Budget
Civilian IT budgets to dive in 2024, PSC forecasts
Expect a return to pre-pandemic IT spending levels in the coming years, the trade group warned.
House passes two-tiered stopgap bill days before shutdown
The novel approach to avert a funding lapse now heads to the Senate.
House GOP pulls funding bill covering IRS, GSA, OMB and more
The leadership team around new House Speaker Mike Johnson removed the bill — which would have defunded GSA’s digital services team, 18F — from floor consideration because of an intra-party policy dispute.
IRS hits key digitization goal months ahead of schedule
Although Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen plugged progress in IRS efforts to tame paper in the agency, she also emphasized that “playing politics with IRS funding is unacceptable.”
House picks new speaker, but shutdown threat looms
Federal agency missions often take a back seat amid preparations for a funding lapse.
Congress averts shutdown with a 45-day stopgap funding bill
Lawmakers passed a bipartisan measure just hours before a funding lapse was set to furlough hundreds of thousands of federal employees.
House passes last-minute CR, potentially averting a government shutdown
After days of brinkmanship, House Republicans passed a 45-day continuing resolution to keep the government open past Monday.
House fails to advance spending stopgap, pushing government to the brink of a shutdown
Senate will still attempt 11th-hour plan that faces uncertain future.
Biden administration begins cautioning feds to prepare for a shutdown
Degree of organization varies across government as agencies note a funding lapse could still be avoided.
Shutdown looms despite House GOP claims of progress toward spending plan
Confidence in a new short-term funding proposal was short-lived on Thursday.
TMF reboot looks to stabilize funding, increase transparency
The reauthorization of the Modernizing Government Technology Act is due for a committee markup on Wednesday.
Shutdowns and the ‘avalanche of work’ for government tech shops
Even if a shutdown doesn’t happen, planning for one has a real cost, former government CIOs say.
Path to averting a shutdown remains elusive as Senate looks to pass first FY24 spending bills
The upper chamber has bipartisan support for many of its funding measures and will look to put pressure on the divided House.
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