Week of Jul 20 – 2026 (day: 26)
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TVA plans $963M to extend two coal plants past retirement -…
Alabama law requires ADOC to evaluate the county programs i…
A DOI Inspector General audit found one unreviewed BOR econ…
A federal audit found a college's net price, graduation rat…
Auditors couldn't find 18 of 70 sampled assets at the Lamar…
A Santa Rosa, Calif. credit union grew into cannabis loans…
FHFA's OIG questioned $65,690 of the $3.7M it paid employee…
NSF paid senior staff $17.1 million above legal salary caps…
AmeriCorps' own watchdog found YouthBuild's timekeeping so…
NASA's IG says it advanced $170.9 million to Boeing across…
Interior's inspector general found BLM's helium royalty tea…
Century, Florida's auditor gave no opinion on the Town's bo…
Pennsylvania's rate settlement locks data centers into a 10…
EPA's inspector general found $20 million in sewer-overflow…
Commerce OIG found Census's own anti-fraud reinterview chec…
DOL's inspector general says $912.5 million in fraud-tied p…
New York's state-supported debt is set to grow 64% to $98.8…
An FDIC inspector general found $4.6 million in unverified…
GSA's watchdog found 92% of sampled contracts misclassified…
Arizona's auditor found 77.7% of schools earned an A or B i…
A federal recount cut a Pittsburgh truck-driving program's…
Utah's DHHS failed to invoice manufacturers for $49.2M in M…
A Tennessee audit found $41 million in Memphis school food…
An inspector general found 172 reported child lead-poisonin…
Alabama funded its Medical Cannabis Commission with $21.7 m…
USDA's farm-credit and safety-net agency: loans, commodity…
Four ABC managers stored state vehicles at home for months…
An increase of about 65% since 2010. GAO found heavy-duty t…
Competitive contract obligations nearly doubled to $20 mill…
GAO reviewed 9 years of Treasury and IRS tax rulemaking, fo…
A Missouri audit found a high school marketed at $86.35M en…
A GAO report found neither program has completed the fraud…
GAO found the federal workforce fell 255,971 (-11.3%) in 13…
GAO's July 14, 2026 letter: ODNI implements just 48% of rec…
USAID's own inspector general found 9 of 15 sampled Latin A…
SVB and Signature Bank each ramped up FHLBank borrowing in…
State auditors found Illinois's $28.6B pension pool booked…
Connecticut auditors have flagged the same teacher-certific…
Michigan 211 averaged 3-6 minute answers against a 90-secon…
The FEC oversaw $28.3B in 2024 campaign money and a nearly…
NYC's housing agency let 3 towers spend $163,862 on gifts a…
FLRA's OIG found the payroll and benefits program -- over $…
USCP's OIG found the department raises pay for a pricier ou…
AOC's inspector general says its 2,600+ employees are outsi…
FWS drops automatic threatened-species protections again --…
USADF has blocked its own inspector general from two mandat…
A federal audit found $12.5 million of the $30.6 million Mi…
AbilityOne's FY2025 audit gave a clean opinion but found th…
For the ninth straight year, auditors could not verify Amer…
A Smithsonian OIG audit found Hirshhorn renovation invoices…
A Smithsonian OIG audit found its own preservation fund tra…
A DC OIG audit found DYRS left four former employees' acces…
A contract fight over who runs Maryland's benefit cards del…
WMATA's own Inspector General found 42.1% of $3 billion in…
State auditors found Speed, NC's bank accounts drained by a…
North Carolina auditors found Zebulon's reserve fell below…
A Baltimore city audit found $82.7 million in invoices canc…
GAO analyzed data USAID never reviewed and flagged 161 unus…
The model pricing Education's $1.6 trillion student loan bo…
A federal audit found NIH's All of Us contractor paid its C…
A DOL Inspector General audit found BLS let its market-movi…
A GAO audit found Treasury waited three years to start claw…
A June 2026 TIGTA audit found IRS reps failed 26% of sample…
A HUD audit found deficiencies in 65% of RAD-converted unit…
A DOL Inspector General audit found Texas's job-training ag…
An HHS Inspector General review found Medicaid maternal-car…
A Commerce OIG audit found NTIA's $42.45B BEAD broadband pr…
Oakland's rainy-day fund fell from $10.5M to zero in two ye…
One PBM clawed back about $100M from Iowa Medicaid pharmaci…
A DOE audit found the agency overpaid its share of a nuclea…
An Alaska audit found the health department left $279.8 mil…
PBGC's biggest pension-bailout payment counted 3,479 dead m…
As of January 2025, ICE had not served court notices to app…
State and USAID funded 470 China-influence projects since 2…
A federal audit tested just 1.4% of what Cornell charged NS…
FEMA has authorized $3.6 billion for its port-security gran…
Oregon's worker-protection agency's budget more than double…
A NASA audit finds Kennedy's launches grew 252% since 2020…
SBA's inspector general found the agency forgave $342.7 mil…
OPM cut over a third of its own staff and eliminated 10 off…
A federal probe found a New York museum improperly drew $59…
EXIM alone absorbed a $35 million fee cut on its $907 milli…
Peace Corps' inspector general flagged $492,644 in payroll…
GSA's watchdog sampled 158 of the building studies it paid…
TVA's inspector general found the fiber budget's per-mile c…
SIGAR's closing report finds the Pentagon can't reconcile u…
NRC's own watchdog found unclear guidance, thin staffing, a…
Reclamation booked $2.01B in drought payments as internal t…
One credit card custodian moved $878,115 through businesses…
Colorado's wildlife agency skipped legally required risk ch…
RRB auditors found 102 of 830 employers went unnotified for…
The FDIC hasn't reviewed the cost case for its 354-room emp…
Minnesota DNR paid three grantees $2,679,012 across 25 paym…
USPS paid $866 million settling labor grievances since FY20…
Montana spent $41.1M on wildfire protection in FY2023 but c…
Missouri's auditor found Arnold ran its tax district as a s…
South Dakota auditors sampled $1.42 million in ARPA child-c…
A Wyoming audit found Fort Washakie's reservation school sh…
South Carolina paused most new child-care scholarships in D…
The Navy paid $3.8 million in FY2024 to store spare parts a…
A state audit found Illinois prisons paid $151.7 million in…
New York prison overtime hit $708.9M in 2025, driving 87% o…
85% of the town's fuel spending over 22 months had no usage…
Michigan and Massachusetts improperly waived $241M in pande…
Rhode Island's FY2025 audit found 29 control failures, up f…
Mississippi's state auditor demanded $7.4 million from a pr…
PA's auditor tested $5.1M in EMS-fund payments and found 68…
An Arkansas audit found Pine Bluff's Parks Department could…
A NH audit found its human rights commission averaged 2.3 y…
Virginia's own risk tool says who needs prison classes. Enr…
A federal audit found EPA underreported $63.2 million in ba…
West Virginia auditors found DOT consultant spending grew 9…
USDA allocated $335.7M in disaster aid across 160 competing…
FirstNet Authority can't verify eligibility on AT&T's $6.5B…