How to spend $787 billion
The Office of Management and Budget issued a 62-page memo (pdf) to agency heads today detailing how to manage the $787 billion in stimulus funding approved by lawmakers and signed into law by...
View ArticleGearing up for grants
Can agencies handle the upcoming crush of stimulus grant applications? Apparently Grants.gov is already seeing a big spike in traffic. So OMB director Peter Orszag wants agencies to review their grant...
View ArticleOrszag: Poor performers need a plan
I’m at the release event for the Partnership for Public Service’s 2009 “Best Places to Work” report, which measures employee satisfaction at agencies across the government. We’ve got a quick summary of...
View ArticleOMB director to staff: Step to it.
As a runner and general fitness nut, I was pleasantly surprised to find a press release in my inbox from the Office of Management and Budget this morning announcing a new mandate for OMB staff: wear a...
View Article10,000 + ways to SAVE
Federal employees have submitted more than 10,000 money-saving tips to the Office of Management and Budget’s SAVE Award contest in the last week, OMB director Peter Orszag announced today. OMB launched...
View ArticleNew OMB performance guidelines
OMB director Peter Orszag sent an 8-page memo to agencies today outlining new performance management guidelines. Here it is (pdf). Thoughts to come later this morning once I’ve actually had a chance to...
View ArticleGovernment errors could mean big problems for contractors
Contractors could face suspension, debarment or financial penalties if they fail to return and report an improper payment made by the government…even if the improper payment is the government’s fault....
View ArticleMore money SAVE-ing ideas
While Nancy Fitchner’s SAVE Award winning idea to let veterans take home their unused prescriptions from Veterans Affairs Department hospitals will be the one included in the 2011 budget, that doesn’t...
View ArticleOrszag had Jon Stewart at ‘Good morning’
In case you haven’t heard, White House budget director Peter Orszag’s home life just got a lot more complicated. For the appropriate — and always tasteful — analysis on Orszag’s “magnetic machismo,” we...
View ArticleOrszag on 1.4% pay raise: “To a lot of Americans, that sounds pretty good”
Happy budget day! I’m running from one press conference to another — but a couple of quick notes from the just-ended press conference with OMB director Peter Orszag. First, he offered a couple of...
View ArticlePay stubs going electronic for 640K employees
For about 640,000 federal employees at agencies like the Homeland Security and Treasury departments, the paper pay stub will soon be a thing of the past. White House budget director Peter Orszag...
View ArticleTreasury switching to direct deposit for benefits
It’s amazing how expensive something as simple as benefit checks can be. The Treasury Department is getting ready to stop mailing government benefits to citizens in check form and, instead, switching...
View ArticleReport: Orszag to leave White House
Office and Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag will step down next month, Bloomberg News reported last night. No official word yet on why Orszag may be leaving. OMB spokesman Ken Baer said “At...
View ArticleThey always come in threes…
First Peter Orszag. Then Gen. Stanley McChrystal. And CNN just reported that Kal Penn, better known as Kumar, has officially left the White House. It’s hard to tell which will be the most devastating...
View ArticleDHS gets federal cybersecurity portfolio
The Office of Management and Budget has officially tabbed the Homeland Security Department to oversee cybersecurity in the executive branch, as OMB indicated would be the case in April. A memo this...
View ArticleObama taps Jacob Lew to head OMB
President Obama has just selected Jacob Lew to replace Peter Orszag as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. More to come.
View ArticleOrszag’s farewell speech set for Wednesday
Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag will appear at the Brookings Institution Wednesday, where he’ll give his last public speech before departing the government. The White House said...
View ArticleOrszag gets unwanted musical tribute
Peter Orszag was serenaded this morning following his final public speech as Office of Management and Budget chief, but the a cappella number was anything but a love song. “Peter Orszag and Larry...
View ArticleZeints to helm OMB until Lew confirmed
Politico is reporting that federal chief performance officer Jeffrey Zeints will be the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget until Peter Orszag’s replacement, Jack Lew, is confirmed...
View ArticleSenate panel approves Lew nomination
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 9-0 this morning to confirm Jacob “Jack” Lew as the next director of the Office of Management and Budget. Lew’s nomination,...
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