![]() And she said the agency has already gotten to work. "We're required to provide ongoing monitoring and oversight of the nation's preparedness for response to recovery from the pandemic, as well as examining the impacts of the pandemic on the economy, public health, as well as homeland security," she said.Ĭlowers said the GAO is also tracking how that $2 trillion is being spent. "We've been given a very broad oversight role under the CARES Act," Nicole Clowers, the managing director of the GAO's health care team, told NPR. The GAO is a nonpartisan agency that is a part of Congress. And while President Trump has pushed back on other oversight, it will be difficult for him to block the GAO's work. ![]() The CARES Act, the $2 trillion coronavirus response legislation Congress approved late last month, calls for a government watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, to monitor the spending and the overall federal response to the pandemic. The Government Accountability Office will be tracking management and distribution of the nation's stockpile as well as testing for coronavirus. Fred Leighty, warehouse manager at Oklahoma's Strategic National Stockpile warehouse, in Oklahoma City earlier this month.
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