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Matt Bracken

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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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., holds a hearing on AI in the financial and housing sectors on July 23, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Screenshot from livestream of hearing).

GOP lawmakers, financial leaders ‘leery’ of rushing AI rules on the sector

AI

SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman testifies before the House Committee on Small Business in Washington, D.C., on April 27, 2022. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

SBA moving ahead with upgrades to certification system despite GOP protest

Modernization

CrowdStrike, RSA 2019 — (Scoop News Group photo)

Federal agencies affected by worldwide IT outage

Cyber

The North Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

White House advisers push for expanded Pathways Program to fill agency STEM gaps

Workforce

The Treasury Department building is seen in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, 2023. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Treasury group unveils guidance for financial sector on cloud adoption

Cyber

Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., talk outside the Senate Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on April 7, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Energy Department’s national labs get AI boost in bipartisan Senate bill

AI

A user looks at the IRS Direct File program in front of the tax agency’s building on April 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Economic Security Project)

How the IRS’s ‘cautious’ approach with Direct File prevented its ‘failure’

Tech

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

Data tracking, AI and modernization: How SSA has ditched its paper-based past

Tech

CFPB Director Rohit Chopra speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2023. (Photo by Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images)

CFPB urged by consumer groups to take action on banks’ use of algorithms

Policy