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Bill to Limit IRS’ Ability to Offer Free Tax Filing Service Is Getting New Scrutiny

The attention comes after ProPublica reported on the provision.

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Play of the Day: Trump's Visit To Mount Vernon

The current president had some suggetsions for the first president.

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VA Predicts Bumpy Rollout of New Program to Give Vets Access to Private Care

"I’m not going to sit before you and say we are going to get everything right," top official tells lawmakers.

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Analysis: Trump’s Border Obsession Is Courting Disaster

The president’s single-minded focus on immigration is shortchanging Homeland Security’s other crucial functions, from election security to emergency response.

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Solving for Unproductive Workplace Conversations

These are the conversations where everyone talks and no one listens.

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What Will Climate Change Mean for Security in Africa?

The Pentagon faces different challenges in a continent where it has only one permanent base — but lots of troops.

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What Trump's Move to End Central American Aid Will Look Like

Future for existing programs and staff on the ground is in jeopardy.

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TSA Air Marshal Whistleblower Fired for Second Time

Robert MacLean continues to claim retaliation for his disclosures of safety risks.

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One Chart Shows the Unprecedented Turmoil at Homeland Security

Nearly a dozen top-level vacancies have left the Homeland Security Department in flux.

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IRS and Private Partners Tout Success in Combating Identity Theft

Numbers of reported taxpayer victims fell 71 percent from 2015 to 2018.

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Watchdog Questions NSA’s $636 Million in Award Fee Incentive Contracts

Justifications of costs and benefits may not have served government’s interests.

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Trump Upends Homeland Security Department in Mass Removal of Top Staff

Experts and former officials call the bulk turnover unhealthy, unprecedented and "enormously disruptive."

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Analysis: Kirstjen Nielsen Shows Why It’s Impossible to Restrain Trump

If anyone was going to moderate the president’s worst impulses, it was an expert and a bureaucrat like the former DHS secretary. Instead, all she did was sacrifice her own reputation.

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Trump's New DHS Pick Faces Legal Uncertainty

2016 law appears to block the president from naming current Customs and Border commissioner to replace Kirstjen Nielsen.

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Alabama Senator to the IRS: Stop Picking on the South

Why are the rural poor audited more frequently than other groups, he asks, citing ProPublica. Another Democratic senator adds, “There are two tax codes in America, and there are also two enforcement regimes.”

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Play of the Day: Joe Biden's Vertical Video

The former vice president shot a vertical non-apology.

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Shake Up at Homeland Security as Border Crisis Mounts

President Trump pledged to go in a "tougher" direction after withdrawing his nomination to lead ICE on Friday and accepting Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's resignation on Sunday.

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Labor-Management Impasse Panel Guts Telework, Holiday Leave for Some Feds

The decision in a contract dispute at the Health and Human Services Department is a setback for a federal union.

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Nixon And Reagan Tried Closing The Border To Pressure Mexico – Here's What Happened

Both presidents brought border traffic and trade to a standstill in hopes of changing Mexican policy in the drug war. And both failed to achieve their goals.

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How to Deal With a Confrontational Naysayer During a Presentation

A workplace communication fable with three great lessons.