GAO High Risk List
Strategic Issues Managing Director for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Michelle Sager talked about the GAO’s “High Risk List,” which highlights programs vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse.
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Strategic Issues Managing Director for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Michelle Sager talked about the GAO’s “High Risk List,” which highlights programs vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- According to Michelle Sager, what is the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) and what does it do?
- When and why did the "High Risk List" get started?
- How often is the List updated and what is "highlighted" during each revision?
- Based on the clip, what can be found on the GAO's High Risk List website?
- Summarize the "combination of factors" that gets a program on the High Risk List.
- What are the "broad categories" on the 2023 High Risk List?
- According to Sager, what impact did the coronavirus pandemic have on the High Risk List? How, and why?
- What "tension" exists related to the coronavirus pandemic? Why?
- Describe the process of "recovering" lost funds.
- EXTENSION: Visit https://www.gao.gov/high-risk-list and scroll down to the "Current List" section of the website. Select one of the items on the current list to explore. Prepare a brief presentation to share with the class that contains the following, at minimum: 1.) Why the area is high risk, 2.) What remains to be done, and 3.) What Congress needs to do.
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Participants
Vocabulary
- Audit
- Congress
- Coronavirus Pandemic
- Department Of Defense
- Department Of Health And Human Services
- Fraud
- Government Accountability Office
- Inspector General
- Nonpartisan
- Qualitative
- Quantitative
- Tax
- Unemployment Insurance
- Watchdog