New rules from the Office of Management and Budget will change how the federal government weighs costs, enabling new efforts on climate change and poverty.
The vice president plans to flesh out a sweeping executive order President Biden signed this week and push toward global standards at a summit in London.
If Donald Trump wins a second term, he and his allies want to revive a plan to allow a president to fire civil service workers who are supposed to be hired on merit. The Biden administration is trying to thwart it.