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The Technology Modernization Fund was created in 2017 to lend agencies money to replace old IT systems, with the loans repaid from savings. GAO reported in July that the fund had invested about $1.03 billion in 68 projects by June 2025. The projects expected …
At a House Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing on 2 September, VA Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence put the cost of the department’s new …
In June 2026 New York broke ground on the main construction stage of Second Avenue Subway Phase 2. It’s 1.8 miles of tunnel from 96th Street …
Every two years the Government Accountability Office publishes a short list of the parts of the US government most likely to waste money or …
In June 2026, US immigration judges granted asylum in 5.5% of the cases they decided, 771 people. They denied 94.1%. At the end of the Biden …
The Ankara Summit Declaration, adopted on 8 July 2026, runs to six numbered paragraphs. A year earlier at The Hague, allies had agreed the …
GAO’s latest review of federal legacy IT looked at 11 critical systems across ten agencies. Together they cost about $754 million a year to …
In January 2026 the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security changed its rules to allow exports of Nvidia’s H200 chip, and …
The 2027 filing season, for tax year 2026, will be the first in which employers report qualified overtime pay on W-2 forms, under a new box …