DOGE leader Elon Musk wears a shirt that says “Tech Support” as he speaks during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 26, 2025. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
The congressional watchdog told staff it’s “not subject to DOGE or Executive Orders” after the White House efficiency group attempted to set up shop within the agency.
Gene Dodaro, comptroller general of the Government Accountability Office, center, testifies during a Legislative Branch Subcommittee hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 2025. (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)
New recommendations from the GAO in its annual report follow DOGE’s acknowledgement that its trillion-dollar cost-savings goals have fallen well short.
Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, center, testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Legislative Branch subcommittee, while Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel, left, and Government Publishing Office Director Hugh Halpern, right, look on. The hearing was held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Comptroller General Gene Dodaro told Senate lawmakers that the watchdog is examining what the group has done with data in Treasury, Social Security and OPM networks.
Government Accountability Office Comptroller General Gene Dodaro stands in the hallway and waits for a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to begin on Capitol Hill on Feb. 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The comptroller general said DOGE is “actually using our recommendations” after the Elon Musk-led group had barely any contact with the watchdog during the first month of…
Accountability Office Comptroller General Gene Dodaro waits for a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to begin on Capitol Hill on Feb. 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. At the start of a new Congress, the GAO delivers a report to highlight which federal programs are the highest risk of susceptibility to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
As the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce, the comptroller general said Elon Musk and his associates have barely sought out GAO’s cost-cutting and efficiency guidance.
The agency is currently in an 'experimentation phase' with a large language model that could lend itself to a variety of use cases, GAO's chief data scientist…
U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro of the Government Accountability Office testifies during a hearing before the Coronavirus Crisis Subcommittee of House Oversight and Reform Committee June 26, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Leadership commitment to national cybersecurity regressed, in large part due to the lack of a comprehensive National Cyber Strategy or national cyber director.
Asked at a hearing Wednesday how lawmakers could be of assistance in helping agencies better secure their IT infrastructures, Kent pointed immediately to a "continued focus on…