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A Remotely Piloted Aircraft pilot flies a training mission at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Emily Kenney)

Drone pilots driven out of Air Force by stress, poor working conditions

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this July 21, 2020, file photo, Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf, speaks during a news conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

DHS says top officials legally appointed, calls GAO report part of ‘partisan impeachment effort’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 18, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he tours a section of the southern border wall, in Otay Mesa, Calif., as acting Homeland Secretary Kevin McAleenan listens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Trump illegally installed top DHS officials: Government watchdog

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - This May 2018 file photo shows an aerial view of the Holyoke Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, Mass., where dozens of residents died from the coronavirus during the 2020 pandemic. An independent investigation released Wednesday, June 24, 2020, said the home's leadership made &quot;substantial errors and failures&quot; as the disease began to spread. Massachusetts' Secretary of Veterans Services Francisco Urena told reporters he was asked to resign ahead of the release of the report. (Patrick Johnson/The Republican via AP, File)

Gaps in federal oversight add to virus woes at vets homes

By HOPE YEN - Associated Press

In this April 23, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump's name is seen on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Feds sent coronavirus stimulus checks to 1.1 million dead people

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this March 28, 2018 file photo, former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn speaks at a news conference in Oklahoma City. Coburn died on March 28, 2020. Thanks to a 2010 provision to eliminate duplication in government-agency spending that he wrote, some $393 billion in cost savings for the federal government has been realized, according to a report published May 19 by the Government Accountability Office. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) **FILE**

Tom Coburn’s anti-duplication effort has saved Uncle Sam $393 billion: GAO

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 11, 2014, file photo, Danny Joe delivers mail in the rain in San Bruno Calif. (AP Photo/Alex Washburn, File)

GAO says Post Office ‘unsustainable,’ urges congressional action

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - This May 2018 file photo ,shows an aerial view of the Holyoke Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, Mass. Nearly 70 residents have died from the coronavirus at the central Massachusetts home for aging veterans, as state and federal officials try to figure out what went wrong in the deadliest outbreak at a long-term care facility in the U.S. (Patrick Johnson/The Republican via AP, File)

US senators seek probe of veterans homes after virus deaths

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press

In this May 1, 2017, photo, a pregnant Olivia Tincani of Calif., paints a supportive message to immigrant farmworkers as she joins a large group protesters outside the White House to denounce President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant policies on May Day in Washington. The Trump administration says pregnant women charged with being in the United States illegally will no longer receive special considerations that allowed them to be released while their cases wind through immigration court, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday, March 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

ICE given good marks for treatment of pregnant migrants in audit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

in this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, migrants are detained in a tented, air-conditioned cage at a Border Patrol detention facility in Tornillo, Texas. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio File) **FILE**

GAO: Border Patrol needlessly spent $12M at Texas facility

By CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press

This March 27, 2008, aerial file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

GAO sees persisting problems in privatized military housing

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Report: Feds need to do more to prevent failures at Hanford

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks before signing a trade agreement with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump broke law by withholding Ukraine money, Congress’ legal branch says

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2020. file photo, President Donald Trump, left, and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, right, walk along the colonnade of the White House in Washington. The federal government's watchdog agency says a White House office violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine aid. The Government Accountability Office said Thursday the White House Office of Management and Budget violated the law in holding up the assistance. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Watchdog: White House violated law in freezing Ukraine aid

By ANDREW TAYLOR and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

Land management relocation plan to receive further scrutiny

Associated Press

Government Accountability Office, defense capabilities and management director Elizabeth Field, left, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville, Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger, Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett, and Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein testify during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee about about ongoing reports of substandard housing conditions Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 in Washington, on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Privatized military housing failures get Senate hearing

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - This Oct. 30, 2019 file photo provided by the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality shows affected land from a Keystone oil pipeline leak near Edinburg, North Dakota. The crude oil spill from has turned out to have affected almost 10 times the amount of land as first reported, a state regulator said Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. (North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality/Taylor DeVries via AP, File)

Congress wants review of Keystone pipeline in wake of spill

By JAMES MacPHERSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2017 photo, boats are shown moored in the Anclote River near the old Stauffer chemical plant site in Tarpon Springs, Fla. Hundreds of the nation's most polluted places are at an increasing risk of spreading contamination beyond their borders by more frequent storms and rising seas. Sixty percent of U.S. Superfund sites are in danger from weather extremes like hurricanes or wildfires, and the Trump administration’s reluctance to acknowledge and plan for climate change is hurting chances of safeguarding them, according to a government watchdog. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

GAO: 60% of Superfund sites at higher risk in climate change

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

The F-35 fighter jet faces major issues. This includes poor performance of the information technology system used to sustain the aircraft. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Advanced F-35 jet plagued by readiness woes, Pentagon officials say

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, March 28, 2019, file photo, a military bugler plays taps during a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) ** FILE **

Plan to build 18 veteran cemeteries by 2017 so far behind it will take another 10 years

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times