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FILE - This Feb. 5, 2018, file photo shows the seal of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System in the ground at the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington. The Senate on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, narrowly confirmed the nomination of Christopher Waller for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, placing another of President Donald Trump’s picks on the Fed’s influential board after a string of high-profile rejections. The vote in favor of Waller’s appointment was 48-47. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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Congress still working on possible stimulus bill

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Informal deal reached to avert government shutdown

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Sen. Gary Peters asks White House to launch a coronavirus website

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People

Trump to nominate US Treasurer to replace McMahon as SBA head

ILE - In this July 22, 2018 file photo, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during a news conference at the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Treasury Department has issued new rules on foreign investments into American companies that will give the government more power to block foreign transactions on national security grounds. The rules represent the latest escalation in an intensifying economic conflict between the United States and China. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
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New bill asks Treasury Dept. to offer furloughed feds interest free loans

President Donald Trump walks to speak to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, for the short trip to Andrews Air Force Base en route to Philadelphia to attend the Army-Navy Football Game. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Trump scrambling to find new White House chief of staff

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Workforce

Postal task force seeks to remove USPS compensation from collective bargaining

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All News

2 senators urge GSA to act quickly on tax act's harmful provisions for feds

Susan Prendergast, reference supervisor at the Eudora Welty Library, in Jackson, Miss., adds additional federal tax filing information booklets on a shelf. The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, issued an online calculator for figuring whether money is being set aside, to avoid facing a huge tax bill for 2018.
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Agency Oversight

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Congress

Good gov't groups ask House committee to rescind recent FOIA guidance to Treasury

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, left, speaks with Michelle Heritage, director of a shelter program, inside a shelter in Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday, April 26, 2017. Carson said Wednesday he expects to release a policy agenda within the next few months that delivers “bang for the buck,” partly by encouraging more private-sector collaboration. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
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