After installing anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone early last month, the Social Security Administration is considering walking back the policy after finding only two cases that had a high probability of being fraudulent. The anti-fraud tool...
Senate Finance Committee Democrats say donors to IRS commissioner pick Billy Long’s hibernating campaign fund could have been illegally influencing the former House lawmaker. “This brazen attempt to curry favor with Mr. Long is not only unethical—it may also be...
A bipartisan pair of senators is reviving a bill to break the grip that tech giants like Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have on the Pentagon’s cloud computing and artificial intelligence contracts. The Protecting AI and Cloud...
The Trump administration spent at least $21 million transporting migrants to Guantanamo Bay on military aircraft between January 20 and April 8, according to figures provided to Congress by the U.S. military. The naval base there currently holds 32 migrants,...
A bipartisan pair of senators applauded the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into major egg producers over rising prices and called on the department to look even further into the issue in a letter to Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater late...
We’ve got two sets of numbers to dig into today. The first comes from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and the Joint Committee on Taxation. Warren during a recent Senate vote-a-rama proposed amendments to let the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for President Trump’s pick for Under Secretary of the Army to sell his stock in a defense contractor that experts say would pose a clear conflict of interest. In a federal ethics agreement first reported...
Just a day after Senate Republicans confirmed U.S. President Donald Trump’s Social Security Administration commissioner, Frank Bisignano, the chamber’s Democrats on Wednesday announced a series of letters about outstanding questions and concerns regarding the federal agency—including one that demands an...
Fresh off his confirmation by the Senate on Tuesday to be the new commissioner of Social Security, Frank Bisignano faces a pile of oversight demands from Democrats and Republicans alike. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led a group of Democrats on...
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for closer scrutiny of the Marine Corps’ relationship with Oceanside-based Frontwave Credit Union, which handles direct deposits for thousands of Marine recruits every year. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Massachusetts...
Fresh off his confirmation by the Senate on Tuesday to be the new commissioner of Social Security, Frank Bisignano faces a pile of oversight demands from Democrats and Republicans alike. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led a group of Democrats on...