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GAO tells House subcommittee Congress needs program inventory, clearer roles to cut duplication
Summary
Acting Comptroller Orice Williams Brown told the subcommittee Congress needs a comprehensive federal program inventory, better program‑effectiveness data and clearer delineation of agency roles to reduce duplication, overlap and fragmentation and help realize additional savings.
Acting Comptroller Orice Williams Brown told the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency that Congress needs three specific tools to address duplication across federal programs: a comprehensive federal program inventory, reliable information on program effectiveness and clear delineations of agency roles and authorities.
Brown gave the subcommittee an overview of GAO’s annual work on duplication, overlap and fragmentation and said GAO’s recommendations have…
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