Secret Service

Secret Service director steps down after assassination attempt against ex-President Trump at rally

Kimberly Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, faced growing calls to resign.

Management

Secret Service director, grilled by lawmakers on the Trump assassination attempt, says ‘we failed’

Management

Congress tackles spending, policy and candidate protections on the road to the August recess

Congress

Secret Service, Republican National Convention Security

Secret Service Director Cheatle likely can’t hang on

Tom Temin Commentary

Secret Service beginning prep to welcome soccer fans from all over the world

Federal Newscast

(Graphic courtesy U.S. Army)

Tools and training: How Secret Service’s SOC answers its data challenges

Cybersecurity

DHS inspector general’s lawsuit takes aim at oversight of the IGs

Agency Oversight

An accomplished federal CFO has a forum to share lessons learned

Management

The State Department seeks fresh talent for its diplomatic security operation

Hiring/Retention

Meet the guy who oversaw the recovery of more than a billion dollars of stolen pandemic relief

Congress

FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland, looks at federal prosecutor Kevin Chambers, right, after appointing him to be the Justice Department's chief pandemic fraud prosecutor, during a meeting of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Fraud Enforcement Task Force at the Justice Department, March 10, 2022 in Washington. The U.S. Secret Service recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic funds to the Small Business Administration, Friday, Aug. 26. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Secret Service recovers $286M in stolen pandemic loans

Workforce

The American flag flies at half-staff in honor of President George H. W. Bush at Walker's Point, the Bush's summer home, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush died at the age of 94 on Friday, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

The federal workforce: Two million, or just you?

Sometimes working along can be downright pleasant. Sometimes you’re all by yourself pursuing injustice.

Federal Report

Chris Stirewalt, former Fox News political editor, bottom right, speaks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol meets to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2022. House investigators are trying to make a methodical case that President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election led directly to the insurrection by his supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A look into the ramifications of those lost Secret Service messages

Text messages you send for official business on a government-issued phone are official records. Attorney John Mahoney joined Tom Temin to discuss what…

Congress

Social Security plans to expand workforce diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility

Federal Newscast

Also in today’s Federal Newscast, a commission to help agencies prevent and manage wildfires has its official members. And the Army kicked off a huge recompete of its Common Hardware Systems 6th Generation (CHS-6) contract.