Fiscal conservatives who speak about waste in government are often rebuffed by progressives who claim government has been, as they like to put it, “cut to the bone.”
Wrong.
Just ask the GAO. From USA Today:
Thirteen agencies fund 209 different science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education programs — and 173 of those programs overlap with at least one other program.
And the government has at least 15 major financial literacy programs — including three new ones established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform andConsumer Protection Act.
A report delivered to Congress Tuesday lays out those examples among 32 areas where multiple government programs do similar work. The Government Accountability Office says the government might save tens of billions of dollars simply by eliminating duplicate and overlapping federal programs.
You can listen to the GAO podcast on the report here.
