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The Government Accountability Office says the Treasury Department has made good progress on some deficiencies on financial statements, but new ones have popped up.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, GAO recommends the military services clear up their tattoo policies.
A Treasury Department watchdog report finds a software flaw led to the agency failing to collect $472 million in debts owed to over 28 agencies.
Today marked the second time the United States took a federal holiday to commemorate Juneteenth. Federal agencies commemorated the day on social media.
Jeff Schramek, the deputy commissioner for fiscal accounting and shared services at the Bureau of Fiscal Service in the Treasury Department, said taking a human centered design approach to improving its shared services offerings.
Federal leave and time off policies can get mighty complicated. At the IRS, both managers and line employees have had trouble sticking to procedures for family and medical leave act leave.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Biden administration expects climate change’s toll on the federal government will become more expensive over time.
The White House’s fiscal 2023 budget request includes $65 billion for federal civilian IT spending, including big increases for DHS, OPM and SBA.
The U.S. financial system and the way it's regulated, are fast moving to obsolescence. And the government is unwilling and unable to adopt the technologies to modernize them.
Somehow the national debt has managed to reach $28 trillion. But, where is it? It's in a set of electronic schedules maintained by the Treasury Department's Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
The budget request outlines a "strategic shift" in federal cybersecurity efforts after incidents like SolarWinds and Log4j.
In today's Federal Newscast, federal employees who were exposed to COVID-19 while working can now join a class-action lawsuit.
Financial management problems at the Defense Department show up year after year. Throw in problems at the Small Business Administration and a few other persistent issues, and it's impossible to accurately assess the state of federal finances. And that's the conclusion from the latest look at the government's consolidated statements conducted by the Government Accountability Office.
Certain potential and real casualties of the brutality occurring in Ukraine are not generally known to the public. But they matter a lot to employees of the State Department.