Leadership removals, operational breakdowns, error-prone implementation and disputed personnel interventions.
A Government Accountability Office report made public Oct. 14 recommends that ICE adopt technology to automatically activate body cameras whenever officers draw a weapon, matching a practice Customs and Border Protection...
President Trump announced on Truth Social on Oct. 9, 2026, that Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator and senior communications adviser to Truth Social who briefly worked as a DHS spokesperson earlier in the year...
The State Department's inspector general found that USAGM's 2025 layoffs were carried out without analyzing their cost or effect on the agency's mission, Government Executive reported Oct. 5. In June 2025, USAGM sent...
A Government Accountability Office report released in early October 2026 found the State Department canceled roughly 4,300 foreign assistance awards -- about 25% of its portfolio, worth nearly $3 billion -- as of March...
Reuters reported late October 5, 2026 that the FBI removed an Accenture contractor after a breach, claimed by the hacking group ShinyHunters, exposed data on potentially thousands of bureau employees, including home...
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported, in findings publicized October 5, 2026, that 52 IRS employees made 86 unauthorized accesses to the tax records of 30 taxpayers -- described only as...
A Government Accountability Office report published September 30, 2026, found that after 2025 executive orders dismantled USAID and shifted its functions to the State Department, State could not produce evidence of the...
Congress eliminated funding for the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman and the administration has cut the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties from more than 100 employees to fewer than five...
President Trump said on September 30, 2026, that Federal Reserve Board member Jerome Powell should be "forced" to resign or face a lawsuit from the federal government, hours after the Fed's inspector general released a...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce, in a Sept. 30, 2026, address at Marine Corps Base Quantico, a plan to cut 20% of the Pentagon's general and admiral positions across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine...