Tracking the Funds: Specific Fiscal Year 2022 Provisions for Department of...
What GAO Found The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 appropriated $247.5 million to the Department of Commerce for 107 projects at the request of Members of Congress. The act includes specific...
View ArticleTactical Aircraft Investments: DOD Needs Additional Portfolio Analysis to...
What GAO Found Tactical aircraft—fixed-wing fighter and attack planes—provide air-to-air, air-to-ground, and electronic warfare capabilities that are vital to combat operations and homeland defense....
View ArticleFederal Programs: Approaches to Help Create a Useful Inventory
The Big Picture The federal government spends trillions of dollars on federal programs that support the American people and address policy goals. However, it does not have an inventory of these...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Relief: Funding and Spending as of Jan. 31, 2023
The federal government has provided about $4.6 trillion to help the nation respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Tracking federal spending is complex—especially at this unprecedented...
View ArticleFiscal Year 2024 Budget Request: U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAO continued to demonstrate its value in fiscal year (FY) 2022. GAO’s work yielded $55.6 billion in financial benefits, a return of about $74 for every dollar invested in GAO. Over the past five...
View ArticleManagement Report: Continued Improvements Needed in the Bureau of the Fiscal...
What GAO Found During its audit of the fiscal year 2022 and 2021 Schedules of Federal Debt managed by the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service, GAO determined that Fiscal Service...
View ArticleFiscal Year 2024 Budget Request: U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAO continued to demonstrate its value in fiscal year (FY) 2022. GAO’s work yielded $55.6 billion in financial benefits, a return of about $74 for every dollar invested in GAO. Over the past five...
View ArticleOversight of Agency Spending: Implementing GAO Recommendations Could Help...
What GAO Found Congress and the administration have provided billions in funding to the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through...
View ArticleFederal Spending: Information on U.S. Funding to Entities Located in China
What GAO Found U.S. agencies reported providing at least $48 million in obligations for various purposes to entities located in China from fiscal years 2017 through 2021. Of this amount, agencies...
View ArticleGrants Management: Observations on Challenges with Access, Use, and Oversight
What GAO Found GAO has identified challenges on federal grants management in its work spanning several decades, including in the following areas: Capacity. A lack of capacity for grant recipients can...
View ArticleThe Nation's Fiscal Health: Road Map Needed to Address Projected...
What GAO Found The federal government faces an unsustainable long-term fiscal future. At the end of fiscal year 2022, debt held by the public was about 97 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)....
View ArticleGrants Management: Actions Needed to Improve Agency Reporting of Expired Grants
What GAO Found Federal agencies that award grants must close out the grants—ensuring that all applicable administrative actions and all required work of the grant have been completed—within an allotted...
View ArticlePriority Open Recommendations: Office of Management and Budget
What GAO Found In July 2022, GAO identified 44 priority recommendations for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Since then, OMB has implemented 1 of those recommendations by issuing a Controller...
View ArticleThe Nation's Fiscal Health: Action Needed to Address Projected Unsustainable...
What GAO Found The federal government faces an unsustainable long-term fiscal future. At the end of fiscal year 2022, debt held by the public was about 97 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Debt...
View ArticleU.S. Territories: Public Debt Outlook - 2023 Update
What GAO Found GAO identified the most significant factors—which vary by territory—affecting each territory's future capacity for economic growth and debt repayment. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico: Puerto...
View ArticleFederal Budget: Government-Wide Inventory of Accounts with Mandatory...
What GAO Found Mandatory spending refers to budget authority that is typically provided in laws other than appropriation acts. Mandatory budget authority grew from $1.9 trillion in fiscal year 2001 to...
View ArticleFiscal Year 2024 Performance Plan
This report presents the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) Performance Plan for Fiscal Year 2024. In the spirit of the Government Performance and Results Act, this annual plan informs the...
View ArticleSpace Launch System: Cost Transparency Needed to Monitor Program Affordability
What GAO Found The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) does not plan to measure production costs to monitor the affordability of its most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System...
View ArticleDOD Service Contracts: Actions Needed to Identify Efficiencies and Forecast...
What GAO Found Services performed by contractors, such as administrative and technical support, account for about half of the Department of Defense's (DOD) contract obligations. Obligations on...
View ArticleWhite House Spending: FY 2022 Certificated Expenditures of the President and...
What GAO Found GAO found that the certificated (officially documented) expenditures by the President and Vice President of the United States for fiscal year 2022 were spent for the purposes authorized...
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