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Should Congress go ahead and pass legislation to spend $1, $2, $5 or $6 trillion, a giant burden will fall on the federal workforce like a sack of hay. Will the government have controls in place for the spending programs? Will it even have the basic capacity? For some expert thinking Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to Professor Bob Tobias, of the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University.
Interview transcript:
Tom Temin: And Bob, these programs, these stimulus bills are these trillions would fall on eventually the federal bureaucracy to turn them into programs. What are the challenges you see with this level of spending?
Bob Tobias: Well, Tom, it’s huge. I mean, it’s projected to be about $4.1 trillion, which is more than five times the amount of the bill that President Obama signed in 2009, to implement the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. And I think, actually, the canary in the coal mine is seen with the recent Supreme Court ruling that said that delaying evictions can no longer occur. So in February, Congress allocated $21.6 billion for rent support, and only a small part of it has been distributed. Here we are at the end of August. So it required a brand...
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