Iowa’s Fangless Watchdogs: The GAO, Which Saves Taxpayers Billions of Dollars Per Year, Is Under Threat, but the So-called Fiscal Conservatives in Congress Keep Mum

Members of Iowa’s congressional delegation love to cite the GAO. Since the dawn of DOGE, they have increasingly styled themselves as watchdogs against wasteful government spending. And in the process, they frequently turn to Government Accountability Office reports to criticize government spending. Why wouldn’t they? The GAO, along with inspectors general, are the ultimate pros at finding waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.