘target-rich environment’ for AI to track down fraudsters

Big Data

'Eye-watering kind of fraud': Improper payments total third of a pandemic unemployment program’s funds

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Search for Accountability

Bob Westbrooks, former inspector general and executive director of Pandemic Response Accountability Team

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Management

SSA electronic verification service ‘at risk of collapse,’ key backer says

Biden Budget

Agency Oversight

White House $1.6B COVID fraud plan gives federal watchdogs increased staffing

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Agency Oversight

Federal watchdogs still uncovering full scope of fraud in $5T COVID spending

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Federal Newscast

PRAC: Potentially over $5 billion in fraudulent pandemic loans from SBA

Biden Justice Nominations

Agency Oversight

How to find data on millions and millions of pandemic federal funding awards

Agency Oversight

Pandemic broke down some, but not all barriers for IGs

Rae Oliver Davis, inspector general at the Department of Housing and Urban Development

Agency Oversight

Housing and Urban Development IG lays out its new 4-year strategy

Government Accountability Office Acting Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on "Tracking the Money: Preventing Waste, Fraud and Abuse of Recovery Act Funding" on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Agency Oversight

Pandemic relief oversight sheds new light on persistent gaps in federal spending data

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Agency Oversight

With an increase in federal payouts comes an increase in improper payments

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Agency Oversight

Hazards of self-certification and other lessons learned from federal government's pandemic response

Border Patrol agent E. Flores shows the shower section during a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge, Thursday, May 2, 2019, in Donna, Texas. Officials say the site will primarily be used as a temporary site for processing and care of unaccompanied migrant children and families and will increase the Border Patrol's capacity to process migrant families. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Federal Newscast

Justice Department setting up task force to go after Covid relief fraud

FILE - This April 19, 2019 file photo shows a sign for the Department of Defense at the Pentagon in Washington. The Biden administration’s nominee for top Pentagon policy adviser was met with sharp criticism from Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday, including accusations that he has been too partisan to be confirmed for the job. Colin Kahl, who served as national security adviser to then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama administration, faced repeated questions on his previous support for the Iran nuclear deal and how he would approach that issue now. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Federal Newscast

Report: DoD's lack of movement on modernization efforts could come back to haunt it

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Budget

Federal accounting can be a more dynamic career than it sounds, industry group says

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Congress

More paid leave for feds, and other reasons to watch budget reconciliation this time

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Agency Oversight

Top challenges for IGs with the new administration