In 2014, the USA today posted an article stating how $614 billion dollars had been completely missing from the 302 federal program audit. The government ran website USASpending.gov is supposed to be a transparent and accurate representation of where our tax dollars are being spent, but the Government Accountability Office found that only 2-7% of the website’s data was accurate. So where is the rest of the money?

In response to this report, Jamal Brown, a spokesperson from the Office of Management and Budget, told the press, “OMB is committed to federal spending transparency and working with agencies to improve the completeness and accuracy of data submissions.”

Back in 2014, the Data Act was signed by President Obama and become the nations first open data law, which requires the U.S federal government spending to be transparent to its citizens. The problem remains that of these 430 different government agencies, sub-agencies, and departments they struggle to share information with one another in a timely and accurate manner. Also, a single organization may have various databases and information is stored in various formats. With over 2 million civilian workers presently working for the govt. in the U.S, it becomes impossible to accurately track spending and activities with varied databases. Multiple databases dispersed throughout the U.S that aren’t linked togETHer isn’t the government’s only technical issue at hand.