Reporters’ Roundup: USPS financial woes, DHS progress

These are the stories Federal News Radio reporters are working on today.

• The White House is willing to give the postal service ninety more days to pay a $5.5 billion bill to the federal retirement plans. But the Postal Service says that it won’t matter much because it’s financial hemorrhaging is so severe. Both sides testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. WFED’s Emily Kopp has the story.
• Rafael Borras came to the Homeland Security Department with a simple game plan. As the undersecretary for management, Borras has been focusing on three areas that long have challenged DHS. Borras tells Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller about the progress DHS is making in improving the oversight and implementation of one of those areas: acquisition.
• Federal agencies are making progress toward fulfilling the spirit of the White House’s open government directives. But the administration still needs to give agencies more direction and more support. That’s according to a new secrecy scorecard just out from a coalition of good government and consumer advocacy groups. Patrice McDermott is the director of OpenTheGovernment.org. She tells Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu the government has taken some unprecedented steps toward openness.

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