changes are going to have to be done through legislation and a constitutional amendment. >> that is david walker former head of the u.s. government accountability office. david, really appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. >> the part of education is very much on thet trump chopping block. president trump has signaled plans to dismantle it and move some of its key functions elsewhere. the education department oversee student loans, federal funds for lower income students and special education programs among many other things. already the doge group and the administration put a number of staff on leave and are stopping more than $900 million in contracts that allow for key education research on student and school performance. for more, we are joined by laura macklin, the national education writer for the washington post. thanks for being here. so, the $900 million worth of contracts that elon musk and his allies have canceled all but decimated the agency's research division, a big part of what the department of education does, it gathers in research and data. what is the expected impact? >> well,

amna: for more perspective, we turn now to david walker. 1990 and two thousand eight, he headed the u.s. government accountability office that investigates federal spending. david, welcome to the news hour. thank you for joining us. so i think it is fair to say you would be hard-pressed to find someone who says there is absolutely no waste or fraud in government spending but when you look at what doge is doing and how they are doing the job so far, do you think that they are targeting the waste and fraud that you think they should be? david: what they are doing is a review of information systems and transactions. they are not doing an audit and they are identifying areas that could be fraud, waste, abuse, or judgment. in most cases, it is arguably waste and mismanagement rather than necessarily illegal or fraudulent activity. what they are demonstrating is that the federal government has thousands of outdated nonintegrated information systems and totally inadequate controls and that is one of the reasons that you are seeing some of these sen

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