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Matt Bracken is the editor in chief of FedScoop. 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 on Signal at MattBracken.33 or email him at matt.bracken@scoopnewsgroup.com.

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A Social Security Administration office in Washington, D.C., is pictured March 26, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump administration wants SCOTUS to weigh in on DOGE Social Security access

Transition

The Department of Veterans Affairs building is seen in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 2019. (Photo by Alastair Pike / AFP)

Trump budget offers big increase to VA’s EHR effort, cuts to agency IT systems

Modernization

A sign marks the location of the General Services Administration headquarters building on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

GSA changes TMF repayment model with ‘longevity’ in mind

Modernization

A view of a Social Security Administration building in Burbank, Calif., on Nov. 5, 2020. (Photo by Valerie Macon /AFP via Getty Images)

Appeals court upholds block on DOGE access to Social Security systems

Transition

Rodney Scott, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 30, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News)

Customs and Border Protection’s AI investments won’t erase need for officers, nominee says

Transition

Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, center, testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Legislative Branch subcommittee, while Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel, left, and Government Publishing Office Director Hugh Halpern, right, look on. The hearing was held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

GAO audits of DOGE’s ‘digital footprint’ in IT systems underway

Federal

People walk past the headquarters of the Small Business Administration in the Southwest Federal Center area on March 24, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

SBA watchdog warns agency of vulnerabilities from user devices

Cyber

Elon Musk shows off a shirt that says “DOGE” as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 2025. (Photo by Oliver Contreras / AFP) (Photo by OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Judge OK’s labor groups’ challenge to DOGE data work at DOL, CFPB, HHS

Transition

A person promotes the Direct File pilot program at the Internal Revenue Service building on April 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Economic Security Project)

Trump administration set to end IRS’s Direct File program, per source

Tech