Michael Selig, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, appears during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Nov. 19, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Michael Selig told House Agriculture Committee members that the agency, down 20% from fiscal 2024, is “adequately staffed” to monitor markets, thanks in part to tech.
Treasury’s Do Not Pay service, which helps agencies and states verify identities and eligibility before issuing payments, now includes the SSA’s massive Numident database.
Signed by 115 lawmakers, the filing makes the case that the IRS-ICE pact “improperly challenges” Congress’s power to protect taxpayer information and will deprive the federal government…
The Government Accountability Office and a panel of experts ID’d eight privacy-related challenges that AI presents that aren’t totally accounted for in OMB guidance to agencies.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a press conference on Social Security in front of the U.S. Capitol on May 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Democratic members of Congress spoke about how President Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts are impacting Social Security. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Democracy Forward is suing the Social Security Administration over unfulfilled FOIA requests following a DOJ filing that revealed DOGE’s pact with a group looking for “evidence of…
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. James Adams III and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testify during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats in the Hart Senate Office Building on March 18, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers during a hearing that the agency is purchasing commercially available information that is then used in law enforcement operations.
Former agency staffers and experts believe the independent financial regulators’ MOU won’t “shake everything up,” but data and technology callouts bear watching.