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GAO adds disaster assistance to 2025 high-risk list, warns of continued billions in improper payments
Summary
Comptroller General Gene Dodaro told the House Oversight Committee the Government Accountability Officeadded improving federal disaster assistance to its 2025 high-risk list and warned that long-standing problems including improper payments, legacy IT and DOD financial management continue to expose taxpayers to very large losses.
Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Feb. 27 that GAO added one new area to its 2025 high-risk list: improving the delivery of federal disaster assistance.
The update, released at the start of the 119th Congress, lists 38 high-risk areas that GAO said involve either large financial exposures (at least $1 billion) or serious risks to public health, safety or essential services. "We're adding one new area this year, and that's improving the delivery of disaster assistance," Dodaro said.
The nut graf: GAOsaid the programs on the list together present recurring risks that require congressional attention, executive action and sustained management. Dodaro told lawmakers that acting on GAO…
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