Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Have Become Virtually Untraceable

“This information should be free, and it should be available, and it should be available in a format that we can use and understand,” said Nan Swift, a budget transparency expert at the conservative R Street Institute. But now, “unless you have whistleblowers in place, the only way to know something has been cut is if the anticipated recipients step up and say, ‘We didn’t get XYZ.’”