U.S. Comptroller General Testifies to House on GAO's 2025 High Risk List Update
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In his February 25, 2025, opening statement to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro, head of the GAO, spoke about GAO's 2025 High Risk List update. This year's List includes 38 high-risk areas, including one new area. GAO is adding Improving the Delivery of Federal Disaster Assistance to the List because of the increasing cost and complexity of federal support as natural disasters become more frequent and intense.
Actions to address high-risk issues have contributed to hundreds of billions of dollars saved since the List was established, including approximately $84 billion in financial benefits since our last update in 2023. Financial benefits over the past 19 years (fiscal years 2006-2024) totaled nearly $759 billion or an average of $40 billion per year.
Actions to address high-risk issues have contributed to hundreds of billions of dollars saved since the List was established, including approximately $84 billion in financial benefits since our last update in 2023. Financial benefits over the past 19 years (fiscal years 2006-2024) totaled nearly $759 billion or an average of $40 billion per year.