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OpenAI Unlocks Cybersecurity Model for Europe
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#Europe #EU #Anti-moneylaundering #authentication #bankinformationsecurity #bankinformationsecurityregulations #bankregulations #bankinginformationsecurity #fdic #fincen #gao #glba #identitytheft #informationsecurity #informationsecurityarticles #informationsecurityevents #informationsecuritynews #informationsecuritywebinars #informationsecuritywhitepapers #Phishing #riskmanagement #sarbanesoxley(sox)
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Will accountability finally arrive for the Epstein files? Justin Papp reports the GAO will investigate the DOJ's handling of Epstein documents, at Congress' request. Sen. Jeff Merkley alleges the Trump administration sided with the rich and powerful by heavily redacting names. This probe aims for transparency. Learn more about this crucial investigation.
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#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026
Five highlights from this week: How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors; They See Your #photos Agencies fall short on documenting AI acquisition best practices, #GAO says; US Government Fails to Unmask #Reddit User: #Privacy Legal Battle; and A new cybercrime platform called #ATHR can harvest credentials via fully automated voice #phishing attacks that use both human operators and AI agents for the social engineering phase.
Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media
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#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026
Five highlights from this week: How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors; They See Your #photos Agencies fall short on documenting AI acquisition best practices, #GAO says; US Government Fails to Unmask #Reddit User: #Privacy Legal Battle; and A new cybercrime platform called #ATHR can harvest credentials via fully automated voice #phishing attacks that use both human operators and AI agents for the social engineering phase.
Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media
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#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026
Five highlights from this week: How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors; They See Your #photos Agencies fall short on documenting AI acquisition best practices, #GAO says; US Government Fails to Unmask #Reddit User: #Privacy Legal Battle; and A new cybercrime platform called #ATHR can harvest credentials via fully automated voice #phishing attacks that use both human operators and AI agents for the social engineering phase.
Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media
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#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026
Five highlights from this week: How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors; They See Your #photos Agencies fall short on documenting AI acquisition best practices, #GAO says; US Government Fails to Unmask #Reddit User: #Privacy Legal Battle; and A new cybercrime platform called #ATHR can harvest credentials via fully automated voice #phishing attacks that use both human operators and AI agents for the social engineering phase.
Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media
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#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026
Five highlights from this week: How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors; They See Your #photos Agencies fall short on documenting AI acquisition best practices, #GAO says; US Government Fails to Unmask #Reddit User: #Privacy Legal Battle; and A new cybercrime platform called #ATHR can harvest credentials via fully automated voice #phishing attacks that use both human operators and AI agents for the social engineering phase.
Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media
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The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and the full weight of the institution is being brought to bear. The audience in the theater knows the official is lying or incompetent or both. The audience at home, watching the real version of the same press conference after the real hurricane or the real chemical spill, has no such certainty. They take the performance at face value. They go to bed believing the plan exists.
This is the rehearsal state: a condition of governance in which the appearance of institutional action has entirely replaced institutional action itself. Briefings substitute for deployments. Executive orders substitute for enforcement mechanisms. A task force substitutes for the task. What remains is an empty dramatic structure, all exposition and no second act, staged with professional lighting and delivered with the practiced cadence of competence.
The theatrical vocabulary is precise here and worth using. In dramatic structure, the second act is where conflict meets consequence. Characters act. Decisions produce outcomes. The machinery of the plot engages with material reality. A play that consists of nothing but first-act exposition, characters explaining what they intend to do, followed by a curtain call would be recognized instantly as a failure of craft. No audience would accept it. Yet this is the structural blueprint of contemporary American governance at nearly every level, and audiences accept it every day.
Consider FEMA’s operations following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017. The press briefings were immaculate. Officials appeared before cameras with updated death tolls, logistical summaries, and assurances of coordination with local authorities. A Government Accountability Office report published in 2018 found that FEMA had entered the disaster with a shortage of trained staff, inadequate supply contracts, and no workable distribution plan for an island territory. Some of those failures were structural and predated any individual decision to perform competence at a podium. That distinction matters, and it sharpens the argument: the briefing apparatus and the logistics apparatus operated on separate circuits, and only the briefing circuit ever worked. Briefings ran on schedule. Water did not arrive on schedule. Generators sat in mainland warehouses. An estimated 2,975 people died, many of them in the weeks and months after the storm, from causes that functioning logistics would have prevented. The performance of response was flawless. The response killed people.
