of the gao recommendation. with that, mr. chairman i yield back in >> you are getting near the midpoint of the fbmt program and many of the important milestones are being delayed while the cost estimate continues to rise, these are the concerns that i have when i start looking back at some of the other software programs that we have invested in, i understand you did not initially include the operations and made the calls for the life of the system through 2047, the implementation costs have also been increasing from 2.3 billion up to 4.2 billion. completion has slipped from 2028 to 20 30 or later. similar to his question, why is the implementation caused increasing, can you guarantee me it will not go above that 4 point to billion-dollar market? >> thanks for that question, currently, the projected lifecycle cost estimate is that 7.46 which is accounting for the uses that you indicated, what we will tell you is that based on the methodology that we are using to deploy, there will be instances from time to time

i know that gao makes recommendations. but i still would like to see your response on your implementation of the gao recommendations. with that, mister chairman, i yield back. >> thanks very much, representative self. miss riffel you are getting near the midpoint of the fm beechy program. many of the important milestones are being delayed will the cost estimate continues to rise. these are the concerns that i have when i start looking at some of the other software programs that we've invested in. i understand you did not initially include the operations cost for the life of the systems through 2047. but the implementation cost have also been increasing, from 2.3 billion up to 4.2 billion. completion has slipped from 2028 to 2030, or later. similar to representative self's question, why is the implementation cost increasing, and can you guarantee me it will not go above that 4.2 billion dollar mark? >> thanks for that question. so currently, the projected life cycle cost estimate is at seven point 46, going out to 2047. whi

militant groups also attacked a military base on thursday, in that gao area.rstand that 15 soldiers were also killed, sparking fears of increasing attacks on militant groups in the area. united nations troops are pulling out of mali. i5 nations troops are pulling out of mali. , :, , , , ., mali. is there any sense that authorities _ mali. is there any sense that authorities there _ mali. is there any sense that authorities there have - mali. is there any sense that authorities there have a - mali. is there any sense that authorities there have a plan mali. is there any sense that i authorities there have a plan or mali. is there any sense that - authorities there have a plan or the resources to try and combat these sort of attacks?— sort of attacks? basically the military government - sort of attacks? basically the military government in - sort of attacks? basically the military government in mali l sort of attacks? basically the l military government in mali is sort of attacks? basically the - military government in mali is being helped by the russian wagner

on friday, a boat on the niger river in the northern gao region, and a military camp at bamba were targetedkilled. the last two days of attacks in the northern region of gao in mali seem to suggest that the malian military does not have a handle over the security situation in the country. a group claimed an attack on friday over a military base in the region and on thursday, a riverboat carrying civilians down the river. niger was also attacked by islamist militants, suspected islamist militants. nobody�*s yet claimed responsibility for that attack. now, rivers are an important way for many people in northern mali to travel because many of the roads are considered too dangerous and are not in very good condition. and this is one of the highest death tolls that the region has seen in a while. more than 60 people, including women and children. it illustrates just how difficult the security situation has become in northern mali. it's an area that is one of the most dangerous areas in the world now and one of the deadliest for terrorist attacks. groups affiliated with the so called islamic stat

it's very interesting to hear the gao. [inaudible] a human factor issue. so my question is, will that the vista just a second period how do prescriptions get filled differently under oracle and sooner than they do under investec? i assume that using the same pharmacy human factors. >> thank you congressman. so oracle there are five sites the prescriptions are filled the same pathway as our va medical facility. across the nation 84% of our prescriptions go through our mail order pharmacy system. the difference with sites is what you heard from the different folks at the panel today. the increase in staffing for our sites. so for example from visiting with our staff it takes approximately twice as long to process the prescription. it's our staff's dedication to the mission to care for a nation's veterans that still ensures we are delivering high-quality pharmacy services to our veterans. so to my knowledge i do not believe there is significant delays from prescription delivery services. or whether it is from a vista site. the big issue for our staff is the a

