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Transportation Security Administration officers screen passengers and check their luggages as they go through security in Terminal 7 of Los Angeles International Airport, in Los Angeles, on March 23, 2026. (Etienne Laurent / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

DHS taps dataset of baggage images to improve TSA scans

The agency’s science and technology group contracted with a vendor for synthetic data capabilities to support algorithm development and testing.
Russell Vought testifies before a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Capitol Hill on June 30, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

House Democrats grill Vought over DOGE’s CFPB data dives

The agency’s acting director and OMB head struggled to get a word in as House Financial Services Committee Democrats hammered him on DOGE, website deletions and more.
From left, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo.,, ranking member Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., and Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, hold a hearing in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 4, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Republicans want data scientists at the IRS. Trump axed those roles last year, Dems say

House Ways & Means advanced a bill to create an IRS fellowship program to recruit data scientists — the “very people that the Trump regime just spent…
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Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano arrives at a House Ways and Means Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on June 10, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

SSA hasn’t marked living people as dead in database, commissioner says

Frank Bisignano responded to a whistleblower complaint about a DOGE-DHS plan to move living individuals to the Death Master File as an immigration enforcement strategy.
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