{"id":1826179,"date":"2023-01-27T11:35:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826179"},"modified":"2023-01-27T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:38:27","slug":"the-federal-government-doesnt-know-how-many-programs-they-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-federal-government-doesnt-know-how-many-programs-they-run\/","title":{"rendered":"The Federal Government Doesn&#8217;t Know How Many Programs They Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-federal-government-doesnt-know-how-many-programs-they-run%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826179&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023.01.26-02.53-thepoliticalinsider-63d294030ed77.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><em>By Brett Rowland (The Center Square).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The federal government spends trillions of dollars a year on programs, but it doesn\u2019t have an inventory of all federal programs despite a 2011 law that says they must be tracked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem is government agencies don\u2019t agree on what constitutes a federal program, according to a new U.S. Government Accountability Office report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/new-earmarks-in-omnibus-spending-bill-cost-16-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Earmarks in Omnibus Spending Bill Cost $16 Billion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis lack of a common definition \u2013 or at least a way to collect and present comparable information for programs that are defined differently \u2013 has hindered past efforts to develop an inventory,\u201d According to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-23-106272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/app\/details\/PLAW-111publ352\/related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011 law<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0The Office of Management and Budget is required to maintain an inventory of all federal programs on a publicly accessible website.<\/p>\n<p>According to the GAO report, having financial and inventory information about federal programs would allow for the identification of fragmentation, overlap, and duplication, as well as a better understanding how the government works.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve recommendations were made by the GAO to the Office of Management and Budget since 2014. \u201ceffectively plan for and create a program inventory that provides complete, comparable and useful information.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Register to Receive the Latest<\/strong> Get political news, insights, and commentary directly to your inbox<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/cbo-projects-social-security-funds-to-be-exhausted-by-2033-without-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBO Projects Social Security Funds to be Exhausted by 2033 Without Changes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In November 2021, the Office of Management and Budget published a plan for program inventory implementation. According to the report, this plan includes a number of pilot programs and will be fully implemented by 2025 as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the size and scope of the federal government, developing a complete inventory of federal programs is a complex undertaking,\u201d The report states that<\/p>\n<p>In fiscal year 2022, the federal government spent $6.27 trillion and collected $4.90 trillion in revenue, resulting in\u00a0$1.38 trillion\u00a0deficit, according to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fiscaldata.treasury.gov\/americas-finance-guide\/national-deficit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Treasury.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Syndicated with permission of The Center Square<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brett Rowland (The Center Square). The federal government spends trillions of dollars a year on programs, but it doesn\u2019t have an inventory of all federal programs despite a 2011 law that says they must be tracked.\u00a0 Part of the problem is government agencies don\u2019t agree on what constitutes a federal program, according to a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1826182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[7118,3974,5045,9734],"class_list":["post-1826179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-doesnt","tag-federal","tag-government","tag-programs"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}