gao has been really helpful to us.raft this national cyber strategy, we looked at the lessons of gao and recommendations that gao published some years before what could be effective and that's what led to the implementation plan. the next step, though, to make sure that we are held accountable for all of it so we are looking forward to publishing what we call a posture report, what is the state of cybersecurity now. partly by data driven that we are getting input that we are is assessing and analyzing it and we are operationalizing it but then we are going to publish and be held accountable for what's the posture of the nation so we can advise the president on the coming thing and i told you before the national cyber strategy diagnostic and technology. some of the things that we are leaning into outside of the strategy, at least that's not clearly placed in the middle of the strategy is cybersecurity system, for example, what does that look like. we are leaning in with the national space council and national security c

the department of treasury in the congressional department and the gao all got together.ent fiscal policies unsustainable over the long term. these are government bureaucrats responsible for watching the physical state of the country. some of which are attached to congress. some are attached to the executive branch one is independent all th things same thing. it's projected to grow at a faster pace than the size of the economy. that is getting big. we being swallowed by the debt we are in a death spiral right now. just like open borders and the destruction of citizenship and sovereignty these are the two biggies the death of the nation. finds a fiscal year 2022 federal deficit was among the highest in american history, 2022. this occurred even though revenue growth has been strong and federal covenant teen relief spending has declined from recent years. in addition the cost of financing at that increase from prior years because interest rates rose substantially in fiscal year 2022. in other words a huge percentage of the budget is now going to papay interest on the accumu

liz: all this will outrage the voters in the gao spent a dozen military installations in california, texas, colorado, dc and that is what they were looking at and so torturous think of the found black mold, sewage flowing the bathrooms and broken fire alarms which you pointed out broken air conditioners, groundwater, bedbugs and even squatters and luck security and suicides military .com said that this confirms come place by many service members, for many years and so why is not the administration wise in the pentagon listening to those complaints. keith: within a listing because nobody is being held accountable. what you need to do while here's how you make people accountable, and basically remove people coming fire them and you say okay, here are the director of housing for the department of defense and there is one like i mentioned earlier, yoking the door you say, you don't have a job tomorrow, you do the same thing in the military hold people accountable. all of the way down to the commanders on the ground, and primarily the most senior levels, look at when into look to the webs

has sent more than $3 billion to mexico to fight gun and drug trafficking but the gao, the investigative arm of congress, found that the government cannot demonstrate that the money has been spent effectively. reports that about 70% of firearms seized in mexico between 2014 and 2018 originated in the u.s. >> reporter: it has nothing to do with american citizens owning firearms. it is nothing to do with the second amendment. it has everything to do with, you cannot export firearms to cartels. >> president biden and top officials have acknowledged that the pipeline poses a serious problem. they have vowed to take steps to stop it. you can see more on how american-sold guns are getting into the hands of cartels tonight on the cbs evening news with norah o'donnell. you can see the full documentary on cbs news.com and paramount plus. >>> right now, a plan is being discussed on safe storage of guns inside homes. it would require guns to be kept in a safe place like a lockbox. the measure would extend to incorporated areas of contra costa county. >>> a proposal for a tax to be raised on guns an

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has the gao bothered to look into that? another thing i would like to know, has anyone bothered to start an audit of the military? thank you. guest: regarding members of congress, i am not aware of any work in that area. but i would also note that the spa inspector general's active investigating cases of alleged fraud. in the ppp program for example that the caller mentioned but i would not have any knowledge about specific numbers of congress being involved in those investigations. host: mr. bagdoyan, when it comes to the white house's approach to this, there was a story about what the white house would like to do, saying mr. den aims to deal with osecion and is asking for $600 million for prosecution including funds to create 10 new justice department strike is an addition to three already tweeted to go after syndicates and other fraudsters. also because on increasing the statute of limitations for s crimes to 10 years, giving more time to investigate and prosecute cases. what do you think about those approaches? guest: t

the crash of an il-76 military transport aircraft in mali; the plane crash occurred in the city of gaoto the so-called touch zone, this is the border on the runway before which the crew must land. as a result, the remaining length of the runway was simply not enough to stop the heavy transporter, after which it rolled onto a sandy embankment caught fire. immediately after the crash , rumors appeared that the il-76 was somehow connected with a private military company, but later journalists found out that the il was actually used in the mali bs for transporting cargo. it is not yet known how many people were on board. our e-sportsmen have once again proven that they can win even when they are not played against. according to the rules. daniil abdorakhmadov and egor lusiko became the winners of the tournament in the computer game fortnite. for this they had to pay 200,000 dollars, but the organizers were not satisfied with their citizenship, citizenship of our players. at the same time, the russians pointed out that formally the rules of the championship were not violated, the cybersport

