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Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins testifies before a Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs hearings on “Veterans at the Forefront, Focusing on the future at VA,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, May 6, 2025. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

VA systems lack accessibility standards needed by disabled veterans, IG says

The VA is responsible for 5.2 million veterans with military service-connected disabilities and 4.6 million with general disabilities, per data from 2023.
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst speaks during the third installment of The Senate Project at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate on June 12, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Sen. Ernst calls for federal IGs to investigate employees ‘phoning it in’ during telework

In addition to impacts on service delivery, Ernst wants to know worksite attendance rates at each agency and if steps have been taken "to adjust bureaucrats’ location-based…
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Prisoners look out of their jail window as protestors gather outside the federal detention center in Downtown Miami on June 12, 2020 in Miami, during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

DOJ watchdog publishes data dashboard to track COVID-19 vaccinations of prison inmates

It is part of a package of data being published in a bid to improve transparency about the spread of COVID-19 in federal prisons.
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