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Fiscal Year 2025
Performance Plan
GAO Supports
Congressional Decision-
Making, Saves Taxpayer
Dollars, and Helps Improve
Government
The Government Accountability Office
(GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and
investigative arm of Congress. Commonly
known as the congressional watchdog, we
examine how taxpayer dollars are spent and
advise lawmakers and agency heads on
ways to make government work better.
As a legislative branch agency, we are
exempt from many laws that apply to
executive branch agencies. However, we
generally hold ourselves to the spirit of
many such laws, including the Federal
Managers' Financial Integrity Act of 1982,
the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010, and
the Federal Information Security
Modernization Act of 2014. This section of
GAO's fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget request
constitutes our performance plan.
We are unique in our audit and evaluation
capacity to support Congress by performing
original research, providing technical
assistance, and conducting analyses to help
Congress make informed decisions across
the federal budget, producing tangible
results and enhanced oversight. Our work
directly contributes to improvements in a
broad array of federal programs affecting
Americans everywhere.
We demonstrate our core values of
accountability, integrity, and reliability by
providing high-quality, high-value, and
independent support to the Congress in
ways that generate material benefits to the

nation. Given our reputation for consistently
producing high-quality work that is typically
based on original research, it is not
surprising that congressional demand for
our products and services remains strong.
During FY 2023, we received requests for
work from 93 percent of the full committees
of Congress and about 46 percent of their
subcommittees.
GAO continues to be one of the best
investments in the federal government. In
FY 2023, our work brought $70.4 billion in
financial benefits for the federal government
(a return of about $84 for every dollar
invested in GAO) and 1,220 in other
benefits that cannot be measured in dollars
but led to program and operational
improvements across the government.
More than 75 percent of our
recommendations were implemented over a
4-year period. Additional information on our
performance and accomplishments can be
found in our Performance and
Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 2023.1
In addition, our experts testified 57 times
before 32 separate committees or
subcommittees on topics including
coordinating a federal broadband strategy,
improving diversity in the financial services
industry, improving cybersecurity
protections for the nation's critical
infrastructure, modernizing veterans' health
record system, and addressing workforce
and asset needs in our border and maritime
operations.
A list of selected testimony topics from FY
2023 is included in table 1.

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