Oversight

Trump Selects Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as Attorney General

Sessions serves on the Judiciary Committee and has opposed immigration reform.

Oversight

How Far Behind is Donald Trump's Presidential Transition Compared to Obama's?

Trump's team is several days behind the Obama effort in terms of getting staffers in position to assess how they will make policy and who they will need to do it.

Oversight

Play of the Day: Donald Trump Should Probably Contact the Pentagon

As the transition continues, the Defense Department has not heard from the president-elect.

Oversight

Play of the Day: Trump's Cabinet Search May Be a Game Show

The president-elect said on Twitter that only he knows who the "finalists" are.

Oversight

Senate Democrats Plan to Pick Their Battles With Trump

A caucus dismayed by his victory sees a few areas for collaboration too.

Tech

A Visit to Treasury’s DATA Act Nerve Center

Spending transparency is just the first step—the real reward is in measuring program outcomes.

Management

Why Donald Trump (and His Family) Won’t Be Subject to Security Clearance Background Checks

A CIA chef undergoes more scrutiny for his job than does the president to receive the nation’s most closely-held secrets.

Oversight

Play of the Day: The Commuter-In-Chief?

Would Donald Trump still live in New York after inauguration?

Management

TRICARE Bid Protests Denied

The government’s watchdog found no reason to sustain challenges to a pair of lucrative Defense contracts to deliver military health care.

Oversight

Trump Tries to Bend Republicans on Infrastructure

Whether the president-elect gets his way on money for roads and bridges will say a lot about who runs Washington in 2017.

Oversight

Play of the Day: Donald Trump Takes on Hate Crimes

The president-elect tells those committing violent acts to "stop it."

Oversight

Hillary Clinton Directly Blames FBI Director James Comey For Her Loss

His letters to Congress "stopped our momentum," according to the candidate.

Oversight

Play of the Day: It's Awfully Hard to 'Drain the Swamp'

Donald Trump's administration may have more longtime government types than he promised.

Defense

White House: $11.6B More Needed for ISIS Fight, Afghanistan

The request brings the expected 2017 price tag for both wars to $85.3 billion.