House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) discussed a report that unimplemented Inspector General recommendations by the Obama administration could save taxpayers $67 billion, nearly 80 percent of the $85 billion in automatic cuts called for by sequestration, Tuesday night on Fox News.
"They're criminal investigators," Issa said of the IGs. "They primarily look at waste and fraud from a criminal standpoint, but of course along the way they find lots of money, and that's really what they do. There's about 12,000 men and women, about a $2 billion budget throughout all of government, but they are the nonpartisans that are working for you within government."
Issa called the ignored reports "a crying shame" while pointing out that this was not the first White House to ignore its inspectors.
"If you took a third of this and said we're going to get rid of that, what starts to happen, of course, is everything that you really treasure that somebody is telling you would be cut wouldn't have to be cut," Issa said. "The government still has to go on a diet, but this $67 billion is known."
