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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

New GAO Report Identifies $95 Billion in Overlapping Programs

Duplicative drug abuse and treatment services are strewn over 76 federal programs. Housing services are spread across 20 different agencies. Renewable energy projects go through 23 federal agencies and 130 sub-agencies.

Even federal catfish inspections are done by three different agencies.

These are only a few of 162 examples identified by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a congressional watchdog agency, of fragmented, duplicative federal programs and services.

The 2013 edition of the annual report originally requested by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, is being released today and it concludes that not only does such managerial dysfunction hobble the federal government, it's also extraordinarily costly.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did anyone hear the grand poo-pa say in his great budget speech anything about eliminating all these duplications? Didn't think so, after all it might take away from all the vacations and parties at the White House.

He is a worthless example of a human which is taking necessary air from the rest of us.

Unknown said...

Could not agree with you more. Well said