Kiran Ahuja previously served in the Office of Personnel Management and Department of Justice and led an Obama White House initiative to improve federal engagement with Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
The heads of the Senate Intelligence Committee urged the federal government to name a singular leader to run the response to a widespread hack attributed to Russian cyber actors.
According to critics, that damage includes a failed effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census questionnaire and a Trump order to figure out who is a citizen and who is in the U.S. illegally.
Kathleen McGettigan will once again lead the Office of Personnel Management in an acting capacity while the new president works to get permanent leadership confirmed.
U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham said in a statement that he would resign on Wednesday, the day Trump leaves the White House and President-elect Joseph Biden takes office.
The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee postponed votes on Office of Personnel Management director nominee John Gibbs to gather more information.
The U.S. Postal Service is prepared to handle an unprecedented influx of absentee ballots this November and any reports of the agency being overwhelmed or incapable are false, a senior postal elections official said Thursday at an event sponsored by Ohio’s elections chief.