United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Accounting and Information Management Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-05-23 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:T-AIMD-95-145 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-145 P0b002ee1803785e3 f:tai95145 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-145 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-145 T-AIMD-95-145 Federal agency reorganization Block grants Federal/state relations Community development programs Accountability Employment or training programs Educational programs Program management Defense operations Cost control DOD Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Program Strategic Petroleum Reserve SPR Commodity Supplemental Food Program USDA Emergency Food Assistance Program USDA Soup Kitchen/Food Bank Program Testimony AIMD The federal government runs a host of programs that often are duplicative and overlapping, reducing the efficiency and the effectiveness of government services. Program consolidation is a promising alternative. During the past year, GAO issued several reports documenting fragmentation and duplication in education programs. This testimony discusses some of the issues that GAO believes are important to efforts to consolidate education programs, emphasizing grant program consolidations. However, Congress has also shown great interest in program consolidations and streamlining across many areas of the federal budget--from defense and international affairs to transportation and welfare. Some consolidations will undoubtedly bring together activities that are entirely federal in nature. Yet many program consolidations being debated would merge smaller, more narrowly defined federal grant programs into larger programs of state and locally run federal assistance. It is expected that the new programs will operate as partnerships with state and local governments in which federal funding will be reduced. Accordingly, this testimony stresses the budgetary and other implications of grant consolidations for the federal government. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-145/html/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-145.htm GAO/T-AIMD-95-145 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-145 Testimony GAO/T-AIMD-95-145; Program Consolidation: Budgetary Implications and Other Issues; Federal agency reorganization Block grants Federal/state relations Community development programs Accountability Employment or training programs Educational programs Program management Defense operations Cost control DOD Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Program Strategic Petroleum Reserve SPR Commodity Supplemental Food Program USDA Emergency Food Assistance Program USDA Soup Kitchen/Food Bank Program