An Independent External Audit of the United States Federal Government
Washington forces every public company, nonprofit, and state that touches federal dollars to submit to an independent outside audit — yet exempts itself, and hasn't earned a clean audit opinion in 28 years. Make the government live by its own rule: an annual third-party audit that publishes the full balance sheet — unrecorded Social Security and Medicare obligations included — and a yearly, unfakeable measure of how far it stands from honest books.