Tag: Government Accountability Office

Waste, fraud, abuse...budget cutters of old used these three words to describe the federal government’s poor stewardship of taxpayer dollars. Such charges were frequently...

Can the federal government pass an audit? The standing answer has been “no.” And part of that is because Uncle Sam can’t produce financial...

The Government Accountability Office has released a new report saying what ought to be obvious to everyone in official Washington: there is an immediate...

With the federal government continuing to pile up enormous annual deficits, the incentives to reduce spending—any spending – get even more urgent. And as most...

That fraudsters managed to make away with billions of dollars of COVID-19 relief money is no secret.  What is not fully known, however, is...

At the Biden administration’s urging, Congress promised to give the IRS an additional $80 billion over the next decade to fix its many, manifest...

One of the realities of post-COVID life is that the long accepted pattern of workers commuting to offices five days a week is broken....

Talk about good timing. With Congress at work on the next federal budget, and some members looking for new ways to cut spending, the...

Few people know it, but the federal government has something called a “general fund,” based in the Treasury Department, that is supposed to keep...

Remember the headlines from a few months ago? The IRS is getting an additional $80 billion over the next decade. Half of it is...