host: the gao puts the program of flood insurance on its high sk list year after year. they say it's experienced difficult chaenges because it's tasked with two competing goals, keeping it affordable and keeping the program solvent. it has led tium rates that that has transferred some of the ncial burden for individual property owners to taxpayers. as of september, 2022, the debt was huge after having canceled $16 billion of debt in 2017. guest: that is changing. the flood insurance program that fema runs has always been a hybrid of an insurance program and a social welfare program. as you say, there are these two conflicting demands in federal law that say it should be run like a business, like your homeowner insurance reflection rates. the flood insurance should reflect the flood risk of your property and yet there is language in the statute of the insurance should be affordable. it's one of those vague terms that's scattered throughout the united states code. what fema has done since the program was created in 1968 is focused more on affordability. the result has bee

now what we're told by gao losto to is the israeli fugitive who's been with a bunch of fara violations and gunrunning charges ans by the southern, district of new york and is on the run. e is tng uwhat telling us is tht the chinese him that there was an fbi mole that hunter had that had told them that there were four indictments in the southern district of new york trict ofagainst biden's chinese business partners and at some point that tip off went to patrick hollow the verytsap same day that hunter biden is having these whatsapmessagesp ms and talking about highly sensitive and confident shall information patrick corey's job get out of town. he leaves the next day gets a on a plane goes to hong kong and it's it stays there for four months but not before according to this guy gao laughed to as i say, is a, went fugitive. but i mean, everyone around the bidens is pretty shady gal, luft says. and he talks to patrick regularly that patrick co claims that hunter biden and jim biden visited hihim in honge kong and asked him to buy themdh to burner iphones. and then they told him the coast

i do not know if you have ever heard a government official said this, but gao has been very helpful to us. [laughter] when we set out to craft this national cybersecurity strategy, we looked at the lessons that gao published about what could be effective. the next step is to make sure we are held accountable for all of it. so we are looking forward to publishing a posture report, what is the state of cybersecurity now? that is what we mean partly by data-driven. that we are operationalizing it, but then we are going to be held accountable for the effect so that we can advise the president in advance. it is agnostic to technology, but some of the things outside of the strategy that is not clearly placed in the middle of strategy is cybersecurity systems. we are leaning in with the national security council's i am answering that question. we have set openly that we are after a digital ecosystem that is aligned with our values. when you start thinking about cyber spaces, what does that mean? aligned with our values? you will see something coming out of our office. so implementation workfo

gao published about what could be affected and the implementation plan.rd to publishing posture support. what is the cybersecurity now, hardly data-driven, that we are getting input and analyzing it, that we are operationalizing it, then publish and be held accountable for, the cost of cybersecurity that we can invite the coming things in advance, then i told you national cyberstrategy, technology. but some of the things we were leading into outside of the strategy, not placed in the middle of the strategy, cybersecurity, what does that look like. leading in with the national space council and the national security council on answering that question. we have said openly and emphatically that we are after a system that' s defensible and aligned with our values. what does align with our values mean? when you start thinking about cyberspace, technology, part people and part doctrine, the technology layer, what does that mean coming out of our office? implementation of workforce, implementation of national cyberstrategy, space, what does it mean to be aligned

back in 2013, gao and congressional reports looked at the impacts on small business operators that havects through the government and there is an impact on their ability to do operations. they had to furlough employees in contracts by one third. there was material impact for shutting their doors. ed: i am sorry to jump around. i am fascinated by your backgrounds. you have been in economic affairs and policy in the government side and now you think about defense and technology. we always talk about the artificial intelligence in terms of the moral debate. the industry is worried that it is used for defense. but you are saying that china is spending in this area so the u.s. should too. how should we balance that moral can out? jane: in terms of the pacing challenge of china. they made it clear in terms of technology for ai, cloud computing they want to be dominant by 2030 and they have amassed their investments and resources for that goal. the debate that is happening right now it's important. we need to make sure we are focusing on the near term on agency operations and keeping our doors

