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Help Wanted: Chief Financial Officers for Washington
The last Senate-confirmed controller at the Office of Management and Budget left at the end of the Obama administration. There still isn’t one.
The broken Senate confirmation process means too many vacancies and too little oversight.
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It’s hard to imagine a major corporation going without a chief financial officer for any extended period, but this is the stark reality for the federal government.
The last Senate-confirmed controller at the Office of Management and Budget left office almost seven years ago at the end of the Obama administration. This is the person responsible for developing and implementing an administration’s financial management policies and overseeing federal chief financial officers across the government.