Why Federal Agencies Don’t Have to Listen to the Government Accountability Office

The Daily Signal ^ | December 22, 2015 | Mollie Mc Neill

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According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), it has saved taxpayers from over $74 billion of would-be government waste since 2003. Federal watchdogs, like the GAO and the federal council of inspectors general, investigate wasteful spending and give suggestions to government agencies about how to eliminate it. Here's the catch, federal agencies don't have to listen them.

To address this issue, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management held a hearing to explore why government agencies rarely heed cost-cutting recommendations from watchdogs.

[detective]

In the Obama administration government bureaucrats ignore accountability and spend whatever they want.

[sheik yerbouty]

0bama is in charge of the no account office..

[Lurker]

Because the people haven’t started dragging the bureucratic a-holes out of their offices and decorating lamp posts with them. That’s why.

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