Dan Garcia-Diaz is with the Watchdog Report to discuss GAO's review of rental housing trends and the impact COVID-19 could have on rent prices.

Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services deployed about 1,200 medical professionals to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. However, HHS has, at times, experienced shortages in the supply of these workers. We talk with Mary Denigan-Macauley, a health policy expert, about HHS's ability to respond to public health emergencies.

More than 60 million Americans receive retirement benefits from the federal government. This includes older Americans, who receive Social Security--as well as workers with disabilities, and their families. As life expectancy in the U.S. has increased, so have concerns about how these benefits are calculated and increased to include changes in cost of living. We talk to GAO's Charlie Jeszeck about how cost of living for retirement benefits is calculated.

The 2020 Census is well underway, but it faces challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic. Hear the latest from Chris Mihm, managing director of GAO's Strategic Issues Team, and Nick Marinos, a director in our Information Technology and Cybersecurity Team.

Jackie Nowicki is with the Watchdog Report to discuss GAO's review of K-12 school construction and renovation needs.

Every year, GAO provides an assessment of the Department of Defense's major acquisitions programs. Shelby Oakley talks about some new additions to this year's report.

Because they’'e so close to each other, and often have underlying health issues, nursing home residents are particularly vulnerable to the spread of diseases like COVID-19. John Dicken joins the Watchdog Report to discuss a GAO study of infection controls in the nation’s nursing homes prior to this current pandemic.

Jessica Lucas-Judy is with the Watchdog Report to talk about GAO's annual report on duplication, overlap, and fragmentation in federal programs.

Nick Marinos and Nathan Anderson join the Watchdog Report to discuss a Department of Homeland Security program providing a set of cybersecurity standards for chemical facilities.

Vijay D'Souza is on this episode of the Watchdog Report to

talk about deficiencies in the Internal Revenue Service’s information

system security controls.