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The Biggest Agency and Program Winners in Biden’s FY 2022 Budget

The president's first budget provides significant funding boosts at nearly every agency across government.

  • Eric Katz

Biden Proposes Major Spending Boost for Civilian Agencies in Fiscal 2022

The administration is requesting a 16% increase in non-defense discretionary funding to harness the government's power to solve multiple crises.

  • Courtney Bublé

White House Blames Transition in Part for Delay in Releasing Budget Preview

Not having a confirmed budget office leader was another factor, said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.

  • Courtney Bublé

Biden Taps Current, Former Defense Officials to Oversee Acquisition, Budget, Intel at Pentagon

A former comptroller would return to the job if the Senate approves.

  • Marcus Weisgerber

Former Top Trump Official Recounts Early Days of the Pandemic

Joe Grogan was Domestic Policy Council director and a White House COVID task force member.

  • Courtney Bublé

New Task Force Will Conduct Sweeping Review of Scientific Integrity Policies

The governmentwide review will look at policies and political interference in science over the last two administrations.

  • Courtney Bublé

Biden Administration is Still Working on Plan for Border Wall Contracts

A government watchdog is reviewing if the pause in construction violated a budget law.

  • Courtney Bublé

Migrants, Including Children, Face Cramped Conditions at South Texas Border Patrol Facility

Images released by a Democratic U.S. representative show settings similar to those that Democrats hammered former President Donald Trump over two years ago, when that administration encountered an increase of migrant apprehensions

  • Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune

4 Reasons No President Should Want to Give a Press Conference

While democracy requires accountability from presidents, presidents may lose stature, not gain it, by holding a press conference.

  • David E. Clementson, The Conversation

White House Reminds Agencies to Get Its Approval on Policy Proposals and Certain Communications

Goal is to ensure the administration "speaks with one voice."

  • Eric Katz

Biden Nominates Kiran Ahuja for OPM Director

Ahuja, who previously served as the agency’s chief of staff during the Obama administration, would be the first South Asian and the first Asian American woman to lead the federal government’s HR department.

  • Erich Wagner

House Republicans Call for Accounting of Unused COVID Relief Funds 

Effort seeks to bolster transparency and accountability as Congress and the president are working to pass the next aid package. 

  • Courtney Bublé

Biden: ‘I Will Never Politicize’ US Troops

Biden also announced a new Pentagon-led review of military strategy towards China.

  • Katie Bo Williams
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Trump Wasn't the First President to Try to Politicize the Civil Service – Which Remains at Risk of Returning to Jackson’s ‘Spoils System’

For decades, presidents beginning with Andrew Jackson routinely replaced large swaths of the government workforce, often requiring them to pay fees to political parties in exchange for their jobs.

  • Barry M. Mitnick, The Conversation

How Anthony Fauci Survived Donald Trump

The new White House chief medical adviser explains what it was really like to work for an administration that tried constantly to undermine him.

  • Peter Nicholas, The Atlantic

US Flies B-52 Bomber To Gulf In Show of Force Against Iran

“We were also thinking…'Would they try to test the U.S. military in the early days of the new administration?'”

  • Katie Bo Williams

Biden Aims for Federal Contractors to Pay a $15 Minimum Wage

He directed his administration to work on an executive order within his first 100 days. 

  • Courtney Bublé

Biden Pauses Construction on the Border Wall

The president also ordered a review of all funding and contracts. 

  • Courtney Bublé

Biden Seeks to Halt or Delay Trump’s ‘Midnight Regulations’

The new president took several immediate actions to start undoing Trump’s deregulatory agenda. 

  • Courtney Bublé

The Secret Service Is Bracing for Dangerous Times

Any chance of a normal security environment for the president-elect evaporated during the Capitol siege.

  • Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic

Don’t Expect Trump’s Workforce Policies to Be Reversed Overnight

With the Biden team focused on issues like COVID response and immigration reform, significant action to rescind the Trump administration’s harmful federal workforce policies could take a back seat.

  • Erich Wagner