budget. it goes two weeks so it delays just a bit. the senate, we re told, is going to vote on this tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. from sources up on capitol hill, in the meantime, the government accountability office put out a report today with interesting facts. among them government waste, 18 programs, nutrition assistance, $62.5 billion in 2008 and 11 have never been reviewed. homeland security, more efficient baggage screening systems could be $470 million in savings over five years. they found 100 duplicative programs, basically programs being done twice. threw see them and 35 other programs in highway infrastructure. gao report. charles, let s start with the gao report. i would say if you are republican, its timely report. you are in a fight over real cuts and spokesman, everyone
there are 18 food assistance programs, that cost $63 billion. $62.5 billion, 11 of them haven t been studied and that was in 2008. there are 47 job training and employment programs that cost $18 billion back in 09. and 42 of them have not been studied and a lot are duplicates and 82 programs to improve teacher quality, across 5 separate agencies, not just the department of education but even things like nasa has the programs, $4 billion in 09 and some have almost duplicate descriptions. and the report goes on to talk about the department of defense and says that were the military to tighten up the health care system could save a half billion dollars a year and the list is lon and the estimate is 100 to $200 billion, and this is only one study, and it s not up common for people to talk about waste, fraud and abuse when trying to tight in the belts of u.s. government and this is the kind of thing that will make them look at several notches at once. martha: you bet, carl and think about
weeks $4 billion from the budget. it goes two weeks so it delays just a bit. the senate, we re told, is going to vote on this tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. from sources up on capitol hill, in the meantime, the government accountability office put out a report today with interesting facts. among them government waste, 18 programs, nutrition assistance, $62.5 billion in 2008 and 11 have never been reviewed. homeland security, more efficient baggage screening systems could be $470 million in savings over five years. they found 100 duplicative programs, basically programs being done twice. threw see them and 35 other programs in highway infrastructure. gao report. charles, let s start with the gao report. i would say if you are republican, its timely report. you are in a fight over real