our influence, our leverage, showing the armenian democracy and sovereignty is a priority from off gao. the us expanding its military influence into the caucuses, could spell serious trouble for the region. we see nothing good in the fact that an aggressive kinetic counter is trying to penetrate the transcode because i don't think this is good for anyone, including community itself. we regret the actions of the armenian leadership spiking tensions in the us once again, trying to nudge its way into a region half way across the globe. a potential recipe for disaster in the board and a car box that only russian lead multilateral diplomacy seems poised to be able to resolve. in other news, kia hasn't strongly criticized international organizations, including the u. n. and the international read across these statements, the credit and presidential advise that because of the i can call them fictitious. it sounds a little one of the inside that you have is involved the absentee organization. the so i would say is a public relations or a lobbying office to money for the good old people occupyi

a boat on the niger river in the northern gao region, and a military camp at bamba were targeted. 50brutal" conditions at the 2023 us open, with temperatures rising to about 35 celsius. us open organisers have been partially closing the roof on the main courts to provide some shade to players. the tournament does have a heat policy, which allows for a ten—minute break after the second set of a women's match and third set of a men's match when the temperatures hit 30.1 celsius. live now to rebecca stearns from the department of kinesiology, university of connecticut. essentially i exercise science, we study exercise and the body. let’s study exercise and the body. let's aet study exercise and the body. let's net on to study exercise and the body. let's get on to the _ study exercise and the body. let's get on to the issue, _ study exercise and the body. let's get on to the issue, worries about the extreme heat, what are the concerns about doing that level of sporting endeavour in those temperatures? taste sporting endeavour in those temperatures?— sporting endeavour in those temperatu

the sewage treatment plants, the grand canyon has a water supply and we have a project thanks to the gao a and wreck the money is to get that water system fix. >> that is one of the things i really wanted to hit was the water supply on the issue. i want to come back to the overflight effect. how receptive would you be to that board in regards to their plans? mr. reynolds: i am not super familiar with the board and its make up but we would listen and are trying to be as transparent as we can in the planning effort so i cannot see what we would not want to work with them. >> i think they felt like they have come up with some rather interesting solutions and yet have not been heard. i thought it would be very interesting to see how you could work with them. mr. reynolds: yeah. >> a lot of these people only go over the airspace. they are from somewhere else or ms. lee's district and have their outfit at the mccarran airport and they fly over there and keep their trash all the way until they come back at mccarran. i think it would be a great thing. well, i am running short of time. you want a

i enjoyed your program about the unemployment disparities, and i am wondering if gao will ever get aroundo doing a forensic audit on the ppp program, whereby many in congress benefited. host: you can go to their website and look good it has a searchable database if you go to gao.gov to search that if you want to check out for yourself. i would not know offhand but i am sure you can search there. why are you interested particularly? elaborate on that. caller: the reason it concerns me, somebody mentioned earlier the focus on the little guy. big money went out the door under that program that was administered by jared kushner. big money. and it went to corporate interests. and a lot of it went to members of congress for their various side hustles, whatever they do. i was very curious as to whether or not they are paying as much scrutiny to that money as they are the unemployment checks. host: so just buy a quick search, there was a report out in march of last year just to show you the headline. the program changes increased lending to smaller and underserved businesses read this could be on

what's your reaction to the story on the gao reporting our u.s.thy, squalid living conditions in a dozen u.s. barracks -- in u.s. barracks in a doozen states? we looked into it, it's worse than what we reported earlier in the week. >> yeah. sadly, i think your assessment that it's much bigger than what's being reported is, sadly, probably accurate and, from my experience, probably checks with what i experienced as well in my 20 plus years in the navy. it's unacceptable, it's certainly requiring leadership's engagement, and i'm talking senior uniformed leadership's engagement. as a senior officer, even as a mid-grade officer, i would visit my junior enlisted and june officers' barracks and quarters to the make sure it was up to standards. the same thing needs to be held to all of the senior leaders, that they need to check on how their soldiers, sailors and airmen are living. elizabeth: we just showed a bed with bedbugs, sue war -- it's a hair on fire moment. fix it now. please bear with us, again, it's worse than what we reported. inspections of a

