stimulus

FILE - This May 4, 2021, photo shows the Treasury Building in Washington. The U.S. budget deficit hit a record $2.06 trillion through the first eight months of this budget year as coronavirus relief programs drove spending to all-time highs. The shortfall this year is 9.7% higher than the $1.88 trillion deficit run up over the same period a year ago, the Treasury Department said Wednesday, June 9, 2021 in its monthly budget report. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)

Bureau of the Fiscal Service seeks to issue nearly all payments electronically by 2030

The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service sees an opportunity to modernize the way it does business, after spending much of the COVID-19…

Big Data

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FILE - This May 8, 2008, file photo shows blank checks on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies in Philadelphia. Officials at the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service said Friday, March 12, 2021 that processing the new round of stimulus payments has already begun, with the aim of having the first payments start showing up in bank accounts this weekend. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

SSA ‘aggressively worked’ to give IRS data to process 30M stimulus payments

Management

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Even federal contractors have something to like in the latest big spending bill

Contracting

COVID relief bill includes provisions to help federal employees

Federal Newscast

Fencing and razor wire surrounds the perimeter of the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress feels threatened but it doesn’t like the security measures it and its staff are enduring

Congress

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Congress is delving deep into some nitty-gritty governmental issues

Congress

Pandemic stimulus underscores agency challenges with identity management

IT Modernization

With impeachment trial over, can Congress get back to normal?

Congress

Watchdog group says COVID spending waste worse than previously thought

Agency Oversight

Top challenges for IGs with the new administration

Agency Oversight

The key procurement issues in 2021

Off the Shelf

CFOs dropped ‘business as usual’ in overseeing COVID-19 spending

Of the $2.6 trillion in emergency pandemic spending Congress authorized last spring, federal agencies received over $82 billion for program administration…

Agency Oversight

Congress is busy, but not with bills necessarily

The riots and the inauguration behind it, Congress has barely settled into the next session. With only a few bills actually introduced, the Senate is mainly…

Congress

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is handed the Speaker's gavel by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on the opening day of the 117th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. (Erin Scott/Pool via AP)

Out with the old Congress, in with the new

Congress

For a brief review of the outgoing Congress and what we might expect from the next, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller.

stimulus

Bureau of the Fiscal Service seeks to issue nearly all payments electronically by 2030

SSA ‘aggressively worked’ to give IRS data to process 30M stimulus payments

Even federal contractors have something to like in the latest big spending bill

COVID relief bill includes provisions to help federal employees

Congress feels threatened but it doesn’t like the security measures it and its staff are enduring

Congress is delving deep into some nitty-gritty governmental issues

Pandemic stimulus underscores agency challenges with identity management

With impeachment trial over, can Congress get back to normal?

Watchdog group says COVID spending waste worse than previously thought

Top challenges for IGs with the new administration

The key procurement issues in 2021

CFOs dropped ‘business as usual’ in overseeing COVID-19 spending

Congress is busy, but not with bills necessarily

Out with the old Congress, in with the new

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