President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary, Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary and Todd Ricketts as deputy commerce secretary. Mnuchin, Ross and Ricketts will help implement Trump’s America First economic plan
MoreThe Treasury Department‘s inspector general for tax administration has found that the Internal Revenue Service failed to mitigate security risks for randomly selected information technology contracts worth $81.3 million. TIGTA said Tuesday that it picked
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Trevor Rudolph, chief of the cyber and national security unit at the Office of Management and Budget, will step down from his position by the end of November to join cyber startup Whitehawk, Federal
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The Treasury Department‘s inspector general for tax administration has found that as of March 25, the Internal Revenue Service identified suspected tax refund fraud cases valued at $72 million driven by the introduction of three
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The Treasury Departmentâs Bureau of the Fiscal Service has initiated its search for a candidate who will serve as both chief information officer and assistant commissioner for information and security services. The bureau said
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David Saltiel, former chief economist of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, has joined the Securities and Exchange Commission as associate director of the office of analytics and research within SEC’s trading and markets division. He will
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President Barack Obama has called for greater diversity in the national security workforce which includes the departments of State, Defense, Justice, Treasury, Homeland Security, the Intelligence Community and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Obama
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The White House has announced seven new initiatives as part of the Third Open Government National Action Plan that seeks to promote transparency, innovation and accountability in the government. The White House
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The Congressional Budget Office has said a Senate bill that would require the Treasury Department and the Export-Import Bank to submit annual reports on the sale of commercial planes and aircraft parts to Iran would
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A Congressional Budget Office report says the federal budget deficit for the first 10 months of fiscal year 2016 reached $514 billion, about $49 billion higher than the agencyâs shortfall estimates for the same
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