House Oversight Leaders Seek Childcare Payments and Other Help for Feds in Next COVID-19 Relief Bill

Government Executive: Leaders of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Monday proposed a laundry list of initiatives aimed at helping federal workers and contractors during the coronavirus outbreak, with the aim of including them in the next round of legislation responding to the crisis.

Federal employees and contractors need additional assistance to make it through the COVID-19 pandemic while fulfilling their agencies’ missions, said Committee Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

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