The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report Tuesday detailing areas of the federal government especially vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse, hours ahead of a House Oversight Committee hearing to discuss its findings.
The government’s chief watchdog releases a report at the start of each Congress to identify which federal programs are most susceptible to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement.
Tuesday’s report, which includes recommendations to executive branch agencies as well as Congress, is the first delivered during the age of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The GAO’s 2025 High-Risk List highlights 38 areas across the federal government “that are seriously vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement or that are in need of transformation.”
The recommendations also call for greater federal efforts “to better understand the status of private sector technological developments with cybersecurity implications – such as artificial intelligence – and to continue to enhance public and private sector coordination.” The GAO also stressed how the “federal government spends more than $100 billion annually on IT, with the vast majority of this spent on operations and maintenance of existing systems rather than new technology.”
Danielle Wallace is a breaking news and politics reporter at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on X: @danimwallace.
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