Bisignano stated that the SSA has cut phone wait times by 75% under his leadership, fixed frustrating website issues and served 50% more people.

"FEMA spent almost $400 billion over the last eight to nine years on disaster assistance. State and local governments cannot fund that," said Chris Currie.

The Office of Management and Budget is updating 2 CFR 200 for a second time in two years and changes would give political appointees direct approval authority.

"FEMA's annual budget is about $30 billion. It's in excess of $30 billion, and about $1.5 billion of that is spent on contracts," said Stephanie Kostro.

OMB told agencies to report federal spending going toward 49 nonprofit organizations, many of which focus on DEI, immigration support and humanitarian aid.

Three agencies are turning OMB’s acquisition and consolidation policies into action by implementing these new approaches into solicitations

The Grants Quality Service Management Office is moving away from its traditional RFI approach of bringing on new vendors and instead will rely on GSA schedules.

"It's taking what is historically a pay-and-chase system and making it more of a threshold review," said Michael Anderson.

"The CFPB was obviously supposed to pull a lot that together, but its current uncertain state obviously leaves a lot in flux," said Todd Zywicki.

Before Congress gives the Pentagon one more dollar, it must demand that Secretary Hegseth and the department look inward and answer some basic questions.

The Labor Department’s inspector general is looking at $204 million spent to modernize the underlying technology for state unemployment insurance systems.

"This is a unique situation and I don't think it has any real importance in terms of how other agencies get funded," said Alan Kaplinsky.

Tuesday's announcement is part of a federal campaign to tackle waste, fraud and abuse in federal Medicaid and Medicare programs.

Linda Miller, a former deputy executive director of the PRAC, explains why the government needs to fight fraud at algorithmic speed.

"Our reorganization will be critical in building...one of the most effective inspector general offices in the federal government," Anthony D'Esposito said.

"We hear a lot of talk about DoD willing to accept risk. But really understanding what those risks are and doing that analysis is important," said Alissa Czyz.

Postmaster General David Steiner warned lawmakers that USPS will run on of cash in less than 12 months, if it continued to pay its bills on time.

"The federal government is the American people's government. It's their tax dollars being spent, and they should know where it's going," Jeff Arkin said.

"This is not the first time that this type of crowdsourcing has ultimately come about through release of federal data sets," John Barry said.

Structural design decisions determine whether architecture remains auditable and administratively sustainable years after the post-surge period.

It's "reducing the burden without really narrowing government insights into the contracts and having the assuredness of these requirements," Dan Ramish said.

"There's still a lot of challenges to get to that point of having the reliable data at any point in time," Dawn Simpson said.

"In the private sector, if you don't have a clean audit opinion, somebody's getting fired," Rich Brady said.

"In a lot of cases, these systems that states use to manage their Medicaid are decades old," David Lieb said.

A year after federal employees were hit by the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts through DOGE, it remains unclear what the agency saved.

Colin McDonald, a top aide to the Justice Department's second-in-command, was confirmed in a vote of 52 to 47.

The Bureau’s challenges are structural and long-standing, and they demand sustained attention from leadership, DOJ, OMB and Congress.

The Treasury Department will take over the collection of defaulted federal student loan debt, and will support efforts to bring borrowers back into repayment.

"The overall decline in market participants over time will have a deleterious effect on competition and pricing," and on the supply chain too, Paul Murphy said.

"If all programs were included, decision-makers would have transparency and could better identify potential wasteful or duplicative spending," Dawn Locke said.