Budget

FILE - People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions leftover to pay down federal deficits. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

If you’re not surprised there’s not a shutdown, you’re prescient or a prevaricator

To the surprise of just about everybody, the Federal Government is fully functional this Monday, October 2, 2023. Some surprise last-minute votes in both…

Budget

Government shutdown or not, it’s exhausting

Federal Report

FILE - Residents have begun receiving the U.S. Census Bureau's request for information receiving letters with a census identification number to answer questions about their households online. U.S. Bureau officials said Friday, May 6, 2022, they are ready to start examining changes that would combine race and ethnic questions and add a Middle Eastern and North African category on the 2030 census questionnaire, but they're waiting on another federal office to start the conversation. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, File)

Details on how the census actually causes distribution of federal funds

Management

Graphic By Derace Lauderdale

Data Dive

Here’s how many feds would stay on the job – both with and without pay – during an upcoming shutdown

Government Shutdown

Updated 9/27: Resources to help you better understand a government shutdown

Government Shutdown

Government shutdown risk spikes as House Republicans leave town in disarray amid hard-right revolt

Government Shutdown

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

Agency Oversight

Exclusive

IRS to remain ‘fully operational’ if Congress triggers government shutdown

Government Shutdown

USPS gives its regulator a budget boost – but not enough for ‘increased capacity’

Budget

An interview with Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, Center Director, Goddard Space Flight Center

The Space Hour

A detail of some of the complexity of the AR-22 engine, being used for a developmental reusable spacecraft, is seen in Stennis, Miss., Monday, July 2, 2018. Triggering a massive cloud of vapor and a roar, officials on Monday test fired the rocket engine designed to be part of a reusable spacecraft that can launch into space repeatedly with a quick turnaround time. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

An unlikely location plays a big role in NASA operations

The Space Hour

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. To enact President Joe Biden’s expansive domestic agenda this year, Democrats have mapped out a convoluted legislative maze. The party wants to push the new president's multitrillion-dollar plans for supercharging federal infrastructure, climate change and social programs through a Congress in which they have only paper-thin majorities. GOP opposition is certain to be solid. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

How the Ukraine War could gum up federal budget negotiations

Congress has passed just one of 12 bills needed to fund the government next fiscal year. When members return early next month, the question of further…

Congress

After walking down a gravel road to do recon on a fire cresting into the trees, a wildland firefighter grimaces as he walks back to his crew on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, at the Bedrock Fire north of Lenore, Idaho. Lenore is about 30 miles east of Lewiston, Idaho. (Pete Caster/Lewiston Tribune via AP)

White House asks Congress to keep firefighters from falling off the pay cliff

The Biden administration is trying to address some more immediate spending needs through a supplemental request that will come up before Congress can pass…

Budget

Senate committee wants to know more about the ‘future of work’ at DHS

Workforce

Most DHS employees can’t telework, but Senate appropriators are evaluating the “impact” of alternative work arrangements across homeland security components.