When an administration tries to improve, Congress ignores them. “We spent a lot of time talking about putting the ‘management’ back in the Office of Management and Budget,” says Mitch Daniels, who served as its director under George W. Bush. “It was the right thing to do to evaluate every program and rate it whether it was working or not, but Congress in the end ignored it. It didn’t matter if it was working or not. They were funding it whether it was working or not.”40