Corporate governance replicates the same structure with its own scenography. Beginning around 2020, virtually every Fortune 500 company published a diversity, equity, and inclusion report. The reports featured full-color graphics, letters from the CEO, and quantified commitments. A 2023 analysis by the Washington Post examining SEC filings and internal workforce data found that, at most of the companies studied, the demographic composition of senior leadership had changed by less than two percentage points in three years. The reports were playbills. They described the production without performing it.
Municipal government may be the purest laboratory for studying the rehearsal state because the stage is small enough to see clearly. Any resident of a mid-size American city has attended, or heard accounts of, the community input session. A standardized format governs the proceedings: a gymnasium or auditorium, a panel table at the front, a sign-in sheet, a microphone on a stand for public comments, and a two-minute time limit per speaker. In most cases, the decision this session purports to inform, the zoning variance, the school closure, the budget reallocation, has already been made. Council members or planning commissioners will vote along predetermined lines regardless of what is said at the microphone. What the session provides is the documentation of input, a procedural receipt with no bearing on the outcome. It is a prop in a legal performance designed to satisfy procedural requirements for public participation. The residents who attend and speak and even weep at the microphone are extras in a production whose cast list was finalized before the doors opened.
The dramaturgical term for what these institutions are doing is blocking. In theater, blocking is the choreographed physical movement of actors on stage: where they stand, when they cross, how they position themselves relative to the furniture and to each other. Blocking creates the visual impression of action. A character who crosses downstage with urgency appears to be doing something even if the script gives them nothing to do. American institutional governance has become expert at blocking. Officials move to podiums. They sign documents in front of cameras and tour damaged neighborhoods in windbreakers. Between appearances, they sit at long tables with nameplates. Every movement is choreographed to produce the visual grammar of response, oversight, and authority. The blocking is superb, and it has to be, because there is no script beneath it.
This condition did not arrive overnight. Its roots are tangled with the professionalization of political communication that accelerated after Watergate, when officials learned that the appearance of transparency could substitute for transparency itself. The post-Watergate press conference, with its tabletop microphones and tabulated talking points, was designed as an antidote to secrecy. Within a decade it had become its own species of secrecy, a controlled performance environment in which information was released in calibrated doses, questions were managed through selection and repetition, and the physical staging of openness, the open room, the visible faces, the recorded transcript, masked the operational closure beneath it.
Bad governance is only the surface consequence of the rehearsal state. The deeper damage is a population rendered unable to distinguish governance from its simulation. When citizens have spent decades watching the same dramaturgical structure, the podium, the talking points, the earnest facial expression, the promise of follow-through, they lose the ability to ask whether anything happened after the cameras left. Performance becomes self-ratifying. An official held a press conference, so the public concludes the problem was addressed. A company published a report, so change must have occurred. A meeting was held, so the community was consulted.
This erosion of critical spectatorship is the precondition for something worse. Populations trained to accept the performance of governance as governance itself are structurally prepared to accept authoritarian spectacle as competence. A rally replaces the legislature. Signing ceremonies, staged with flags and witnesses and the slow exhibition of the signature itself, replace the statute. An appearance at the disaster site, the rolled sleeves, the handshake with the first responder, the squint into the middle distance, replaces the relief operation. Authoritarianism does not need to abolish democratic institutions if it can hollow them into stages. The rehearsal state is the advance work.
What would it mean to demand a second act? It would mean treating every institutional announcement as a first-act curtain, an interesting premise that requires development before it can be evaluated. After every press conference, citizens would need to ask what measurable outcome was promised within a defined timeframe. Corporate reports would be treated as promissory notes and audited with the same scrutiny applied to financial statements. And anyone walking into a community input session would carry a single question: has this body ever reversed a decision based on public comment, and if so, when?
The rehearsal state persists because it is comfortable for everyone involved. Officials prefer it because performance is easier than policy. Citizens go along because watching a performance requires less effort than monitoring an outcome. And the press cooperates because a press conference is a story, while the absence of follow-through is a silence that nobody assigns a reporter to cover. Breaking the rehearsal state requires an audience willing to sit through the first act and then refuse to applaud until the second act is performed. That is harder than clapping. It is also the minimum price of self-governance.
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"The Court’s unwillingness to enforce various constitutional limitations on presidential power has been defended by arguing that Congress may defund actions of which it disapproves. If the President may appropriate funds for whatever actions he desires without regard to statutory limits, that fallback constraint no longer exists."
