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What GAO Found Over the course of 2025, federal agencies took steps to reduce the size of their workforces in response to presidential directives. These steps included offering incentives for employees to voluntarily resign or retire, implementing reductions in force, and restricting hiring for most positions. Data reported by 22 major federal agencies showed that nearly 378,000 employees separated from these agencies during 2025. About 65 percent of those separations came in the second half of the year as employees who had taken a deferred resignation offer departed their agencies. By contrast, these agencies reported they hired a total of about 127,000 employees, including temporary emplo.
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What GAO Found Facing the retirement of the International Space Station (ISS), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is planning to replace it with one or more commercially owned and operated space stations. NASA’s goal is to transition from the ISS, a government-owned platform, to commercial space stations to ensure the U.S. maintains a continuous presence in low-Earth orbit (LEO). NASA is working with six U.S. companies to develop and certify commercial space stations that NASA and other customers could use in LEO. NASA has been working with the companies to mature their initial space station designs. NASA’s Commercial Providers’ Space Station Concepts As of May 2026, N.
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What GAO Found Since fiscal year 2020, the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have used an interagency proposal process to allocate funding for countering Chinese influence projects. An interagency working group has overseen the process and drafted annual guidance for bureaus and posts around the world to submit proposals for funding. The guidance specifies that proposals should address specific lines of effort, which include issue areas such as economic coercion and military exports. However, the proposal process does not require bureaus and posts to seek input from key stakeholders with issue area or regional expertise. Providing documented input.
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Federal Communications Commission | Notice | As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the following information collection. Comments are requested concerning: whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the information shall have practical utility; the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the informat.
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State Department | Notice | Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: I hereby determine that certain objects being imported from abroad pursuant to agreements with their foreign owners or custodians for temporary display in the exhibition "Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, and at possible additional exhibitions or venues yet to be determined, are of cultural significance, and, further, that their temporary exhibition or display within the United States as aforementioned is in the national interest. I have ordered that Public Notice of these determinations be published in the Federal Register.
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What GAO Found In May 2025, GAO identified nine priority recommendations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Since then, HUD has not implemented these recommendations. In June 2026, GAO identified an additional two priority recommendations and removed the priority designation from one recommendation, bringing the total to 10. GAO is highlighting the following two areas that warrant timely and focused attention: Reducing fraud and fragmentation in federal disaster recovery and Improving financing and availability of manufactured housing. By addressing GAO's recommendations in these areas, HUD could improve service delivery to disaster survivors and communities, improve.
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What GAO Found The Department of Labor's (DOL) Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) closed 5,433 Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) complaints from fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2025, according to GAO’s analysis of USERRA complaint data. The number of complaints increased each year, reaching its highest level in fiscal year 2025 (1,380 complaints), the same year VETS experienced a 23 percent reduction in its complaint investigation staffing levels. During this period, VETS closed USERRA complaints within 90 days on average, the general time frame specified in statute. Most complaints were closed for administrative reasons, including a servi.
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What GAO Found Agencies can use more than 100 federal data sources—or a combination of them—to verify if recipients meet the eligibility criteria for federal programs throughout the award life cycle (which includes pre-award screening, post-award monitoring, and payment validation). As of September 2025, these included 28 data sources in the Do Not Pay working system (DNP) or designated for inclusion in DNP. However, weaknesses in data interoperability may hinder agencies’ ability to efficiently determine award and payment eligibility. Data interoperability is the ability to share and disseminate standardized data in a way that is efficient, consistent, and accessible across different syste.
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What GAO Found The Office of National Drug Control Policy’s (ONDCP) Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program provides grants for community-based coalitions focused on drug use prevention efforts for youth 18 and under. In the 2025 evaluation report, it is claimed that the DFC program is meeting its strategic goal of reducing substance use among youth. However, that report states that it is not possible to establish a causal relationship between substance use changes in communities and the DFC program. Selected statements on the Effectiveness of the Drug-Free Communities Support Program from the June 2025 National Cross-Site Evaluation Report GAO found significant limitations in the progr.
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What GAO Found In May 2025, GAO identified four priority recommendations for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Since then, FDIC has implemented one of those recommendations, bringing the total to three. GAO is highlighting the following two areas that warrant timely and focused attention: Strengthening bank supervision, and Addressing blockchain technology risks. Addressing GAO's recommendations in these areas could help FDIC mitigate threats to independence and ensure that supervisory escalation decisions are independent and evidence-based, and identify and respond to blockchain-related risks in a timely manner. Taking action to implement all of GAO's open priority recommen.
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What GAO Found In May 2025, GAO identified 17 priority recommendations for the Small Business Administration (SBA). Since then, SBA has implemented three of those recommendations, bringing the total to 14. GAO is highlighting the following two areas that warrant timely and focused attention: Improving oversight of COVID-19 pandemic programs Addressing cybersecurity and IT management challenges Addressing GAO's recommendations in these areas would help SBA more strategically manage program fraud risks and respond to cybersecurity and IT management risks. Taking action to implement all of GAO's open priority recommendations would help enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of operations acr.
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What GAO Found Recent conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East prove that robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) are disrupting naval warfare and challenging traditional naval superiority. To provide more adaptable, dispersed operations, the Navy intends to shift away from its World War II-era operating model, which was based on closely knit battle groups comprised of several traditional platforms, such as planes, ships and submarines. According to Navy strategic documents, a hybrid fleet is necessary to enable this shift and would incorporate smaller, more numerous, and distributed capabilities—including RAS capabilities—as a complement to larger, more individually powerful, traditional capa.
