Our masters in government

Are not updating a watchdog website designed to track their mendacity. From The Washington Free Beacon:

Over Half of the Federal Government’s Spending Data Is Wrong
A new bipartisan Senate report revealed more than half of the government's public data on federal spending is wrong, as the website USAspending.gov is riddled with errors.

The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by chairman Rob Portman (R., Ohio) and ranking member Tom Carper (D., Del.), released a report Tuesday finding nearly every agency is failing to accurately report its spending as required by federal law.

The subcommittee reviewed over two dozen inspector general reports and determined 55 percent of the spending data submitted to USAspending.gov was inaccurate. The errors accounted for $240 billion in spending during the second quarter of 2017, according to the report.

The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014, or DATA Act, required federal spending to be easily accessible to the public through a searchable website, which became USAspending.gov. The website was revamped earlier this year, but agencies are not meeting their requirements to submit accurate, consistent, and reliable data on its spending.

The agency in charge of USAspending.gov—the Treasury Department—is among the worst culprits, as 96 percent of its own data is inaccurate.

A PDF of the report can be found here: FEDERAL AGENCY COMPLIANCE WITH THE DATA ACT

The good part starts on Page 37 (the report is 46 pages long) - they cite examples of each agency as they misreported the data on the website. Complete with screenshots. Time to shrink the state down to where it can function efficiently. We have too many administrators and middle-level managers and not enough people actually doing the work.