Latest News
- Project 2025 Report Card: Because Democracy was Getting Boring
- Office of Special Counsel Throws a Monkey Wrench in Probationary Firing Efforts
- New EO Eliminates Presidential Management Fellows Program
- Senate Approves Different Approach to Budget Reconciliation
- House Leadership Scrambling to Save Ambitious Budget Resolution
- GovCon Sector Playing Hide and Seek with DOGE
- Fork in the Road allowed to proceed by the courts
- Trump Administration Pretends There Aren’t Three Branches of Government
- Federal Court Halts Federal Employee Resignation Program
- Grants spigot back open . . .
From OMB
- OMB Releases Round 2 of Guidance for Evidence Act
- OMB RFI: Need input on Feds collection of commercially available personal info
- White House Unveils New Guidelines for Responsible AI Use in Government Procurement
- Guidance on Presidential Transition Planning
- Administration’s FY2025 CR Anomaly Request
- OMB/OPM initiative to improve hiring experience launched
- White House Puts Federal Hiring on the Fast Track
- Feds, on average, spent 61% of regular work hours in-person
- Feds, on average, spent 61% of regular work hours in-person
- OMB’s Budget Guidance, Circular A-11, is out!
About the Budget
- Senate Approves Different Approach to Budget Reconciliation
- House Leadership Scrambling to Save Ambitious Budget Resolution
- The CR is out!
- 2024 budget deficit tops $1.8T
- FY24 Supp Request
- CBO predicts $50T (with a T) in debt by 2034!
- The President’s FY 2025 Budget
- FAQs on FY24 spending limits
- Federal debt tops $34 trillion
- CBO: Administrative Costs of Federal Programs
From GAO
- USDA needs to do a better job handling workplace discrimination, if we still care about that
- Red meat for the DOGE: how to get more from the $100B spent on IT annually
- How OMB and the IGs oversaw the loss of $2.8 trillion in improper payments since 2003
- AI’s risks and rewards
- How Login.gov could improve
- DOD has no idea what its financial management contractors do
- SSA $37M in the hole on Social Security number verification service
- DOD finding benefits of audit readiness efforts
- HHS needs to get a handle on its pandemic systems
- DOD’s poor planning caused delays of at least a year in 25% of milcon projects
From Congress
- Bipartisan Agency Preparation for Transitions Act Introduced in Senate
- Charles Cooper is Right Again! Congress Passes CR into March
- Congress continues to argue with itself over appropriations
- Sen. Tuberville’s Ridiculous, Self-Aggrandizing Blockade of Military Promotions Fails Spectacularly
- Oh, great. Now the House fired the Speaker.
- Schumer Two-Steps around Tuberville; Senate Confirms New Joint Chief
- Congress launches What Works Caucus
- Military Secretaries to Sen. Tuberville: You Want to Step Outside?
- House Conservatives Launch Petty Attempt to Cut Fed Salaries
- The Status of Appropriations
Appointments
- Follow the Partnership’s Appointee Tracker
- Looks like Werfel’s out, Long’s in at IRS
- Voldemort (Vought) back at OMB
- Wikipedia’s transition tracking page
- Looking for PLUMS in the new Administration?
- Kerry to step down as U.S. Climate Envoy
- The Plum Book Online
- Sen. Tuberville’s Ridiculous, Self-Aggrandizing Blockade of Military Promotions Fails Spectacularly
- Schumer Two-Steps around Tuberville; Senate Confirms New Joint Chief
- Jack Lew Can’t Get Enough Difficult Government Posts
Other
- GovCon Sector Playing Hide and Seek with DOGE
- 2023 Chief Data Officer Survey Results
- OMB: cross agency leadership meetings producing real results
- RIP GovExec’s Charlie Clark
- What’s next in evidence-based policymaking?
- DOD: New Cyber Strategy Addresses Realities of Modern World
- National Security Apparatus Braces for Deepfakes
- Nerd Alert! SLFRF recipients can exclude awards from indirect cost rate calculation
- Explore the June 2023 Agency Priority Goal Updates
- Schedule F architects say the plan’s critics are ‘hyperbolic’
Procurement
- GovCon Sector Playing Hide and Seek with DOGE
- State Department FFRDC Acquisition Strategy is Off the Rails!
- Contractors cry foul over OMB memo on…contracting
- OMB Memo Pushes Increased Contracts for Small Businesses
- Did DOD get coal for Christmas? Drops CMMC Proposed Rule Update day after
- Feds need better scorecard to guide acquisition
- IRS: We won’t use Login.gov because it doesn’t work
- Why the Air Force Pulled the Plug on a HUGE Acquisition
- OASIS+ Deadline Slips into October
- SBA’s 8(a) program hits another roadblock
Developments in the Business of Government
- Federal Court Halts Federal Employee Resignation Program
- And they said it couldn’t be done! Feds finally publish list of all federal programs
- Is the Postal Service Actually Making Money?
- Cracks in the Wonderwall: OASIS+ Gets Its First Bid Protest
- DOL’s Ready to Work program doesn’t work
- FNN: Hiring Reform on Congress’ Docket
- Latest PMA Updates!
- Social Security Disability Determination Delays Persist
- SBA OIG Report 23-09: Fraud Landscape Report High-Level One-Pager
- ForsMarsh: For IRS Direct File, Let the Evidence Guide the Way
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