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Government Corruption
House Oversight Chair Worries Resistance Will Sink Efforts to Cut Spending
2025-01-30
[Epoch Times] Federal departments and agencies have not 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.).

Comer said that for longtime House members "whose first priority is not the American taxpayers, but self-preservation, it’s best to not say anything. They want to go along to get along, they’re not willing to rock the boat".

That reality was compounded during the four years of former President Joe Biden’s tenure in the Oval Office, Comer said, because waste, fraud, and abuse "didn’t seem... to be any concern in the Biden administration."

Biden left office with 15 IG vacancies, including in the Department of the Treasury, which has been vacant for more than five years. Comer also noted there were no HOAC spending oversight hearings during the 117th Congress because the Democrat majority’s focus was entirely on Trump.
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Posted by:Bobby

#2  Federal workers can harass Congress critters at their DC homes, but if the Feds had sway in a home district no Republican would be elected there in the beginning.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-01-30 18:52  

#1  Someone needs to read the riot act to the civil service population - they do not run the country. Go ahead and make it a choice - a republic without civil service or a civil service without a republic.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2025-01-30 13:14  

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