Sen. Lankford releases annual 'Federal Fumbles' waste report

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Sen. Lankford releases annual 'Federal Fumbles' waste report
By Dan Snyder Monday, November 28th 2016

OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Oklahoma Senator James Lankford is set to release his federal government waste and solutions report at a press conference Monday morning.

Last year's report titled "Federal Fumbles: 100 ways the government dropped the ball" showed $105 billion in wasteful federal spending, and about $800 billion in negative regulatory impact on the economy.

Today the Senator is expected to identify upwards of $277 billion in wasteful and inefficient spending.

Senator Lankford's office released this short video earlier this month previewing the report.

more with video at link
http://okcfox.com/news/local/sen-lankford-releases-federal-fumbles-waste-report

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In related news:

November 18, 2016    

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Robert McDonald its November 2016 Porker of the Month for giving bonuses to some of the senior executives who were involved in the continuing hospital wait-times scandal.

Despite assurances by Sec. McDonald and President Obama that the wait-times scandal was isolated to Phoenix and that the department has solved the problem, numerous VA inspector general (IG) reports over the last year have confirmed that thousands of veterans still languish in the VA’s single-payer system. They are waiting for care mainly due to the department’s abject failure to solve its corrosive culture, which led to the scandal in the first place.  Data released on June 3, 2016 found that the number of patients who have waited more than a month to see a doctor exceeded a half a million since the beginning of 2016, and no improvement was seen in any month so far this year.

In the face of this continued mismanagement, an October 28, 2016 USA Today report found that the VA had provided $177 million worth of bonuses to its nearly 189,000 employees in 2015.  Included in that total were more than 300 senior executives, some of whom were intimately involved in the ongoing wait-times scandal at the Phoenix VA hospital as well as facilities nationwide. ...

Rest of story at Citizens Against Government Waste.