2020 has revealed the strange paradoxes of our time. We can develop a vaccine for a global pandemic in less than a year, but one little hiccup in the supply chain, and it’s easier to find water in the Sahara than to find toilet paper at Safeway.
This year has also provided ample time for self-reflection: What are we getting wrong, and how can we excel at what we are doing well? Successful people ask themselves that question routinely. Shouldn’t our government ask itself the same thing?
The federal budget in 2019, the last non-pandemic fiscal year, was $4.4 trillion. Putting that in perspective, just 1 trillion $1 bills
Defense Policy Bill Includes Bipartisan Provision for Greater Transparency on Federal Spending
The bill will create a central inventory of spending information, which good government groups say is overdue.
The annual defense policy bill, approved last week, included a bipartisan provision that will require federal agencies to be more transparent about the performance and costs of their programs.
The House and Senate both passed the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act last week with veto-proof majorities. The $740 billion bill includes “The Taxpayers Right to Know Act,” which was introduced last year in both chambers. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee reported it favorably in July 2019 and the House passed it in February (after passing previous versions.)