On Tuesday, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa held a hearing on the second annual report to Congress from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on duplicative and overlapping government programs. It lists specific areas across federal agencies that should be consolidated or eliminated, saving tens of billions.
For example, there are 14 grant and loan programs at the Environmental Protection Agency, Transportation Department and Energy Department all for the purpose of reducing diesel emissions. There are 94 different programs to promote “green building” initiatives at 11 agencies. It takes 50 programs across nine agencies to find employment for people with disabilities.
The government has seven entities training foreign officials to identify fraudulent travel documents. There are a whopping 209 science, technology, engineering and mathematics education programs at 13 different agencies that cost a total of $3 billion a year.
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