Government Watchdogs Under-Equipped to Oversee Spending of Billions in Taxpayer Money

Massive spending bills authorized by Congress over the last two years have poured billions of dollars through federal agencies into state coffers, threatening to overwhelm the government inspectors charged with preventing fraud, waste, and abuse in the use of taxpayer money.
Inspectors general from three federal agencies and a director from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) told Congress that their offices are not fully equipped to oversee the huge increase in spending authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), CHIPS Act, and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation on March 29….}