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  2. List of defunct or renamed United States federal agencies

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    Sallie Mae has been fully privatized and is no longer administered by the federal government. Foreign Economic Administration (FEA) Federal Theatre Project (FTP) General Accounting Office (GAO) Renamed "Government Accountability Office" in 2004; see #Legislative Branch, above. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Formed in 1953.

  3. Independent agencies of the United States federal government

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    The Export–Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) is the official export credit agency (ECA) of the United States federal government. Operating as a wholly owned federal government corporation, the bank "assists in financing and facilitating U.S. exports of goods and services", particularly when private sector lenders are unable or unwilling ...

  4. List of federal agencies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A–Z Index of US Departments and Agencies, USA.gov, the US government's official web portal. Directory of agency contact information. CyberCemetery, online document archive of defunct US Federal Agencies, maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries in partnership with the Federal Depository Library Program of the GPO

  5. Alphabet agencies - Wikipedia

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    The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The earliest agencies were created to combat the Great Depression in the United States and were established during Roosevelt's first 100 days in office in 1933. In total, at least 69 offices ...

  6. Office of Defense Mobilization - Wikipedia

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    The Office of Defense Mobilization (ODM) was an independent agency of the United States government whose function was to plan, coordinate, direct and control all wartime mobilization activities of the federal government, including manpower, economic stabilization, and transport operations. It was established in 1950, and for three years was one ...

  7. Presidential reorganization authority - Wikipedia

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    The customary method by which agencies of the United States government are created, abolished, consolidated, or divided is through an act of Congress. [2] The presidential reorganization authority essentially delegates these powers to the president for a defined period of time, permitting the President to take those actions by decree. [3]

  8. United States home front during World War I - Wikipedia

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    Congress authorized President Woodrow Wilson to create a bureaucracy of 500,000 to 1 million new jobs in five thousand new federal agencies. [4] To solve the labor crisis, the Employment Service of the Department of Labor attracted workers from the South and Midwest to war industries in the East.

  9. Department of Government Efficiency - Wikipedia

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    The lawsuit, filed [b] on January 27, 2025, in the federal district court for the District of Columbia by two federal employees against the OPM, alleges that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, responsible for various federal government personnel operations, failed to conduct a federally mandated assessment to evaluate and mitigate privacy ...