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White House misses deadline to deliver sequestration report, says plan coming next week
The White House plans to deliver a report to Congress late next week detailing how automatic, across-the-board cuts, set to take effect in January, will affect specific programs. The report is required under the Sequestration Transparency Act, which Congress overwhelmingly passed this summer and which the President signed on Aug. 7. The law directed the President to issue the detailed report within 30 days of signing it - a deadline that came this week and went unmet.
Tags: sequestration , Jay Carney , John Thune , Sequestration Transparency Act , budget , OMB , Jack Moore
OMB's Zients hints at making strategic sourcing mandatory
The President's Management Advisory Board wants agencies to focus on reducing improper payments and making strategic sourcing mandatory.
Tags: PMAB , budget , improper payments , strategic sourcing , contracting , aquisition , Greg Brown , Gail McGovern , Rick Vogel , Ruben Gomez , Federal Drive
OMB touts $4B in efficiency savings
Acting Director Jeff Zients wrote in a blog post today that agencies have met half of President Obama's goal to save $8 billion by the end of 2013.
Tags: management , OMB , budget , efficiencies , Interior , USDA , SSA , GSA , Jason Miller
Dr. Strangelove: Or How We Learned To Love Sequestration
Coming soon...maybe...to a federal agency near you: Sequestration. Everybody is talking about it and nobody is doing anything about it. Congress set up the Dr. Strangelove-like time bomb to force it to do something...but so far nobody is doing anything but warning about federal furloughs and layoffs that could also devastate the contractor community.....
Tags: Mike Causey , Your Turn with Mike Causey , pay and benefits , sequestration , workforce , Congress ,
Farm subsidies, FBI, air controllers face big cuts
Tags: OMB , Center on Budget and Policy Priorities , Tom Harkin , budget , sequestration , Richard Kogan , Scott Lilly , Center for American Progress , Congress
In Depth interviews - August 7
On the In Depth show blog, you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , David Wise , Michael Phillips , Ashton Carter , David Hendel , Tom Shoop , Doug Criscitello , budget , NASA , USPS , IRS
Cass Sunstein stepping down from OIRA
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Cass Sunstein is returning to Harvard, where he was the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law before coming to the Obama administration in 2009.
Tags: Cass Sunstein , OIRA , White House , Federal Drive , OMB , Darrell Issa , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Budget-and-tax impasse threatens troops, economy
Tags: Congress , budget , tax cuts , DoD , Army , Navy , Air Force , Marine Corps , Ashton Carter , Steny Hoyer , John Boehner
OMB to begin planning for sequestration
Faced with congressional inaction in averting looming across-the-board cuts that take effect in January, the Office of Management and Budget will begin meeting with agency leaders to discuss how the cuts will be implemented. In a memo to agency heads, OMB Director Jeff Zients said his office will consult with agencies to determine which budget accounts and programs are exempt from sequestration.
Tags: OMB , budget , sequestration , Congress , Sequestration Transparency Act , House Armed Service Committee , Jack Moore
House passes bill requiring White House to hand over sequestration details
The House handily approved a bipartisan bill requiring the Obama administration to provide more information about how automatic, across-the-board cuts, known as sequestration, will be implemented starting in January. While the vote cut across party lines, lawmakers continue to disagree about ways to come up with alternatives.
Tags: OMB , budget , Congress , House , sequestration , Paul Ryan , Chris Van Hollen , Todd Young , defense industry , Jack Moore
