$619 billion missing from federal transparency site

Federal Times: A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent is missing at least $619 billion from 302 federal programs, a government audit has found.

And the data that does exist is wildly inaccurate, according to the Government Accountability Office, which looked at 2012 spending data. Only 2 percent to 7 percent of spending data on USASpending.gov is "fully consistent with agencies' records," according to the report.

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