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Matt Bracken

Matt Bracken is the managing editor of FedScoop and CyberScoop, overseeing coverage of federal government technology policy and cybersecurity.

Before joining Scoop News Group in 2023, Matt was a senior editor at Morning Consult, leading data-driven coverage of tech, finance, health and energy. He previously worked in various editorial roles at The Baltimore Sun and the Arizona Daily Star.

You can reach him at matt.bracken@scoopnewsgroup.com.

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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’

Transition

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

The Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is seen on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. Elon Musk, tech billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his aids have been given access to federal employee personal data and have allegedly locked out career civil servants from the OPM computer systems. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

House Democrats urge agency heads to refute OPM email, Musk message

Workforce

Block on DOGE access to Treasury systems extended by federal judge

Federal