Obama Administration Receives Golden Fleece Award

The Obama Administration
January 2017
Golden Fleece Award

ARRA News Service: Every year, Congress appropriates trillions of dollars to fund the federal government, and every year the federal government wastes portions of these funds in unconscionable ways. Two years ago, congressman French Hill (R-AR) decided to bring back the Golden Fleece Award in an attempt to increase accountability for every single government program.

Originally introduced by U.S. Senator William Proxmire (D-WI) in March 1975, the Golden Fleece Award highlighted the most frivolous and wasteful uses oftaxpayers’ dollars.

Yesterday, Congressman Hill announced awarded the Golden Fleece Award for January, 2017 to the entire Obama Administration. A recent report by the American Action Forum found that the administration’s last minute environmental and other regulations would cost the U.S. economy $6 billion.

“Fortunately, the administration that has actively imposed billions in unnecessary regulatory costs on hardworking Americans is now taking its final breaths,” said Hill. “Today, we voted on an important measure to prevent similar actions in the future, and with an estimated $6 billion cost for the U.S. economy, this last-ditch rulemaking effort must be opposed, reviewed, and rescinded by the new administration to ensure that we put an end to these types of last-ditch efforts by a departing administration.”

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