
Matt Bracken
Managing Editor at FedScoop
Managing Editor at CyberScoop
Managing editor of @FedScoop & @CyberScoopNews. Previously seen @MorningConsult, @baltimoresun & @TucsonStar. Michigan Man. Signal: MattBracken.33
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1 day ago |
fedscoop.com | Matt Bracken
The Small Business Administration’s top official told lawmakers this week that DOGE has found billions of dollars in savings via canceled contracts and identified hundreds of millions in fraudulent loans thanks to “data analytics” — but declined to share specifics behind those big-money claims.
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2 days ago |
fedscoop.com | Matt Bracken
In the aftermath of DOGE incursions into Social Security Administration computer systems, a trio of Senate Democrats is pushing legislation that would require performance and security audits into what the Elon Musk-founded group left behind in those networks. The Protecting Seniors’ Data Act of 2025, introduced Wednesday by Sens.
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3 days ago |
fedscoop.com | Matt Bracken
Elon Musk’s semi-exit from the federal government hasn’t derailed the supposed efficiency work his DOGE deployees are doing at federal agencies, a reality the White House’s top budget official said Wednesday he’d like to cement. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought told lawmakers on the House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee that he envisions “some of the consulting work” DOGE has done to continue in the Executive Office of the President.
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3 days ago |
fedscoop.com | Matt Bracken
Congress has better agency software buying practices in its sights once again, with a bipartisan group of six senators reintroducing a bill Wednesday that would strengthen federal oversight and management of such purchases.
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4 days ago |
fedscoop.com | Matt Bracken
Eight years since its launch, Login.gov has narrowed the capabilities gap with many of its commercial counterparts, according to the Government Accountability Office, but there’s one outstanding data priority that the General Services Administration’s single sign-on platform needs to address.
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