Financial Management

Report Shows Wide Variation in Financial Management Across Defense Agencies

Military branches were among the worst-performing entities on the department’s first comprehensive audit, analysis finds. 

  • Courtney Bublé

Senate Chairman Presses HHS to Do a Better Job of Curbing Medicaid Fraud

Seema Verma highlights CMS’s two-year-old focus on preventing improper payments.

  • Charles S. Clark

State Dept. Employees Could Award Themselves Promotions, Watchdog Warns

Auditor notes need to enforce multiple approvals of personnel moves.

  • Charles S. Clark

Emails Show Current FAA Chief Coordinated With Ex-Lobbyist Colleagues on Policy

As he moved through the agency’s ranks, the now-acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell exchanged dozens of emails with lobbyists and other industry players discussing everything from rolling backing back consumer protections to airport privatization.

  • Derek Kravitz and Jack Gillum, ProPublica

HUD’s System for Processing Public Records Requests Died During the Shutdown

The contract for the agency’s electronic system for managing FOIA requests lapsed in early January and hasn’t been renewed. Delays are mounting.

  • Molly Parker, ProPublica

Three Agencies Failed to Notify Congress of Lapses in Curbing Improper Payments

Treasury, Labor and Agriculture singled out as GAO proposed clearer White House guidance.

  • Charles S. Clark