"Government transparency websites likely will be scaled back or even eliminated as a result of a 75 percent budget cut that congressional leaders and the White House agreed to last week," William Matthews of GovExec.com writes for National Journal.
The $34 million Electronic Government Fund, being cut to $8 million, "supports websites such as http://www.usaspending.gov/ and the IT Dashboard, which provide public access to vast amounts of information on how the government spends money," Matthews writes. "Another transparency site, http://www.data.gov/, also is endangered, transparency advocates said. The site offers access to 380,000 government agency data sets as diverse as climate change statistics and export licensing records." (Read more)
The $34 million Electronic Government Fund, being cut to $8 million, "supports websites such as http://www.usaspending.gov/ and the IT Dashboard, which provide public access to vast amounts of information on how the government spends money," Matthews writes. "Another transparency site, http://www.data.gov/, also is endangered, transparency advocates said. The site offers access to 380,000 government agency data sets as diverse as climate change statistics and export licensing records." (Read more)
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