Trump's pick for OMB sounds enthusiastic about the Data Act -- FCW

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Summary:

"Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) stressed the importance of getting accurate and useful data in order to inform his and President Donald Trump's decision-making during his confirmation hearings to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

'In this age of big data, the government has all this data, but it isn't capable of using it because it can't even talk to itself about the numbers,' Mulvaney said at his hearing before the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

Mulvaney, best known as a debt and deficit hawk and a leader of the Tea Party faction in Congress that helped force the 2013 government shutdown, also lamented the opacity of federal spending data before the Senate Budget Committee: 'It's almost as if the computer systems in the agencies are set up to not even allow the men and women working there to understand how the money is being spent.'

The nominee said he was looking forward to the implementation of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, an open government law passed in 2014 requiring agencies to publish financial information in a standardized format to the USASpending.gov website."

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https://fcw.com/articles/2017/01/25/data-act-omb-mulvaney.aspx

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Date tagged:

01/26/2017, 20:30

Date published:

01/26/2017, 15:30