Federal departments and agencies haven’t addressed 13,808 cost-saving anti-waste and fraud recommendations from Inspectors-General (IGs), some more than five years old, and nearly 300 more related Government Accountability Office (GAO) ideas, according to government data.
Federal workers’ resistance to reform—plus congressional fears of complaints by civil service workers back home in their states or districts—are two main obstacles to achieving President Donald Trump’s plans to reduce the size and costs of the federal government, according to House Oversight and Accountability Committee (HOAC) Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).
There are 74 IGs who, under the Inspectors General Act of 1978, are appointed by the president but answer to Congress....
