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GAO-23-106298 1 (2023-05-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaoosc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 23, 2023 The Honorable Shalanda Young Director Office of Management and Budget 725 17th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20503 Priority Open Recommendations: Office of Management and Budget Dear Ms. Young: I appreciate my ongoing meetings with Deputy Director Jason Miller and look forward to continuing a constructive working relationship between our two institutions. As you know, the purpose of this letter is to update you on the overall status of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) implementation of our recommendations and to call your continued personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2022, we reported that, government-wide, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 OMB's recommendation implementation rate for this period was 41 percent.3 As of May 2023, OMB had 160 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve OMB's operations. Since our July 2022 letter, OMB has implemented one of our 44 open priority recommendations and we have removed the priority status from six other recommendations. We have closed one recommendation related to fraud risk management. OMB issued a Controller Alert in October 2022 that helped clarify the distinction between the Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Act of 2015 requirements and Enterprise Risk Management to ensure fraud risks are appropriately managed. Clarifying these requirements for fraud risk management is responsive to our recommendation. It will help ensure that agencies are better positioned to improve controls and procedures to 1Priority recommendations are those that we believe warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2022, GAO-23-900398 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2022). 3We previously reported that the recommendation implementation rate for recommendations made to OMB 4 years prior were as follows: 77 percent in 2021, 60 percent in 2020, and 52 percent in 2019. GAO-23-106298 OMB Priority Recommendations Page 1

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