Posted on 07/24/2018 5:34:34 PM PDT by Liberty7732
A new bipartisan Senate report revealed more than half of the government's public data on federal spending is wrong, as the website USAspending.gov is riddled with errors.
The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by chairman Rob Portman (R., Ohio) and ranking member Tom Carper (D., Del.), released a report Tuesday finding nearly every agency is failing to accurately report its spending as required by federal law.
The subcommittee reviewed over two dozen inspector general reports and determined 55 percent of the spending data submitted to USAspending.gov was inaccurate. The errors accounted for $240 billion in spending during the second quarter of 2017, according to the report.
The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014, or DATA Act, required federal spending to be easily accessible to the public through a searchable website, which became USAspending.gov. The website was revamped earlier this year, but agencies are not meeting their requirements to submit accurate, consistent, and reliable data on its spending.
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What a surprise!
Makes sense.
Half of Federal employees don't contribute squat.
The US government could f*** up a wet dream.
How did Trump do this in only eighteen months? /s
At least, maybe even more. Will that change anything? Doubtful.
The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014, or DATA Act, required federal spending to be easily accessible to the public through a searchable website,
"Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time [emphasis added]."
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Noting that the Founding States had established the Senate partly to kill all bills that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, it’s ironic that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate is reporting that Congress cannot be trusted to perform its constitutional duty to honestly publicly report how state revenues that it is helping the House to steal by means of unconstitutional federal taxes are being spent.
The remedy …
Patriots need to finish the job that they started when they elected Trump president by replacing as much of Congress as they can in the 2018 midterm elections with new, state sovereignty-respecting patriot lawmakers that will support Trump’s vision for MAGA.
The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 was meaningless legislation passed into law that nobody in government is much concerned about.
In other words the budget deficit is a lot larger than we thought.
It’s been decades since Abel Abelson of Barron’s said anyone relying on government numbers to make financial decisions was crazy. Apparently, nothing has changed.
You'll defend anything he does won't you!!!!!
/s ":^)
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