Indian Health Service Government Accountability Office Form

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under the Constitution Congress has the power to tax and to spend and within those powers are congress's responsibility to tax and spend wisely and make decisions on how best to prioritize finite Federal resources among all the programs and policies implemented across the United States and the world it is also congress's responsibility to conduct oversight of how federal funds are spent and to hold agencies accountable for their spending and their prioritization of programs and policies this hearing will focus on the president's fiscal year 2024 budget request for the Indian Health Service and how best to allocate funds to the IHS and consider what changes need to be made IHS like every other agency is accountable to the American people and particularly to the tribal communities and Native people that they serve through treaties and federal statutes the federal government has assumed the responsibility of providing health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives and IHS is the prim