As if the first experience was not painful enough, taxpayers are once again being asked to cough up colossal funding to fix yet another government failure. The Obama Administration predicted that $93.7 million would be needed to fix the site; however, a contractor, recently hired by the administration, revealed that the costs would far exceed the original cost projection. According to a recent UK Daily Mail article, “House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa predicted in December that fixes to the site could be more costly than the Obama administration projected, potentially reaching a billion dollars or more.” Here we are once again leaving the American taxpayer footing a massive bill for yet another government failure.