in china at the of their schooling the children take what's called the gao kao, which is a very formal it derives from the confucian examination of way, way back it briefly halted during the after revolution in 1911 and holds it again during cultural revolution in the 1960s. but it's now back in full. and it is a major, major event in china. it lasts for three days, all the children, so dozens of millions of children take it. and the examination halls where these kids tested, blocked off by the police and the children are searched. they don't have any electronic cheating mechanisms. and motorists are told not to use the horns of the parents gathered outside, outside the police barricades, waiting for the children to come out and it's a big because if they get it right, their future is more or less if they get a low score, then just told you about what to me in 19, whatever it was 62. but here this is the the golkar. of 2022. so last year in china i thought you'd be interested. a couple of the examination questions. the containers for are always square boxes containers for mineral water

gun, shot, load , ukrainian offensive attempts are now immediately stopped by gao crews without a connectiond the coordinates to the rear. western equipment was stopped by targeted fire, the crew fled, and then the kamika lancet drone came into action and today our fighters received well-deserved certificates for... in addition to leopards, of course, there are equipment, there are polish crabs, they also hit them successfully. kiev almost immediately after the house of representatives of the us congress voted to allocate $300 million to ukraine, announced a new visit of the american delegation. according to the head of the office, zelsky will come from washington to discuss the joint production of air defense, but according to bloomberg, this is only an excuse for revising already allocated funds and an opportunity to stall for time. because of ukraine , the pentagon is rapidly running out of money to modernize its weapons. denis davydov about why else about ukraine in washington is spoken less and less often. there is so much ukraine in american politics that congresswoman marjari reminds

i will say colleagues, this is unprecedented in my 2 and a half years as chair of gao. this was the first meaningful opportunity the public had to learn about and comment on the pilot activation plan for un plaza and farmers market relocation. by refusing to work with community leaders and stakeholders before filing this plan with the planning department and then by not showing up at the goa oversight hearing on un plaza, and refusing to answer many basic questions about the plan, rec park has sent a regrettable and completely unacceptable message to community members, to farmers, vendors and patrons of the farmer market and entire community as well as this board of supervisors. it is obvious there is ongoing need for oversight and transparency on this project. i'm specifically calling for rec park and their partner the civic center community benefit district to attend this hearing that we are introducing and announcing today and lay out their plans for un plaza and plans for the farmer market. my constituent in the tenderloin, farmer, market and all the vendors farmers

they warn that failure to deliver in full will leave vast swathes of the north with victor gao torian rail infrastructure unfit for purpose. rishi sunak faces a political backlash, though, over reports he's considered axing the section between birmingham and manchester amid soaring costs . london mayor sadiq khan costs. london mayor sadiq khan says there are huge benefits to hs2 . hs2. >> i'm really pleased to have been invited by the cross—party transport for north to their board meeting this morning. we may be mayors from different regions, but we speak with one voice when we say we don't want cuts to high speed . two, we see cuts to high speed. two, we see the benefits of high speed. two in relation to economic growth, in relation to economic growth, in relation to increasing capacity, increasing connectivity, increasing in speed, and it means we can have the same sort of transport links that france has, that spain has, that france has, that spain has, that germany has. i'm worried that germany has. i'm worried that cutting high speed two will cause huge damage to london and the so

i will say colleagues, this is unprecedented in my 2 and a half years as chair of gao. this was the first meaningful opportunity the public had to learn about and comment on the pilot activation plan for un plaza and farmers market relocation. by refusing to work with community leaders and stakeholders before filing this plan with the planning department and then by not showing up at the goa oversight hearing on un plaza, and refusing to answer many basic questions about the plan, rec park has sent a regrettable and completely unacceptable message to community members, to farmers, vendors and patrons of the farmer market and entire community as well as this board of supervisors. it is obvious there is ongoing need for oversight and transparency on this project. i'm specifically calling for rec park and their partner the civic center community benefit district to attend this hearing that we are introducing and announcing today and lay out their plans for un plaza and plans for the farmer market. my constituent in the tenderloin, farmer, market and all the vendors farmers

