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By Dean Zerbe and Matthew Beddingfield
Senior Policy Analyst for the National Whistleblower Center; Senior Associate at Zerbe, Miller, Fingeret, Frank and Jadav LP
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The future of DOGE may be uncertain as Elon Musk steps back from his daily work; but what is clear is that there remain important possibilities and opportunities for eliminating waste in Washington.
Throughout our government there are already programs in place that were created with the sole purpose of uncovering fraud; initiatives that to date have already recovered billions of dollars for the American government. These are the whistleblower programs run by offices in the Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and other federal agencies.
Strategic spending cuts are a worthwhile goal, but DOGE and the administration should embrace these whistleblower programs as existing tools that can be used to recoup government monies lost while making better use of government enforcement staff. Here, the approach (alongside Congress) should be not just to spare, but to bolster these program offices and encourage greater use of whistleblower information.
These programs not only have bipartisan support, but a proven track record of recovering lost monies the U.S. government would never see if not for the informants that come forward.
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