The U.S. Department of Justice can make progress on one of its longtime challenges—stopping mismanagement and misuse of federal grant programs—by making more information publicly available, the agency’s inspector general told Congress today.
At a hearing before a House subcommittee, Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department inspector general, said grant recipients are already required to keep information internally on the receipt of federal dollars. Congress, he said, should consider giving DOJ oversight of that data and making that information publicly available on websites such as USAspending.gov.
