U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)

Recent Reports & Testimonies

Military Child Care

Coast Guard is Taking Steps to Increase Access for Families

GAO-22-105262
Published: Jun 30, 2022. Publicly released: Jun 30, 2022.
Financial Audit Manual

Volume 2, June 2022

GAO-22-105895
Published: Jun 30, 2022. Publicly released: Jun 30, 2022.
Financial Audit Manual

Volume 1, June 2022

GAO-22-105894
Published: Jun 30, 2022. Publicly released: Jun 30, 2022.
Aircraft Certification

Comparison of U.S. and European Processes for Approving New Designs of Commercial Transport Airplanes

GAO-22-104480
Published: Jun 30, 2022. Publicly released: Jun 30, 2022.
Facial Recognition Technology

Federal Agencies' Use and Related Privacy Protections

GAO-22-106100
Published: Jun 29, 2022. Publicly released: Jun 29, 2022.
Stimulus Checks

Direct Payments to Individuals during the COVID-19 Pandemic

GAO-22-106044
Published: Jun 29, 2022. Publicly released: Jun 29, 2022.

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Legal Decisions

Jul 01

Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Rescinding Requirement for Negative Pre-Departure COVID-19 Test Result or Documentation of Recovery From COVID-19 for All Airline or Other Aircraft Passengers Arriving Into the United States From Any Foreign Country

B-334416

Jun 30

Office of Personnel Management—Application of Section 608 of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2020, to the Office of Personnel Management's Restructuring and Reorganization

B-332704

Jun 30

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Border Patrol Lacks Important Information about Immigration Checkpoint...

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Each year, more than 50 million vehicles pass through U.S. Border...

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Real-Time Information Would Have Improved Federal Response to COVID-19

Thursday, June 23, 2022

COVID-19 has drawn attention to the urgent need for real-time...

As Cyberattack Risks Increase, How Is The Insurance Market and Government Responding?

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For Pride Month, We Look at Some of the Challenges Facing Some LGBTQ+ Communities

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GAO Designates Unemployment Insurance System as "High Risk"

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Washington, D.C. (June 7, 2022) – The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has added the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system to its list of federal areas at “High Risk” for waste, fraud, abuse...

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Meet The U.S. Comptroller General

Gene L. Dodaro is the eighth Comptroller General of the United States and head of GAO. As Comptroller General, Mr. Dodaro leads GAO and helps oversee the hundreds of reports and testimonies that GAO provides each year to various committees and individual Members of Congress. The U.S. Comptroller General is appointed to a 15-year term.

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Military Child Care: Coast Guard is Taking Steps to Increase Access for Families https://t.co/g5uYd4JJLr
— U.S. GAO (@USGAO) June 30, 2022

Aircraft Certification: Comparison of U.S. and European Processes for Approving New Designs of Commercial Transport Airplanes https://t.co/O0wbtQAVH5
— U.S. GAO (@USGAO) June 30, 2022

#BorderPatrol screens more than 50 million vehicles each year—looking for people, contraband and drugs that have entered the U.S. illegally. But we found gaps in this oversight & the data collected & used to inform its efforts. Today’s blog post explores: https://t.co/4KukoftLQu pic.twitter.com/0BAutOKQF6
— U.S. GAO (@USGAO) June 29, 2022

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