https://publishinghouse.org/tags/gao/ Recent content in GAO on Publishing House Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://publishinghouse.org/2026/04/03/gao-fiscal-warnings-unheeded-congress-2026/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://publishinghouse.org/2026/04/03/gao-fiscal-warnings-unheeded-congress-2026/ The Government Accountability Office has been filing versions of the same warning for nearly a decade. The March 2026 federal debt management report (GAO-26-107529) is the current iteration — technically new, analytically updated, politically unchanged in its consequence. The core finding is not about Treasury’s operational competence. That is documented and credited. The core finding is about structural trajectory: the federal government is on a fiscal path the GAO explicitly describes as unsustainable, and the mechanisms needed to alter that path require congressional action that has not come.