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GAO Staff Warn Access Worsened as Trump Weighs Ueland

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Story summary
  • U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing nomination of Eric Ueland as GAO comptroller general.
  • Eric Ueland serves as top deputy to OMB Director Russ Vought.
  • GAO staff say agency access problems have worsened under the pending nomination.
  • GAO ruled the Trump administration’s $800 million pocket rescissions violated spending law.
  • A bipartisan commission to select a new comptroller general has not met nine months after Gene Dodaro’s term ended.