Government Operations
How Army Force Structure Gets Built
Army unit numbers and types reflect personnel ceilings and funding choices more than direct congressional design, according to a new Congressional Research...
Maternal Mortality Reviews Drive Medicaid, Health Equity Changes
State maternal mortality review committees are driving policy changes aimed at preventing pregnancy-related deaths, including expanded postpartum Medicaid...
FEMA Faces $2B Backlog as Disaster Resilience Program Restarts
Hundreds of communities are waiting on more than $2 billion in disaster-resilience funding that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has yet to...
2030 Census Citizenship Rules Proposed for Apportionment
Federal officials have proposed narrowing the apportionment count for the next enumeration to exclude foreign citizens who are not United States citizens or...
Federal Audit Finds Gaps in Nuclear Security Contract Oversight
A recent report found that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is not consistently using a contracting tool that could improve...
Federal Audit Finds Gaps in Oversight of Medical Device Reviewers
Gaps in the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) policies for auditing outside medical device reviewers could allow organizations to continue reviewing...
GAO Says Agencies Aren't Sharing Data on Banned Chinese Tech
A recent audit found that federal agencies have sharply reduced spending with five Chinese telecommunications and surveillance companies covered by federal...
Tribal Water Crisis: Federal Rules Block Aid Despite $6B Need
Bureaucratic rules, outdated funding caps, and a lack of operations support are leaving tribal communities without reliable access to safe drinking water,...
Fed Education Oversight Halts as Student Absenteeism Hits Crisis
The U.S. Department of Education has failed in its oversight of chronic absenteeism just as the problem remains at crisis levels in American schools,...
Funding Gap Stalls Federal Property Sales Program
A temporary process established in 2016 to shed unneeded federal buildings is running out of time, and a persistent funding gap has slowed it down,...
Lack of Awareness Plagues Reporting on Federal Building Barriers
Tens of millions of Americans with disabilities who visit or work in federal office buildings may not know they have a legal right to file accessibility...
Senate Judiciary Committee Will Vote on Pending Nominees
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold a "Business Meeting To Consider Pending Calendar Business" on Thursday, October 1. These executive...
GAO Finds Judiciary Does Not Track Administrative Space Use
The federal judiciary does not systematically track how much of its 12.2 million square feet of administrative space it actually uses, leaving officials...
GAO Finds Gaps in Federal Contraceptive Coverage Compliance
A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on contraceptive coverage compliance found that federal oversight has identified noncompliance...
GAO Finds Gaps in Support at Remote Military Installations
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Department of Defense (DOD) lacks a consistent definition of remote and isolated military...
GAO Says USDA Fell Short of Providing Records on $37B Fund Review
The combined $134 billion directed to USDA and DOE under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was...
IRS Lacks Strategy as Tax Fraud Costs $116B-$304B Yearly
The federal government is losing between $116 billion and $304 billion every year due to tax fraud, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report,...
U.S. Intelligence Community Structure Outlined in New Guide
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has published a primer on how national and defense intelligence are structured, funded, and coordinated across the...