Ron Arnold: ‘Shadow government’ may just be a synonym for badly lit bureaucracies

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Congress created the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution in 1998 as an add-on to the Udall Foundation, which it created six years earlier. Never heard of them? A lot of senators and representatives haven’t either. Let’s shine some light there.

If Congress defunded both of these obscure bureaucracies, it would save taxpayers $10 million a year — $3 million for the foundation, $7 million for the institute. Both are superfluous, nonessential boondoggles.

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