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GAO’s High Risk List Highlights Ways to Save Billions and Help Agencies Work Better

February 26, 2025

At the start of each new Congress, we issue an update to our High Risk List. This list highlights areas across the federal government with serious vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, or in need of transformation.

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