#Trump #Budget #Shutdown #dhs #ICE #tsa #cbp #Congress #SupremeCourt #gao #OMB
Presidential Appropriations https://balkin.blogspot.com/2026/04/presidential-appropriations.html
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"The Court’s unwillingness to enforce various constitutional limitations on presidential power has been defended by arguing that Congress may defund actions of which it disapproves. If the President may appropriate funds for whatever actions he desires without regard to statutory limits, that fallback constraint no longer exists."
#Trump #Budget #Shutdown #dhs #ICE #tsa #cbp #Congress #SupremeCourt #gao #OMB
Presidential Appropriations https://balkin.blogspot.com/2026/04/presidential-appropriations.html
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"The Court’s unwillingness to enforce various constitutional limitations on presidential power has been defended by arguing that Congress may defund actions of which it disapproves. If the President may appropriate funds for whatever actions he desires without regard to statutory limits, that fallback constraint no longer exists."
#Trump #Budget #Shutdown #dhs #ICE #tsa #cbp #Congress #SupremeCourt #gao #OMB
Presidential Appropriations https://balkin.blogspot.com/2026/04/presidential-appropriations.html
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"The Court’s unwillingness to enforce various constitutional limitations on presidential power has been defended by arguing that Congress may defund actions of which it disapproves. If the President may appropriate funds for whatever actions he desires without regard to statutory limits, that fallback constraint no longer exists."
#Trump #Budget #Shutdown #dhs #ICE #tsa #cbp #Congress #SupremeCourt #gao #OMB
Presidential Appropriations https://balkin.blogspot.com/2026/04/presidential-appropriations.html
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"The Court’s unwillingness to enforce various constitutional limitations on presidential power has been defended by arguing that Congress may defund actions of which it disapproves. If the President may appropriate funds for whatever actions he desires without regard to statutory limits, that fallback constraint no longer exists."
#Trump #Budget #Shutdown #dhs #ICE #tsa #cbp #Congress #SupremeCourt #gao #OMB
Presidential Appropriations https://balkin.blogspot.com/2026/04/presidential-appropriations.html
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#JusttheNews:
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GAO says DOE unable to 'fully analyze' why cost increases, delays occur with nuclear waste cleanup
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".. incomplete documentation and inconsistent cost information are making it harder for officials to oversee some of the federal government’s largest nuclear waste cleanup efforts, even as the projected price tag for the work exceeds half a trillion dollars."12.3.2026
#Atomkraft #Atommüll #DOE #GAO #Kernenergie #NuclearCleanup #NuclearWaste #USA
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Gaokun is wondering whether this cross-poster works... #Gao~
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V-22 Ospreys have serious unresolved safety risks, NAVAIR review confirms
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"Many of the VA’s open priority recommendations are related to the department’s attempts to replace its legacy health records system. It rolled out a new electronic health records system starting with five medical centers in 2023 and was “making incremental improvements” to the new system as of March 2025, according to GAO, but there was still a lot to be done. There are approximately 170 VA Medical Centers."
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_53a39d0c-ec25-4ec6-8d5b-1087acd0e875.amp.html
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GAO, Library of Congress avoid cuts in Legislative Branch bill – Roll Call
An Architect of the Capitol worker picks up trash on the Capitol steps on May 22. (Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call)GAO, Library of Congress avoid cuts in Legislative Branch bill
Both agencies faced steep cuts in an earlier House version
By Justin Papp, Posted November 10, 2025 at 6:11am
Senate appropriators Sunday unveiled a roughly $7.3 billion draft fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch appropriations bill, part of a three-bill package that could be paired with a stopgap spending measure in a bid to reopen the government.
The bill would maintain funding for both the Government Accountability Office and the Library of Congress, two legislative branch agencies that faced steep cuts in an earlier House version of the proposal.
It would also boost Capitol Police funding to $852.4 million for fiscal 2026, an increase of roughly $46 million over the current fiscal year, as concerns over member security remain elevated. The proposal would be a more than 7 percent increase in total legislative branch funding over the current fiscal year
Not included is language barring the GAO from suing for the release of “impounded” funds without congressional approval, a sticking point in negotiations to advance the package of bills that includes the Military Construction-VA and Agriculture spending proposals.
The language restricting GAO’s authorities appeared in the version that advanced out of the House Appropriations Committee in June, as Republicans were ramping up attacks against the nonpartisan watchdog, which had found that the Trump White House illegally barred the release of appropriated funds.
The proposed restriction on the GAO language was paired with a nearly 50 percent proposed cut to the GAO’s budget that Democrats viewed as an attack on the legislative branch agency.
