The Huffington Post reported recently that the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for the Legislative Branch has drawn up plans to reduce the GAO budget by more than 7 percent, cutting more than $40 million even as it also proposed rules requiring the agency to do more paperwork.
And yet the GAO saved the federal government about $43 billion in 2009. In a scathing op-ed on Wednesday, Coburn noted that Congress this year has failed to act on any of the watchdog’s recommendations to save $200 billion by targeting wasteful programs.
The Oklahoma Republican suggested the budget-cutting “proposal looks like mismanagement at best and pay back at worse.”
via GAO Cuts: Tom Coburn Hammers Senate For Money-Losing Proposal.