Any funds not accounted for should be an easy trim from the budget baseline.
HHS can’t account for 20% of its budget? No prob, here’s your 20% cut.
Every politician and bureaucrat should be audited yearly, and any living beyond their means made to disclose their sources of income. How is it possible to become fabulously wealthy on $174,000 a year in a high cost, high tax environment like the DC area?