“It is astonishing that for all the talk about finding and rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse, that House Republicans would defund the watchdog that is tasked with precisely that role,” said House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., at the time.
A Senate version of the bill that advanced out of committee in July and passed on the floor in August would reinstate the GAO’s funding, keeping it flat at $811.9 million for fiscal 2026. But the language over the GAO’s ability to sue the executive branch over “impoundment” — the withholding of appropriated funds from being obligated for purposes intended by Congress — continued to be debated late into this week.
Presidents can cancel funds with congressional approval, as the Trump administration did earlier this year with a $9 billion package to rescind funds for foreign aid and public broadcasting, but the 1974 Congressional Budget Act prohibits the executive branch from doing so unilaterally.
But the Trump administration has also found ways to circumvent the rules in other instances, including with temporary “holds” on targeted accounts. Democrats and some GOP appropriators have pushed back on such maneuvers, arguing it undermines Congress’ “power of the purse” as laid out in the Constitution.
The comptroller general, who leads the GAO, can sue in federal court under the 1974 law for the release of appropriations that have been illegally impounded.
Security boost, Library of Congress remains flat
In addition to the overall increase to the Capitol Police budget, Republican and Democratic appropriators touted $203.5 million in funding dedicated to enhancing security.
Threats against members and staff have been elevated since the first Trump administration, according to Capitol Police figures. But the assassination of Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman in June and of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk in September have raised concerns across Capitol Hill.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: GAO, Library of Congress avoid cuts in Legislative Branch bill – Roll Call
#Appropriations #CapitolPoliceBudget #EnhancingSecurity #FederalGovernmentShutdown #GAO #GovernmentAccountingOffice #LegislativeBranch #LibraryOfCongress #ReopenGovernment #RollCall #ThreeBillPackage
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GAO, Library of Congress avoid cuts in Legislative Branch bill – Roll Call
An Architect of the Capitol worker picks up trash on the Capitol steps on May 22. (Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call)GAO, Library of Congress avoid cuts in Legislative Branch bill
Both agencies faced steep cuts in an earlier House version
By Justin Papp, Posted November 10, 2025 at 6:11am
Senate appropriators Sunday unveiled a roughly $7.3 billion draft fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch appropriations bill, part of a three-bill package that could be paired with a stopgap spending measure in a bid to reopen the government.
The bill would maintain funding for both the Government Accountability Office and the Library of Congress, two legislative branch agencies that faced steep cuts in an earlier House version of the proposal.
It would also boost Capitol Police funding to $852.4 million for fiscal 2026, an increase of roughly $46 million over the current fiscal year, as concerns over member security remain elevated. The proposal would be a more than 7 percent increase in total legislative branch funding over the current fiscal year
Not included is language barring the GAO from suing for the release of “impounded” funds without congressional approval, a sticking point in negotiations to advance the package of bills that includes the Military Construction-VA and Agriculture spending proposals.
The language restricting GAO’s authorities appeared in the version that advanced out of the House Appropriations Committee in June, as Republicans were ramping up attacks against the nonpartisan watchdog, which had found that the Trump White House illegally barred the release of appropriated funds.
The proposed restriction on the GAO language was paired with a nearly 50 percent proposed cut to the GAO’s budget that Democrats viewed as an attack on the legislative branch agency.
“It is astonishing that for all the talk about finding and rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse, that House Republicans would defund the watchdog that is tasked with precisely that role,” said House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., at the time.
A Senate version of the bill that advanced out of committee in July and passed on the floor in August would reinstate the GAO’s funding, keeping it flat at $811.9 million for fiscal 2026. But the language over the GAO’s ability to sue the executive branch over “impoundment” — the withholding of appropriated funds from being obligated for purposes intended by Congress — continued to be debated late into this week.
Presidents can cancel funds with congressional approval, as the Trump administration did earlier this year with a $9 billion package to rescind funds for foreign aid and public broadcasting, but the 1974 Congressional Budget Act prohibits the executive branch from doing so unilaterally.
But the Trump administration has also found ways to circumvent the rules in other instances, including with temporary “holds” on targeted accounts. Democrats and some GOP appropriators have pushed back on such maneuvers, arguing it undermines Congress’ “power of the purse” as laid out in the Constitution.
The comptroller general, who leads the GAO, can sue in federal court under the 1974 law for the release of appropriations that have been illegally impounded.
Security boost, Library of Congress remains flat
In addition to the overall increase to the Capitol Police budget, Republican and Democratic appropriators touted $203.5 million in funding dedicated to enhancing security.
