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In today's Federal Newscast, the Postal Service saw a more than 30% decrease in passport applications last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Veterans Affairs anticipates it will develop an enterprise wide staffing model for direct patient care positions by 2022, with the goal of validating it by 2024. Without one, auditors said VA lacks a clear picture of its workforce needs.
EPA senior officials failed to follow standard operating procedures in 2018, when they signed off on permit renewals for certain pesticides. Including leaving scientific documents out of the decision.
The Department of Veterans Affairs underestimated the costs of the physical infrastructure upgrades needed to prepare VA medical facilities for its new electronic health record. VA's IG said those upgrades may cost between $3.1 and 3.7 billion.
The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general is working with the National Academy of Public Administration on a five-year strategic plan and a path forward for implementing nearly two dozen recommendations from the Government Accountability Office.
A new working group has arisen at the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, the collective of all the federal IGs.
Through it all, USPS dealt with critical shortages of its employees, mail delays and a slew of federal lawsuits.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Veterans Affairs Department's Inspector General lays out some issues with the agency's COVID-19 response.
This week, Michael Binder spoke with Michael Missal, who has been Inspector General for the Department of Veterans Affairs since 2016.