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Politics & The Nation A13 Obama to order federal agencies to compile ‘do not pay list’
checks not sent to dead people, among others
by Ed O’Keefe President Obama will order
federal agencies Friday to estab- lish a national “do not pay list” to prevent the government from
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paying benefits, contracts, grants and loans to ineligible people or organizations, according to sen- ior administration officials. The moves are part of a series
to cut government waste and fraud and come amid calls for more fiscal restraint from Repub- licans and moderate Democrats. A memo Obama is set to sign
Friday instructs the Treasury De- partment, Office of Management and Budget and General Services
Administration to establish a government-wide database to en- sure agencies no longer send gov- ernment checks to dead people, delinquent or jailed contractors and other debarred or suspended firms, said officials familiar with the memo and not authorized to speak on the record. About 20,000 separate payments total- ing $182 million were sent to dead people in the last three years, according to OMB.
The administration also will announce plans on Friday for the Centers for Medicare and Medic- aid Services to use an online fraud-detection program devel- oped by federal watchdogs who are tracking the economic stimu- lus program. CMS made $65 bil- lion in erroneous payments in fis- cal year 2009, and officials expect the tool will help the agency keep closer tabs on medical providers by conducting deeper back-
ground checks. Friday’s announcements follow
several other cost-cutting orders from Obama. Federal agencies must find ways to trim at least 5 percent from their budgets and $8 billion worth of federal build- ing costs. The White House also wants the Air Force to renegoti- ate costly cellphone plans and ex- pects agencies to scale back the amount of time and money re- quired to hire new federal work-
ers.
Obama deserves credit for spending political capital on the “unsexy” issue of government management, Brookings Institu- tion scholar Stephen Hess said. “Of all the things that presi- dents don’t get credit for, one would be managing the executive branch,” Hess said. Paul Light, a New York Univer-
sity professor and an expert on federal bureaucracy, said the ad- ministration is using the orders to quickly push spending reforms as Congress stalls. “I think it’s giving Democrats
at least some shelter against the anti-government sentiment out there,” Light said.
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Republicans want deeper spending cuts and are pushing to freeze Congressional budgets and federal worker salaries. Some GOP lawmakers also want the In- ternal Revenue Service to collect $3 billion in unpaid taxes owed by delinquent federal workers. Chris Edwards, a vocal critic of
government spending who edits the Cato Institute’s Downsizing
Government.org, said current proposals don’t go far enough. “I don’t really care whether
President Obama or Republicans have their heart in these spend- ing restraints, but it clearly shows they both have their fingers to the wind, and that they understand there’s a new mood in the coun- try,” Edwards said.
ed.okeefe@washingtonpost.com
Times Square bombing suspect indicted
by Greg Miller
The suspect in the attempted bombing of Times Square re- ceived $12,000 from the Pakistani Taliban to carry out the plot, ac- cording to a federal indictment released Thursday that formally charges Faisal Shahzad with re- ceiving training and support from the militant group. The indictment includes 10
separate charges, double the number of counts in the initial criminal complaint that was filed against Shahzad three days after a Nissan Pathfinder packed with ex- plosives was left smoldering in one of the busiest intersections in New York. “The facts alleged in this in-
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dictment show that the Pakistani Taliban facilitated Faisal Shah- zad’s attempted attack on Amer- ican soil,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a written statement. The new charges accuse Shah- zad, 30, of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, of being armed with a high-tech 9- millimeter rifle and of commit- ting an act of terrorism “tran- scending national boundaries.” According to the document, he re- ceived training in the Pakistani region of Waziristan in December from “explosive trainers affiliated with Tehrik-e-Taliban,” an alter- nate name for the militant group. Six of the counts against Shah- zad carry maximum penalties of life in prison. For two of the charges, a life term is the mini- mum. The indictment was issued by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York. The document offers little new information about the plot, aside from details of alleged payments of $5,000 and $7,000 Shahzad is said to have received in two trans- actions from a person in Pakistan affiliated with the Pakistani Tali- ban. The first payment was col- lected Feb. 25 in Massachusetts, and the second about two weeks later in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. U.S. officials declined to identi- fy the alleged accomplice or to say whether he was in custody in Pa- kistan. Three U.S. residents suspected of helping funnel money to Shah- zad were arrested by federal au- thorities in Massachusetts and Maine last month on immigration violations. A Justice Department official said none of the three had been charged in connection with the Times Square plot. Shahzad, a Pakistani native who lived in the United States for nearly a decade before becoming a U.S. citizen, was taken into cus- tody May 3 at John F. Kennedy International Airport while trying to board a flight to Dubai.
millergreg@washpost.com
Staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.
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