PART: Finally, Someone Else Gets It

At OMB Watch, we're pretty accustomed to working on issues that go under the radar. Such has long been the case with PART, the White House's tool for assessing program performance (supposedly). We have been telling anyone who will listen that PART is a political tool, not a measurement of "results" or "effectiveness," which the White House uses to justify lousy budget choices and to send management signals to agencies that would take government programs in the wrong directions. Now someone else has come across PART and realized what a load of propaganda it is. Check out ThinkProgress.org's truthcheck of some of the assessments in this year's PART.
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