Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

DeJoy agrees to pause some USPS facility changes until 2025

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says USPS will pause plans to move of mail processing operations at facilities across the country until January 2025.

Agency Oversight

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Whistleblower protection legislation stalls amid congressional chaos

Congress

Labor’s Bafundo assumes new role with TMF program management office

People

DeJoy says USPS network needs ‘major’ overhaul. But union, senators wary of impact

Agency Oversight

USPS regulator raises ‘alarm bells’ as agency board reins in its budget request

Agency Oversight

Bill roundup: Committee OKs Border Patrol pay raise, CBP hiring, permanent federal firefighter raise

Pay

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Government Accountability Office, federal budget oversight

Agency efforts to cut redundant programs save $600B over 13 years, GAO says

Agency Oversight

Time to turn the government’s tech startup into a grown up

Commentary

Login.gov’s problems further break down confidence in TTS, and now GSA

Reporter's Notebook

Biden pulls OMB controller nominee tasked to oversee infrastructure, pandemic spending

Agency Oversight

40 lawmakers call for 5% increase in Defense budget

Federal Newscast

New bill would mandate legacy IT inventories, modernization plans

The Legacy IT Reduction Act of 2022 aims to bring some transparency to this problem agencies have in knowing how many legacy IT systems they have and their…

Congress

‘Long-overdue’ USPS reform bill set to save agency $50B over decade passes House

A long-awaited reform bill that would save the Postal Service about $50 billion over the next decade took a major step forward in Congress.

Agency Oversight

FILE - Border Patrol agents hold a news conference prior to a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas, May 2, 2019. A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporter, according to a federal watchdog. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Senators warn USPS, CBP fall short on legislation to stop opioids in the mail

Agency Oversight

Two senators remain concerned these agencies haven’t done more to tighten the flow of drugs, such as fentanyl, from coming into the United States, despite championing legislation that gives them the tools to do so.