Eleanor Holmes Norton: ‘It Is Imperative That We Strengthen Federal Programs Not Gut Them’

During a House Oversight Committee hearing held last month, Del. Elanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) questioned experts on payments to constituents through federal government programs and how to strengthen their security and accuracy.
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If you have a government program that is stuffed with junk inside of it that more or less creates a waste of time or waste of resources you either have to go in and clean it up or delete the program entirely and start from scratch if you want to keep this program running and I believe most of the time you should just wipe it off the map start over keep the original program next to you so you can mark the fundamental things that are wrong with it start from scratch what is the purpose of the program what are the limitations and exceptions of the program how's this program going to be funded to start it and are you going to set up a smart way to have a way of the program refunding itself or having it have a special savings account that you're working off the savings to run the program instead of having to go back and get renewed reissued stop yearly make a program that has a way of self funding then you got a program that can last and keep itself functioning I'm tired of how the Democrats specifically what to spend a lot of money on something and yet there's absolutely no plan to make it self fundingso then every year you have to go back to the government or somewhere else and obtain funding to keep it running if you create a self-funding system that program can go on for as long as it's useful or make the program limited to a single run and then at the end of that run you bring the program back you reevaluate is it something that's still needed if it's not needed anymore the remaining money goes back to a new fund when will the Democrats think smart instead of wasting our money wasting our time and wasting the public's efforts