According to a report published by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), U.S. taxpayers could save 100’s of billions of dollars by eliminating duplicate programs and inefficiencies. According the Washington Free Beacon, the GAO’s April 2016 report “Additional Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Other Financial Benefits” uncovered 100 steps Congress or President Obama could take to make government run more efficiently. Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump’s vision is to eliminate this wasteful spending and reduce our debt.
The following are just 4 of the 100 steps the GAO outlined in their report:
“This report highlights how important it is for the administration to take the GAO’s remaining recommendations seriously,” said Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ron Johnson (R., Wisc.) “Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying the price for Washington’s wasteful duplication.”
Click here to read the full 298 page GAO April 2016 report.