in this year's update, however, gao noted that the biden-harris administrations continued commitment to making sure our nation works to remain ahead on ransom attackers. as always, though, more work can be done especially as personal agencies remain high value targets on foreign adverse -- for foreign adversaries like russia and china. mr. schneder why are federal agencies ripe targets for ransomware? >> nation state actors look at federal public sector organizations as having the high value assets and, therefore, they are high-value targets as well. they are seeking to get the information from those organizations. >> well, if that's so, mr. schneider, what steps can federal agencies, agency leaders take to mitigate their risk of falling victim to ransomware? >> ma'am, there are certainly defensive steps that they can put in place. my colleague mentioned zero trust which is a movement towards further hardening your infrastructure. i mentioned in my opening testimony implementing multifactor authentication, encrypting your own data and ensuring you have backups. they are in a lot of w

legislation added another 100 billion about 70 billion targets the buildout and as the chair noted the gao identified 130 across 15 agencies. with a lot of money available in any event it should be spent carefully and cost-effectively. first use options to distribute money. they spur the competition and the dollars and practice with the location subsidy costs by over 50%. the options are not possible at the moment because of problems in the rural development opportunity fund to the week eligibility rules the option would generate the most cost-effective outcomes. number two demand rigorous unbiased evaluations. it's vital to measure the impact of the subsidies that goes beyond merely verifying if they kept theirvi promises. which is important but it's not evaluation. the subsidized income on subsidized areas or whether the trendlines changed because of the subsidies to give you an understanding of whether the subsidyre made it different. as such should be built into the programs from the beginning. focus on broadband specification based on what people want and value, not the technology beh

as the chair noted the gao recently recognized over 130 broadband subsidy programs across 15 agencies many have said this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to brace the digital divide although a lot of money is available it's not instant and in the event should be spent carefully and cost-effectively. state and federal agency staff are dedicated and working hard i believe were mostly not going tewas necessary to get the biggt bang for the buck. research and experience suggests we should file the following guidelines. first, use competitive mechanism to distribute money. they spur competition structure dollars. i practice per location subsidy cost by over 50%. i note reverse auctions are not popular because of the develop an opportunity fund. those issues were due not to the auctions which worked well but the eligibility rules the route one auction will have the most cost effective outcome. to comment meant rigorous unbiased evaluations. it's a vital measure real world impact which goes beyond merely verifying for those who kept thr promises that is compliant which is important but n

the gao confirmed this capacity issue at a hearing earlier this year. we know in response to letters from chairman graves that the key fema personnel have been diverted by the secretary to assist with bringing people into the country illegally. fema's emergency food and shelter program originally created to help homeless americans, has now become a program to pay for illegal foreign nationals, residing in our communities and in our cities. i know i may disagree with many of my colleagues on the role of the federal government and what it should play when it comes to disasters but regardless, fema should not be used to advanced partisan policy objectives in and fema resources should not be diverted for other purposes unrelated to its mission. ultimately, all of this impacts readiness and ability to respond to disasters happening across our country from the maui wildfires to hurricane idalia and multiple flooding events. we can debate the role of the federal government but at the very least, we need to ensure fema is focused on its core mission because tha

we had these in gao and i wanted to take a moment to thank our city attorney david chui and his team for their work to secure these crucial settlements on behalf of our city. just last week the entire nation observed overdose awareness day and i was proud to participate in a rally on the steps of city hall in observance of overdose awareness day and while this certainly isn't a crisis that exists only in san francisco, i think we all know that one does not have to travel far from this building to see some of its devastating effects. securing these funds for our city will help insure we have the resources to address the issue in the short and long-term and i would just urge the administration and department of public health to make sure there is transparency in the use of these funds and to insure that the funds are spent on things that help us save lives, including overdose prevention efforts, wellness hubs, treatment on demand and programs that help people remain in recovery and i know we will talk about a lot of these issues later this month on the hearings called by supervisor ron