Threats against members and staff have been elevated since the first Trump administration, according to Capitol Police figures. But the assassination of Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman in June and of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk in September have raised concerns across Capitol Hill.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: GAO, Library of Congress avoid cuts in Legislative Branch bill – Roll Call
#Appropriations #CapitolPoliceBudget #EnhancingSecurity #FederalGovernmentShutdown #GAO #GovernmentAccountingOffice #LegislativeBranch #LibraryOfCongress #ReopenGovernment #RollCall #ThreeBillPackage
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„Große Fuge“ von Tian Gao mit dem Rothko String Quartett im FFT
War das nun ein Kammerkonzert mit Tanz oder ein Solotanz mit Live-Musik? Irgendwie ist „Große Fuge“ beides. Denn…
#Duesseldorf #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Düsseldorf #Festival #Fuge #Gao #Germany #Musik #musikalischen #Musikjahrzehnte #Nordrhein-Westfalen #Rothko #scheint #Solotanz #String #Tanz #Tanztheater #Tian
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Gao in Mali – multiethnisch, historisch, gefährdet. Die Grabpyramide von Askia erzählt vom Songhai-Reich und heute von Erhalt inmitten von Konflikten.
👉 Lesen & verstehen:
#Kulturerbe #Westafrika #Songhai #Architektur #Mali #Gao #Askia #Welterbe #SahelKultur #Mausoleum #UNESCO #Erinnerungskultur #AfrikaGeschichte #Welterbeschutz
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The Register: Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices . “The GAO flagged failures at the General Services Administration (GSA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the three reports, with each guilty of not implementing more recommendations than the last. The DHS’ CIO, in particular, has 43 unresolved […]
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The GAO is speaking out...
What is a “Pocket Rescission” and is It Legal?
https://www.gao.gov/blog/what-pocket-rescission-and-it-legal#GAO #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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CW: US Politics, NIH funding
"Trump administration violated impoundment law by canceling NIH grants, slowing new awards, GAO finds"
https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/gao-says-nih-cuts-violated-impoundment-control-act/
"In a scathing report issued Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling National Institutes of Health grants, had violated a 1974 law blocking presidents from withholding funding Congress has approved."
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🧵GAO history, its historical role, current attacks by Russell Vought, GOP, and Trump administration
#uspol #GAO #russellvought #trump
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“They don’t want any #accountability,” said Representative Rosa DeLauro, the Connecticut Democrat who leads her party on the chamber’s Appropriations Committee. “They’re annoyed the #GAO found the White House is stealing funds from taxpayers. That is the only plausible explanation for this.”
#Trump #law #ExecutiveBranch #AbuseOfPower #Project2025 #RussVought
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The #House bill would also block the #accountability office from suing the government to force the release of frozen funds, unless Dodaro & his successors obtain congressional support. That could make it harder for the office to conduct #oversight of #Trump, though #Senate #Republicans have not targeted the #GAO as part of their own appropriations bill for 2026. A spox for Valadao did not respond to a request for comment.
#law #ExecutiveBranch #AbuseOfPower #Project2025 #RussVought
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The #House measure, if passed, could force the #accountability office to reduce its staff by at least 2,200 people, acc/to an estimate that the #GAO furnished to lawmakers in June. The office warned that the cut would leave it unable to do work sought by both parties to uncover federal waste.
“It would have, if that were to happen, grave & pervasive effects on our services to #Congress,” Dodaro said in an interview.
#Trump #law #ExecutiveBranch #AbuseOfPower #Project2025 #RussVought
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In contrast, #House #Republicans in June proposed to strike nearly $400 million from the #GAO’s budget as part of a larger *spending* measure for next fiscal year. Its author, Rep David Valadao (R-CA), framed it in June as part of a broader crackdown on “unnecessary spending” in the legislative branch. But #RussVought appeared to offer another explanation on social media, writing: “Maybe GAO shouldn’t be partisan.”
#Trump #law #ExecutiveBranch #AbuseOfPower #Project2025 #RussVought
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On Monday, a federal #court ruled — in a case brought by #PublicInterest groups — that the #Trump admin had illegally disabled the website.
While the #GAO is a #legislative agency, its leader is appointed by the president based on a set of recommendations from #Congress, then confirmed by the #Senate. It is a unique structure, which #Paoletta described in 2024 as “clearly unconstitutional,” arguing that it limits whom the president may choose.
