Sammies

IRS announces $1.3B recovered from high-income wealthy individuals under IRA initiatives

The IRS is tapping into Inflation Reduction Act funds to support these enforcement efforts.

Federal Newscast

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2024 Sammies highlight extraordinary work of public servants at ‘vital’ time

Workforce

2023 Sammies recognize the exceptional work of federal employees

Workforce

The government’s best and most accomplished get honored this evening

Workforce

FILE - Research assistant Robert demonstrates how to prepare a sample for sequencing at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, England, Friday, on Jan. 7, 2022. After dropping most coronavirus restrictions in February 2022, Britain is now ending some COVID-19 testing and monitoring programs, a move some scientists fear will complicate efforts to track the virus and detect worrisome new variants. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

This federal team put the last few pieces into the human genome puzzle

Management

This Defense official put allied suppliers to Ukraine on speed dial

Defense News

These USDA employees modernized an old program so poor Americans could eat better

People

This federal lawyer got a settlement from a powerful industry after a 20-year dispute

People

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington. Two high-ranking Trump political appointees at the EPA engaged in fraudulent payroll activities, including payments to employees after they were fired and to one of the officials when he was absent from work, that cost the agency more than $130,000, a report by an internal watchdog says. Former chief of staff Ryan Jackson and former White House liaison Charles Munoz submitted “official timesheets and personnel forms that contained materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements

How the EPA funneled enforcement into a difficult-to-reach part of the country

People

Meet the GAO investigator who bird-dogged the federal student loan program

Agency Oversight

In our Service to America Medals series: How the Air Force went from logjam to innovation factory

Air Force

It’s time to celebrate some of the government’s best and brightest

Finalists for Service to America Medals, known as the Sammies. It’s a signature program of the Partnership for Public Service.

Workforce

Hillary Ingraham of State Department after receiving the Safety, Security and International Affairs medal, along with Holly Herrera and Kiera Berdinner.

Inspiration was on parade at the Sammies

Awardees show how a few people can affect thousands, even millions, in a positive way.

Tom Temin Commentary

Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals

A red letter day that embraces and celebrates the best and brightest of the federal workforce

Workforce

Federal Drive host Tom Temin, who interviewed 20 Sammies finalists, had one more interview in him: this one with Max Stier, the President and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service.