> Looks like their job is to only make recommendations on spending and nothing more. The new department will do exactly the same. Congress controls spending, s

> Looks like their job is to only make recommendations on spending and nothing more. The new department will do exactly the same. Congress controls spending, so recommendations are all any executive department can do. If GAO should be able to find more inefficiencies, or should be given the power to cut stuff on its own (it shouldn’t), then the focus ought to be on making them do that. Adding a whole new redundant department seems…inefficient.