Government Operations
Verification Questions Remain on Intergovernmental Support
Intergovernmental support agreements, or IGSAs, expanded across Defense Department installations from 45 in 2018 to 316 in 2025, while questions remain...
House-Passed VA Funding Is $7.48B Below FY2027 Request
A new Congressional Research Service report examines Veteran's Affairs fiscal year 2027 appropriations, putting the presidential request, the House-passed...
Medicare and Medicaid Remain Central to U.S. Nursing Home Care
Medicaid and Medicare play outsized roles in funding and access to nursing home care in the United States. As of July, 14,693 long-term care facilities with...
Homeland Security Cuts Fall Short of $10.5B Savings Claims
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed that terminating contracts would save over $10.5 billion in costs, but a U.S. Government Accountability...
Gov't Management and Budget Proposes Automatic Grant Rule Changes
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and 41 federal grantmaking agencies have proposed a sweeping overhaul to how roughly $1 trillion in federal...
Hundreds of Billions in Savings If Agencies Act On Recommendations
Federal agencies are sitting on opportunities to save between $132 billion and $251 billion in measurable future financial benefits, according to a recent...
GAO's NASA Recommendations Could Save Millions and Boost Security
NASA is sitting on a growing pile of unfixed problems that could cost the agency millions of dollars and expose it to serious cybersecurity breaches. A...
Federal Tax Code Leave 37% of Married Couples Paying More in Taxes
A recent CRS report on marriage penalties and bonuses in the federal tax code reveals a fundamental tension: the income tax system cannot simultaneously...
Athletic Programs Spent More Than They Generated in 2023-2024
A GAO report publicly released August 5, 2026 (GAO-26-108640) documents the scale of financial dysfunction in college athletics: Division I colleges...
Senate Committee Considers OMB Nominee Amid Impoundment Concerns
The Senate Budget Committee's rescheduled business meeting on federal spending authority reflects ongoing tensions over executive power and the proper use...
Federal Agencies Trapped by Outdated Rules as Cloud Costs Spiral
Federal agencies are struggling to procure and manage cloud services due to a tangle of outdated regulations, conflicting government guidance, and...
GAO Updates Federal IT Audit Standards Manual
The federal government audits itself constantly. Inspectors General at dozens of agencies, along with the Government Accountability Office, scrutinize...
Senate Hears U.S. Postal Service Restructuring Plan
The Postal Service faces an existential cash crisis. At a Senate hearing on June 24, 2026, Postmaster General David Steiner warned the agency could run out...
Healthcare Fraud: Billions Lost, Lives at Stake
Medicare and Medicaid lose tens of billions of dollars each year to fraud, waste, and abuse — and the political pressure to address that drain is...
Vulnerabilities Surface in Government System Managing Trillions
Every year, the federal government produces a consolidated financial report covering trillions of dollars in revenue, spending, and debt. That report, along...
U.S. Debt Hits WWII-Era Milestone
The United States is staring down a federal debt crisis that has been decades in the making, and the government's own nonpartisan watchdog is now saying, in...
Commissioners Reject Postmaster's Borrowing Plan
Why it matters: The House Subcommittee on Government Operations convened a Postal Regulatory Commission hearing on June 4 that put the agency's four...
American Fintech Council Hires Akin Gump for Financial Services
The American Fintech Council has retained Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP to lobby on its behalf, according to a new lobbying registration disclosure...