Government Performance Website May Not Meet Congressional Requirements

Without additional funding, the Office of Management and Budget may be unable to meet the October 2012 deadline Congress gave it for producing an easily searchable public website detailing the performance of all government programs, an administration official said.

That website, Performance.gov, is funded through the federal electronic-government fund. The fiscal 2011 appropriation for that fund was cut from $35 million to $8 million in the frantic bartering between the Obama administration and House Republicans that averted a government shutdown in April.

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra listed Performance.gov as one of a group of programs his office would "maintain . . . at their current levels of operation" following the funding cut, but that would receive "no enhancements or other development to address needs for improvement," in a letter to Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., chairman of the Homeland Security subcommittee on Federal Financial Management.