Trump signed an executive order to enhance federal data access for detecting waste and fraud.

Investing.com — President Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday, directing federal agency heads to provide full and immediate access to unclassified records, data, and systems. The purpose of this order is to detect and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse within the government.

The order outlines several steps to improve inter-agency data sharing and remove unnecessary barriers to federal employees' access to government data. The goal is to enhance the government's ability to identify overpayments and fraud while eliminating bureaucratic redundancies and inefficiencies. Agency heads are required to ensure that federal officials have complete and prompt access to all unclassified agency records and data, facilitating both intra-agency and inter-agency sharing and consolidation. The order mandates the cancellation or modification of agency guidelines that hinder data sharing within 30 days.