Investigative Journalism & In-Depth Reporting
Federal and state government oversight, inspector general reports, and audit findings
TIJ's daily scan of the Federal Register: Executive Order 14407 rewrites the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule, the SEC proposes to rescind climate-related disclosure rules, CMS implements Medicaid community-engagement requirements, and…
TIJ's weekly digest: a Pentagon IG report on stalled civilian-harm policies, a $53M SEC whistleblower payout, record DOJ False Claims Act recoveries, and EPA retaliation complaints.
GAO finds the Pentagon eliminated 78,000 civilian jobs without consistent impact analysis, while auditors flag corporate-transparency gaps, $250M in BOP First Step Act spending, and municipal collapses in three states.
House Appropriations advanced a FY27 Interior bill cutting EPA roughly 20%; Senate prepared a 2:15 p.m. vote on S.J. Res. 188; Oversight's Bondi contempt and prediction-markets tracks remain active.
Two new Trump executive orders top the Federal Register: realigning the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule with peer nations and rescinding 50-year-old off-road vehicle restrictions. The SEC moves to rescind climate…
The Defense Department transmitted ten arms-sales notifications to Congress, the CFTC issued a substituted-compliance order for Goldman Sachs Paris, and OFAC added counterterrorism designations — a snapshot of the May…
Senate invokes cloture 51-45 to advance Kevin Warsh to the Federal Reserve chairmanship as Capitol Hill convenes nuclear-stewardship, grid-permitting, and AI-in-banking hearings.
Commerce opens the Section 232 pharmaceutical onshoring window; Treasury, Labor, and HHS propose new fertility excepted-benefit category; EPA, FCC, DEA, and CBP rules — May 13 Federal Register summary.
TIJ's monthly State Watch surveys May 2026 accountability findings — including a $5M North Carolina aid referral, Chicago's two-notch GO downgrade, $4.6M in California cellphone waste, Maryland's deepening fiscal gap,…
An Investigative Journal accountability digest. Records suggest the federal oversight community is operating at reduced capacity even as new fraud findings, whistleblower disclosures, and qui tam recoveries continue to pile…