Today Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released its January 2017 WasteWatcher, a monthly dispatch to members of the news media, highlighting some of the most prominent fiscal issues affecting American taxpayers. The stories from its January edition of WasteWatcher are listed in part as follows:
How
to Make the Budget Great Again
By Rachel Cole
With the
beginning of a new administration, the best and brightest in leadership
are often selected to advise the President. House Budget Committee
Chairman Tom Price, M.D. (R-Ga.), who has been nominated as the
secretary of Health and Human Services, fits that description. Before he
was nominated, Chairman Price proposed a series of critical changes to
the budget process. Read the full storyhere.
Making
Healthcare Great
By Elizabeth Wright
The repeal and
replacement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or
Obamacare, has begun. Read the full story here.
Mulvaney
Faces Uphill Battle on Defense Spending
By Sean Kennedy
Incoming
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Rep. Mick Mulvaney
(R-S.C.) will be tasked with developing plans to cut trillions of
dollars in spending, based on the ideas being floated by the Trump
transition team. While there are always challenges to implement such
proposals, mostly from members of Congress, any suggestions to cut
defense spending will face a particularly tough fight. Read the full
story here.
Modernizing
Federal Information Technology
By Deborah Collier
President
Trump has made it clear that he wants to make significant changes in how
government programs are managed. One of the best sources of the worst
examples of wasteful spending for the president and his team is the
Government Accountability Office High Risk List. Read the full story here.
Can
President Trump Finally End the VA Scandal?
By Curtis Kalin
As
the nation prepares for the transfer of power from the Obama
administration to the Trump administration, the issue of veteran
healthcare and the insidious and continuing wait-times scandal remains a
critical area of concern. Read the full story here.
115th
Congress: A New Sheriff (with a Powerful Posse) Has Arrived
By
William M. Christian
For the first time since Democrats turned the
Speaker’s gavel over to the Republicans in January 2011, the
Pennsylvania Avenue axis of power will be under the control of a single
party. Read the full story here.
CAGW is the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.
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