All that advice on how to save money? Lots of it goes down the drain, watchdogs tell Congress

Federal watchdogs told Senate lawmakers Thursday that thousands of their recommendations for eliminating millions of wasted dollars every year get swept under the rug and simply never implemented.

“While much progress has been made on many of our recommendations, other critical recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the federal government remain unimplemented,” Gene Dodaro, the U.S. comptroller general and chief of the Government Accountability Office told a Senate panel on regulatory affairs and federal management at a hearing on why agencies do not always listen to their watchdogs.