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It’s housed under the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, the government-wide coordinating body for inspectors general.The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and the new special inspector general for pandemic recovery are also members. The committee is composed of inspectors general from relevant agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Justice, Labor, and Treasury, as well as the Small Business Administration.mitigating major risks that cut across agencies.preventing and detecting fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.PURPOSE: To oversee all spending, lending, and other outflows appropriated under the law, and under any past or future COVID-related measures. Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC)īUDGET: $80 million ALSO: Once in place, can the special inspector general get answers out of Treasury? In a signing statement he attached to the law, the president said he won’t abide by a key provision in the legislation that would require the special inspector general to notify Congress “without delay” if any agency is “unreasonable” in denying a request for information. Trump has made no public commitment to abide by the act (if you don’t count signing the bill into law).

There’s nothing to force the president to name a candidate to fill this post. KEEP YOUR EYE ON: If a nominee ever materializes. The law gives the special inspector general subpoena authority.The nominee must have “integrity and demonstrated ability in accounting, auditing, financial analysis, law, management analysis, public administration, or investigations”.The special inspector general to head the office is to be nominated by the president, “as soon as practicable” after Treasury starts spending its $500 billion, and then confirmed by the Senate.PURPOSE: To scrutinize the actions of the Treasury secretary in distributing $500 billion in aid under the CARES Act. Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR) Congress needs to make sure the organizations establish strong relationships and work toward the common goals of transparency and accountability. But if they get locked in turf battles, progress can grind to a halt, and agencies can play one against the other. That can be helpful-if they play well together-to ensure issues don’t get lost between disparate authorities. KEEP YOUR EYE ON: The three bodies have overlapping mandates. Pandemic Response Accountability Committee.