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Proposed Trump Changes to Government Accountability Have the Swamp Reeling

The president’s critics are once again melting down at moves from the Trump administration in what they firmly believe are the last days of the controversial head of state’s term.

According to e-mails obtained by The Hill, the administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is considering changes to the current budgeting process under which agencies must spell out their policy goals and show progress in achieving them.

OMB reportedly plans to craft a memo in the coming weeks to overhaul how agencies handle strategic planning and making progress toward their goals in order to qualify for congressional funding.

One source was perplexed at what they considered an unorthodox step, arguing that the existing mechanisms “are in place to really make government, ideally, more efficient.”

“It is co-opting the prerogative of the Biden administration to mold its own budget process,” complained Robert Shea, associate director at OMB during the George W. Bush administration who is now a principal at consulting firm Grant Thornton LLP.

“It’s a weird time to do it,” he added.

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4 thoughts on “Proposed Trump Changes to Government Accountability Have the Swamp Reeling”

  1. Biden’s budget process would be the “same as it ever was”, no-progress-needed sludge that goos up the works as it’s been done for too long, expecting no accountability from recipients of our tax dollars. Change is long overdue.

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