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Nonpartisan congressional agency that audits federal programs and spending, reporting on waste, fraud, and government performance.
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The GAO values unpaid household work at up to $6 trillion a year, a fifth of GDP. The BEA series that counts it grew 6.1% a year from 1965 through 2020, against 6.3% for headline GDP, and that gap compounds to about 11%.
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An 18,445-case cyclospora outbreak was the summer's loudest number, but the one that matters to anyone buying imported produce is 214: FDA foreign food inspections in two quarters, against 805 in all of fiscal 2024.
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A STAT opinion piece sets NIH's 13% award rate beside Medicaid's shift to twice-yearly renewals to argue both losses will arrive through documentation, though only the Medicaid half comes with a measured denominator.
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GAO says the IRS cleared about 98 percent of 177 million returns while the agency told those same auditors that staffing losses slowed the rest. Two Ohio CPAs are five months into that remainder, $8,000 outstanding.
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That is roughly 28% of a year's defense budget and about $407,000 of deferred work per building, and none of it becomes revenue for a repair contractor until someone appropriates against it.
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House Democrats want the watchdog to measure what the loss of nearly 1,000 CISA staff did to the mission. The fiscal 2027 request would remove about 900 more, and GAO has not yet agreed to take the job.
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The August 18 announcement names no price, no structure and no closing date. For teams already wired into Truv or Truework APIs, that silence is the integration risk.
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