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Re: by greenchair on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:53PM (#42940295)
No wonder politicians are terrified of touching entitlement programs..

Audit is not about "owning the libs". Libs are irrelevant as the Democrat brand has cratered. Anyway the audit is about exploring opportunities for cost savings for an entitlement program that continues to grow unabated. We know it has massive fraud problems (even perpetrated by state governments) which directly impact cost of coverage, medicine, etc.

Re: by notahacker on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:07PM (#42940499)
Nothing says "sincere, well intentioned audit" quite like a billionaire gloating on social media about shutting down entire departments over the weekend whilst his staff of 7 interns with no auditing experience demand access to everyone's data on the basis they're the United States Digital Service...
Re: by ok_dad on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:37PM (#42942360)
“Entitlement” means “life dependent” I guess, so they should be afraid! Smashing things with a hammer isn’t an audit, I audited medical device manufacturing processes from time to time in the past and this isn’t an audit. Audits are for asking questions and then you take those answers and write a report. After the report you make a plan of action and then there are approvals and change management. Once that’s done, you make the changes and then have a period of time where you more closely watch and increase inspections and audits to ensure everything is going as planned, that’s called validation.

You don’t rush into offices, take them over, kick out senior employees, make charges to a system you don’t understand, and cut funding for whole departments at large. That’s not auditing, that’s more like a coup.