. >> i'll tryum to go back and lok at gao report and if i thought of that before i came in heat indexer i was -- i got that listening to your testimony. the other thing to ask is how is your staffing issues impact pacting your productivity? obviously it is or you wouldn't haveth brought it up. >> so staffing alone doesn't affect the productivity. we saw productivity decline quite significantly during the pandemic due to business processes work around. >> didn't you mention having shortage issues? >> correct. >> yourni productivity is up evn though there's knot not the adequate work force. >> there's productivity and production. total volume would be production. so again, productivity itself has many variables that go into it, new business processes implemented and new systems implemented, employees in training and then several things like that. productivity is not where it was pre-pandemic but it has rebound. >> what percentage is working remotely. >> org didpa the public sites ad field offices and almost all eligible for tele work. >> that wasn't my question. whater percentage of your

we had these in gao and i wanted to take a moment to thank our city attorney david chui and his team for their work to secure these crucial settlements on behalf of our city. just last week the entire nation observed overdose awareness day and i was proud to participate in a rally on the steps of city hall in observance of overdose awareness day and while this certainly isn't a crisis that exists only in san francisco, i think we all know that one does not have to travel far from this building to see some of its devastating effects. securing these funds for our city will help insure we have the resources to address the issue in the short and long-term and i would just urge the administration and department of public health to make sure there is transparency in the use of these funds and to insure that the funds are spent on things that help us save lives, including overdose prevention efforts, wellness hubs, treatment on demand and programs that help people remain in recovery and i know we will talk about a lot of these issues later this month on the hearings called by supervisor ron

i am going to show what the gao said abo pting that program on their hig list. nift has experienced significant challenges because fema is task with two goals. keeping flood insurance affordable and keeping the program solventislly. keepg affordable has led to rays that do noteflect the full risk of loss. this has also transferred flood risk from individual property owners to taxpayers. as of september 2022, fema's debt was $22.5 billion despite congress having cancel $16 billion in debt in october 2017. without reform, the conditions will likely worsen. what are your thoughts? guest: this has occurred every five years going back 25 years and will not change. the nfip seven ever fema attempted to raise rates to reflect what the market would charge, there was tremendous pushback from policyholders to the state delegation to congress which ultimately meant fema was told to not do that. every time fema needs to raise the borrowing limit or get more money, we were told we needed to be more sound in our pricing. what fema is currently doing is risk to point to -- ris

i am going to show what the gao said about putting that program on their high risk list.ys the nift has experienced significant challenges because ma is task with two goals. keeping flood insurance affordable aping the program solvent fiscally. keeping it affordable has led to rays that do not reflect the full risk of loss. this has also transferred flood risk from individual opty owners to taxpayers. as of september 2022, fema's debt was $22.5 billion despite congress having cancel $16 billion in debt in october 2017. without reform, the conditions will likely worsen. what are your thoughts? guest: this has occurred every five years going back 25 years and will not change. the nfip seven ever fema attempted to raise rates to reflect what the market would charge, there was tremendous pushback from policyholders to the state delegation to congress which ultimately meant fema was told to not do that. every time fema needs to raise the borrowing limit or get more money, we were told we needed to be more sound in our pricing. what fema is currently doing is risk to point to -

host: the gao puts the program of flood insurance on its high risk list year after year.say is experienced difficult challenges because ' tasked with twopeting goals, keeping it affordable and keeping the program solvent. it has led to premium rates that do n reflect the full loss that has transferred some of the financial burden for individual property owners to taxpayers. as of september, 2022, the debt was huge after having canceled $16 billion of debt in 2017. guest: that is changing. the flood insurance program that fema runs has always been a hybrid of an insurance program and a social welfare program. as you say, there are these two conflicting demands in federal law that say it should be run like a business, like your homeowner insurance reflection rates. the flood insurance should reflect the flood risk of your property and yet there is language in the statute of the insurance should be affordable. it's one of those vague terms that's scattered throughout the united states code. what fema has done since the program was created in 1968 is focused more on affordabi

gao and its science committee investigation found, during the trump administration, political influence derailed this important assessment from being finalized, and as the academy said, it is imperative that epa finalize this assessment. so, will you push to finalize this by the end of next year? so, key stakeholders across and beyond the federal government can incorporate it into health- protective policy that? >> we are currently reviewing the nas and the external peer reviews as we speak. we are moving on an expedited timeframe, along with looking at hundreds of other studies, as well, that we have to consider. we understand the sense of urgency. so, i can commit to you that we can put the necessary resources and personnel up for this issue to move along expeditiously. >> thank you, mr. administration. i yield back. >> thank you. i now recognize mr. mccormick for five minutes of questioning. >> thank you, my fellow marine, mr. chairman. thank you. mr. reagan, for your testimony, today, i also thank you. mr. reagan, i want to talk about epa's role in another part of the committee's di