Russell Vought says Government Accountability Office 'shouldn't exist' [View all]

(The Hill) The director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, said Wednesday that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) should not exist.

“We’re not big fans of GAO. They are a quasi-legislative independent entity and something that shouldn’t exist,” Vought said while addressing attendees at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C., as multiple news outlets reported.

President Trump’s administration and some Republicans have long accused the GAO, which was created in 1921, of partisanship.

The GAO says it provides Congress, the leaders of executive agencies and the American public with “timely, fact-based, non-partisan information that can be used to improve government and save taxpayers billions of dollars.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/russ-vought-says-government-accountability-024659869.html