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The General Services Administration is supposed to make the government more eficient, but apparently has its own spending problems
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Hello -- Vegas conference took -- in mind readers at 270001.
Day awards ceremony near Washington and outrageous bonuses to -- The GSA becoming a symbol of government waste now after taking lots of heat the GSA getting -- top to bottom review so -- anything change.
The agency's acting administrator appear before a senate panel Griff Jenkins caught up with them on Capitol Hill.
-- -- new and improved GSA tell us because we've been very critical very agency tell us what you've been able to do in the five months since you're there that is turn the -- Well I think your reporting has been helpful in letting us know what's on the issues are.
Tonight heads are rolling at the TSA.
830 some thousand dollars -- which is washed away and American taxpayer -- it's actually deplorable there's so many levels of where people are just looking the other way.
-- public beating and the outrage over the GSA's colossal abuse of taxpayer money reaches Capitol Hill.
We've been working with the IG with the -- -- GAO.
But we've really been trying to drive home the presidents message that we need to be effective and efficient and delivering our services so we've -- -- place.
We've really worked with the entire TSA organization -- votes.
What needs to be better here.
And we -- In taking steps to try to make the organization better I think what a lot of our viewers -- people say how could this happen since I ask you how did have a why did happen.
I think as I said before that there wasn't clear enough transparency.
And accountability.
We just weren't able to see down into the organization.
And as a result get a good picture.
The direction -- -- We're working very hard there are a lot of very very committed people within the organizations and the people are angriest about -- the -- in the waste.
Are the great TSA employees whose hard work has been turned into a -- Heavy sacks in the moment.
-- -- we found another regional employee was.
Planning for a party -- you guys stopped it in the last minute and I think that's the trick is making sure that people know that we are paying attention.
That we are going find out and we are gonna try to stop these things before they happen.
But I think more importantly I think everyone in the organization recognizes what our core -- saving money.
And they're really committed to delivering on that mission now and we're gonna give them every help and and provide them every assistance in seeing that -- In less cushion -- stimulating woody is.
The level of confidence you can give me and the viewers that you and I will be talking six months from now they must now about another.
-- Las Vegas type conference gone well I'm I'm a 100% confident that we won't be here because of lack of trying.
That we won't have done everything in our power to build the systems.
To build the organization -- really get the message out that anything like that is completely unacceptable.