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Since returning to office, #RussVought has argued that the federal #law limiting #Trump’s spending powers is unconstitutional. And Dodaro has acknowledged that the admin has “not been cooperative” in the investigations.
The WH disabled a website this spring that had helped #oversight ofcls track #federal #spending, claiming it revealed sensitive info. The #GAO described the move in April as disruptive & potentially #illegal, w/“implications” for “congressional oversight,” incl’g on #impoundment. -
The feud dates back to Trump’s 1st term, when the office found that the admin wrongly withheld #military #aid to #Ukraine in an inquiry that set the stage for #Democrats to #impeach #Trump.
#RussVought & Paoletta, who held the same roles at the time, denied the charges. In a 2021 letter to #Congress, the 2 men faulted the #GAO for taking an “over-expansive & incorrect view of Congress’s #power of the purse, which infringes upon the president’s own constitutional authorities.”
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The next month, #Paoletta told a federal agency directly that it should “pay no heed whatsoever to GAO’s conclusions, as they are incorrect” on the matter of #impoundment. Paoletta said the #GAO took an overly broad view of the #law, & #Trump could legally withhold money temporarily “to determine the most appropriate use of the funds” [nope].
#law #ExecutiveBranch #AbuseOfPower #Project2025 #RussVought
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The scrutiny has enraged a WH focused on *cutting spending* that does not align w/Trump’s political views & priorities.
In a May letter to the #GAO, Mark #Paoletta, #OMB general counsel, described GAO’s requests as “voluminous, burdensome & inappropriately invasive.” He said the #Trump admin would stop cooperating in #impoundment investigations, claiming that its frequent requests for docs “undermine agency efforts to faithfully *implement* [subvert] the #law & the president’s priorities.”
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But the GAO’s recent work on #impoundment has proved more politically contentious, & under #Trump, it has been met w/fierce #Republican opposition.
In May, the #watchdog found that the admin wrongly blocked funds under a $5B program to build #EV charging stations, a component of the #Biden-era #bipartisan infrastructure #law that Trump sees as *wasteful*. In June, the #GAO determined the admin mishandled funding for #libraries & #museums, after Trump curtailed the agency overseeing the money.
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The #GAO has twice determined in recent months that Trump’s actions violated rules that prohibit him from unilaterally canceling #funding, a move known as #impoundment. The office has 46 open investigations into other allegations that #Trump illegally withheld funds, the agency confirmed this week.
#law #ExecutiveBranch #AbuseOfPower #Project2025 #RussVought
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The attacks target the #GovernmentAccountability Office [#GAO], a roughly century-old agency formed to help #Congress keep track of #federal #spending. The legislative office primarily produces detailed reports on ways that Washington can save money, sometimes rankling admins that are not so keen about its allegations of waste.
#law #ExecutiveBranch #Trump #AbuseOfPower #Project2025 #RussVought
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This article should have been titled Deregulation - Trump’s financial watchdogs promise a revolution. The regulatory pendulum swings violently #SEC #federalreserve #OCC #CFPB #CFTC #Crypto #gao #oversight #audits #regulations #congress #law Eeconomy #financialsystem #financialstability #pensions #fiduciary
The Economist no paywall https://archive.is/fZuMl#selection-1127.0-1131.40 -
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/doge_goa_probe
Musk’s DOGE probed by top watchdog after poking around Uncle Sam's systems
#doge #elonmusk #nazi #elon #fascist #musk #kakistocracy #us #coup #usa #junta #tech #technology #GAO #usgov #nasdaq #TSLA #tesla #swasticar #usaid #economy #finance #ai #xai #oversight #gov #usgov #uspol #politics #techbros #oligarchy #fascism #treasury #audits #comptroller #NHTSA #SSA #IRS #administration #NLRB #labor #Dodaro #senate #appropriations #OPM #Heinrich #agencies
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GAO Tells Coast Guard to Improve Cybersecurity of Maritime Transportation System – Source: www.securityweek.com https://ciso2ciso.com/gao-tells-coast-guard-to-improve-cybersecurity-of-maritime-transportation-system-source-www-securityweek-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SecurityArchitecture #CyberSecurityNews #securityweekcom #securityweek #coastguard #guidance #Maritime #GAO
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GAO Tells Coast Guard to Improve Cybersecurity of Maritime Transportation System https://www.securityweek.com/gao-tells-coast-guard-to-improve-cybersecurity-of-maritime-transportation-system/ #SecurityArchitecture #coastguard #guidance #Maritime #GAO
