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GovExec Daily: Removing Barriers to Innovation in COVID-19 Legislation
Stan Soloway joined the podcast to explain how the pandemic is an opportunity for legislation modernizing some aspects of government.
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GovExec Daily: Despite a Pandemic, Border Wall Construction Continues
Courtney Bublé joins the podcast to explain how President Trump's major project is doing during COVID-19 crisis.
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GovExec Daily: When Should the Quarantine End?
A former senior economist at the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers and author of a cost-benefit analysis on mitigation rules explains to the podcast why these rules are in place and how long they may have to continue.
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Analysis: What Federalism Means for the Coronavirus Response
Throughout the coronavirus crisis, President Trump has made inconsistent statements about who is responsible for key aspects of the nation’s response to the pandemic. The Constitution has the answer.
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Congress Is Investigating Whether a Ventilator Company Is Gouging the U.S. — and Why the Government Is Letting It Happen
A congressional subcommittee is questioning a federal decision to pay quadruple the price for the commercial version of a ventilator Royal Philips N.V. had developed with taxpayer funds.
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GovExec Daily: Coronavirus Fears and Meat Inspection
Katherine McIntire Peters and Eric Katz join the podcast to discuss how Food Safety Inspection Service employees voiced their concerns about the coronavirus at meat processing plants.
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GovExec Daily: How to Communicate During a Pandemic
The Partnership for Public Service’s Samantha Donaldson joins the podcast to explain the clarity agencies need to have while communicating during the coronavirus crisis.
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GovExec Daily: Overseeing Agencies' Pandemic Response
Katherine McIntire Peters and Courtney Bublé join the podcast to discuss how IGs, agencies and Congress can account for the money in the CARES Act will be
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Government Watchdog: Millions Wasted on Tornillo Migrant Detention Facility
The Government Accountability Office found that the government spent $66 million in taxpayer money over five months to hold an average of 28 people per day at the tent encampment near El Paso.
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Proposed Legislation Seeks to Protect Inspectors General From Political Firings
Bill would establish seven-year terms and only allow “for cause” removals.
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Trump Removed the Head of the Coronavirus Bailout Oversight Board. Its Members Could Be Next.
Democrats are scrambling to stop the president from replacing independent government watchdogs after he quickly pushed aside the leader of coronavirus bailout oversight.
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Trump Removes Acting Pentagon IG Slated to Lead Pandemic Oversight
Only current IGs may serve in the new position created by Congress to oversee the government's coronavirus relief effort.
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How OSHA Has Failed to Protect America’s Workers From COVID-19
Efforts to create a federal rule to protect workers from infectious diseases were put on ice in President Donald Trump’s first year in office.
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GovExec Daily: Oversight of the Stimulus Plan
IBM Center for the Business of Government Senior Fellow John Kamensky joins the podcast to discuss the accountability provisions in the CARES Act
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Federal Prisons Pose ‘Imminent Danger’ in Spreading COVID-19, Union Says
A complaint filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cites hazards at 100 of 122 facilities nationwide.
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Who Has Emergency Authority Over Elections? Nobody’s Quite Sure.
The tug of war over whether and how to hold Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary exposes a national problem: State and local officials with the most experience running elections lack the power to revamp or postpone voting during a crisis.
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Trump Fires Intel IG, Taps White House Confidant for Pandemic Oversight Role
The president’s moves late Friday night underscore the vital role inspectors general play as agencies grapple with pandemic response and unprecedented federal spending.
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Trump Administration Draws Fire for New Description of National Stockpile
The changed website language reflects controversial comments by Jared Kushner that downplayed the federal role.
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No, Mr. President, You Can’t Be the Oversight
Trump’s signing statement attempts to preclude the special inspector general for pandemic recovery from reporting directly to Congress, which is anathema to the role of an IG.
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Where’s the Money? Keep an Eye on the CARES Act
With the passage of the $2.3 trillion economic relief bill, things are happening at breakneck speed.
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