Director of Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Russell Watt said on Wednesday that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) should not be present.
“We are not a big fan of Gao. They are a semi-semi-semi-independent entity and something that should not be present,” according to many, addressing the people present at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington. news Shops,
The administration of President Trump and some Republican have long sung accused, making the office biased in 1921.
Gao says that it provides the leaders of Congress, executive agencies and American people “timely, fact-based, non-Muslim information, which can be used to improve the government and save billions of dollars of taxpayers.”
Says Gao, “Our work is done at the request of Congress committees or subcommitting or according to our Congress protocol, it is legally necessary by public laws or committee reports.” Website,
The Congress’ guard has published a report this year that the administration works are illegal, including which In early AugustIn which it was found that the White House broke the law when it directed the National Institute of Health to cancel hundreds of research grants.
The Gao is led by a Comptroller General, appointed by the President and can be removed by the Congress.
Jean Dodaro is the current head of GAO, serving in the role since the end of 2010. The conditions are limited to 15 years.
Dodaro said that “Russell Wout does not give importance to transparency and accountability.”
Dodaro said in a statement to Politico and Ex -Axios, “The mission of Gao is to support the Congress in fulfilling its constitutional responsibilities. Alone as Comptroller General during my tenure, Gao has saved taxpayers more than $ 1.2 trillion and resulting in how federal programs work.”
