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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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Howard Lutnick delivers remarks before being sworn in as Commerce secretary in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 21, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

NIST cuts would put US behind AI eightball, tech groups warn Commerce secretary

AI

President Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room flanked by Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank, Larry Ellison, executive charmain of Oracle, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the White House on Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Agency AI use case inventories must stay, groups tell Trump officials

Transition

Former Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., nominee to be the next deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Feb. 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

OMB deputy director nominee defends Elon Musk, DOGE’s ‘outstanding effort’

Policy

Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., speaks alongside members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus outside of the West Wing after a meeting with President Joe Biden on April 25, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Consumer product regulators would get AI assist from House bill

Policy

Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., speaks to supporters at the Nevada Democratic Party’s election results watch party at Aria Resort & Casino early on Nov. 6, 2024 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Senate bill targets DeepSeek ban from government devices

Policy

Jonathan McKernan, nominee for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, testifies at a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee on Feb. 27, 2025 at the Dirksen Senate Building in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

CFPB nominee signals openness to continuing data-broker work

Transition

President Donald Trump holds up paperwork during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Feb. 18, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump order calls for creation of DOGE-linked agency payment-tracking systems

Tech

Accountability Office Comptroller General Gene Dodaro waits for a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to begin on Capitol Hill on Feb. 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. At the start of a new Congress, the GAO delivers a report to highlight which federal programs are the highest risk of susceptibility to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

GAO has a blueprint for cost savings, but so far has gotten the cold shoulder from DOGE

Federal

People protest against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) outside of the US Department of Labor near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, 2025. (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

21 technologists quit USDS, saying DOGE demands ‘are not compatible with the mission’

Workforce