Well, the office doesn't have sufficient support, not when performance audits have been reduced in half, not when almost all non-COVID-related audits have been put off, and indeed the outgoing Auditor General said they'd probably need another year to deal with the COVID-related expenditures alone.
Thus, we have a government right now that is spending half a trillion dollars and the Auditor General is asking for $11 million.
In regard to half a trillion dollars in spending, $11 million constitutes a rounding error. What's the holdup?