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In our latest undercover investigation, we exposed an apparent covert effort inside the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) the non-partisan watchdog Congress created to keep the federal government honest and efficient — to sabotage the Trump administration’s overhaul of the Department of Health and Human Services. Steven Putansu, a 16-year veteran and current Assistant Director at the GAO, was recorded on hidden camera openly admitting that his colleagues “stole and backed up” vaccine research data that the Department of Health and Human Services, now led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had allegedly deleted. The stated goal: keep the data “outside...

Barriers constructed along the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration caused "significant damage and destruction" to the environment and cultural sites, the Government Accountability Office said... The watchdog's 72-page document says former President Donald Trump's efforts to deliver on a campaign promise — to construct more than 450 miles of border barrier panels along the southwest border to deter illegal crossings and activity — hampered the migration of endangered species, eroded federal lands, disrupted water flow and "irreparably" damaged sacred tribal sites. As they prepared to construct the wall in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, Trump administration officials waived...