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Matt Bracken

Matt Bracken is editor in chief of FedScoop and the former managing editor of CyberScoop. Before joining Scoop News Group in 2023, Matt worked in various editing, reporting and digital roles at Morning Consult, The Baltimore Sun and the Arizona Daily Star. You can reach him at matt.bracken@scoopnewsgroup.com.

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Navajo Indians line up in their vehicles on May 21, 2020, to collect water and supplies from a distribution point as the COVID-19 virus spreads through the Navajo Nation, in Monument Valley at the Utah and Arizona border. (Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

IHS has delivered billions in water and waste projects to tribal lands. This engineer made it happen

Federal

An exterior view of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Washington D.C., on Jan. 5, 2023. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Court documents reveal ICE request for nearly 1.3 million taxpayer records

Federal

A view of the Department of Justice headquarters on April 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

How DOJ attorneys and EPA engineers secured a record Clean Air Act penalty

Workforce

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., speaks onstage at the Puck Power Breakfast on Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Puck)

GOP senator: Legal immigration is ‘critical’ to US success in AI race

AI

(Handout photo courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Energy reveals plans for two new AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge

AI

A Department Of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection sign is displayed at the CBP headquarters on May 18, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Justice reveals IRS request from CBP amid ICE data-sharing lawsuit

Federal

Edward Forst, nominee for GSA administrator, testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Screenshot)

GSA nominee open to reviewing Grok AI selection process

AI

(Design/Illustration by Shanima Parker / Scoop News Group)

DOGE went ‘slash and burn’ on EPA grants. Scientists fear ‘grave’ impacts

Tech

Demonstrators protest against President Donald Trump and DOGE’s plan to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in front of the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 10, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Consumer group warns against changes to CFPB rule on personal financial data

Policy