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email Watchdog Suggests 112 New Actions to Enhance Government Savings and Efficiency
Taxpayer services, prison staffing and infectious disease modeling are some of the areas the Government Accountability Office listed as ripe for reforms.
The federal government could save billions of dollars by transforming such disparate functions as taxpayer services, prison staffing and infectious disease modeling, according to a watchdog report.
The Government Accountability Office in its eleventh annual report on “New Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions in Financial Benefits” recommended 112 new actions in 29 new areas.
The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline, which has disrupted the flow of gasoline and other petroleum products throughout the eastern U.S. since Friday, is
Joni Ernst, (R-IA)
United States Senator Soldiers on A Company, 29th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division conduct squad live fire exercise training lanes on March 30, 2021. Staff Sgt. Alan Brutus / U.S. Army
Key Takeaways
A frozen defense budget will not satisfy the needs for the military to counter threats ranging from an emboldened China, a revanchist Russia, and bad actors.
Fixing current readiness is only part of the problem. The military finds itself too limited and old to deal with all the threats over the horizon.
Congress and the president must set our warfighters for success with sufficient funding for the Defense Department. A flat budget could not achieve that.