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[quote=Anonymous]Understaffed federal agencies:

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/05/27/Veterinarian-Shortage-Leaves-US-Vulnerable-Animal-Illness-Outbreak

[quote]The GAO said the agency, as well as other components of USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services do not have enough animal doctors employed—there are about 624 at APHIS and 2,000 government wide.

The report said that to respond to a national outbreak, it would likely require an estimated 6,000 veterinarians. The auditors blasted the agency for not vetting its animal doctors and not preparing an emergency animal health plan.[/quote]

http://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/irs-funding-cuts-compromise-taxpayer-service-and-weaken-enforcement
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget has been cut by 17 percent since 2010, after adjusting for inflation, forcing the IRS to reduce its workforce, severely scale back employee training, and delay much-needed upgrades to information technology systems.  These steps, in turn, have weakened the IRS’s ability to enforce the nation’s tax laws and serve taxpayers efficiently, as the National Taxpayer Advocate, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the IRS Oversight Board, and the Government Accountability Office have all documented.  As seven former IRS commissioners from both Republican and Democratic administrations have written:  “Over the last fifty years, none of us has ever witnessed anything like what has happened to the IRS appropriations over the last five years and the impact these appropriations reductions are having on our tax system.”[2][/quote]

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/594730/
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In a Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general published a report Tuesday, Secret Service employees told inspectors that the agency is “hemorrhaging” employees because of the “severely understaffed” force. This has led to “inadequate training, fatigue, low morale, and attrition,” the inspectors wrote.

“The ability of USSS to satisfy its zero-fail mission of protecting the president and other protectees depends on its staffing health,” Chaffetz and Cummings wrote in their letter. “As the demands on the agency increase, its dedicated employees bear a larger burden. Overtime work and unpredictable hours contribute to already low morale. Low morale manifests in further attrition, and the problems grow worse.”[/quote]

https://www.afge.org/publication/understaffing-overcrowding-at-federal-prisons-causing-spike-in-officer-assaults/
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 Understaffing and overcrowding at federal prisons is causing a significant increase in inmate assaults on federal correctional workers, the leader of the union representing correctional officers said in testimony delivered today to the House Judiciary subcommittee that oversees the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

While the number of prison inmates in the 119 BOP-operated institutions has grown by 41% since fiscal 2000, the number of correctional workers has increased only 19%. As a result, the inmate-to-worker ratio has increased from 4 to 1 in fiscal 2000 to nearly 5 to 1 today.

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