Hill Awards Golden Fleece to the Office of Personnel Management for Wasteful Spending on Idle Warehouse
Washington,
December 13, 2017
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Accountability
Congressman French Hill (R-AR) named the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as the latest winner of the Golden Fleece award for wasteful spending on an idle data warehouse. OPM has spent over $10 million to build a data warehouse for health claims data from beneficiaries of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHB), data that OPM does not have, according to a recent Politico article. “For an agency that reveals the misuse of tax dollars within the federal government, OPM missed their own mark by wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on a warehouse to store data they don’t have,” said Rep. Hill. “I question whether OPM should even have access to FEHB beneficiary data after Chinese hackers breached their security system in 2015 and accessed 21.5 million OPM files. I sent a letter to Acting Director of OPM Kathleen McGettigan to raise these concerns with her.” To view the letter sent to Acting Director of OPM Kathleen McGettigan, click here. |
