August 7, 2025

Montgomery County Republican Party was fotunate to have State Auditor Dave Boliek as a guest speaker at Tuesday's (August 5^th) Meeting. State Auditor Dave Boliek gave an update on DMV Audit, NCORR (North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resilience) Audit and general direction of the State Auditor's office. Key points:

DMV

• Evaluate DMV’s Organizational Placement: Policymakers should consider establishingDMV as an autonomous agency or authority with direct control over its budget, strategic planning, and operations. DMV currently generates 30% of DOT’s revenues but accounts for only 3% of expenditures, while lacking sufficient operational authority.

• Recomend moving DMV out of DOT (DOT uses DMV excess profit as "personal ATM"

NCORR (Governor Cooper)

• Took 4 years before the first nail was hammered

• The complete audit will be released in September

Audit shedding light on NC disaster-response failures set to release July 1

There are still many unanswered questions about why the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR) ended up over $300 million in the hole while tasked with building homes for victims of Hurricanes Florence and Matthew in eastern North Carolina.

Nearly a decade later, over 750 homeowners are still awaiting a home to go “home” to.

Thune’s bid to change rules for nominees faces GOP opposition

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) faces a difficult test in rallying GOP colleagues to change the Senate’s rules to speed up the confirmation of approximately 140 Trump nominees.

Democrats have refused to confirm a single civilian Trump appointee by voice vote or unanimous consent during his first six-and-a-half months in office.  

But Thune still needs to sell a handful of members on the change, including Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), who aren’t yet on board with a proposal to weaken individual senators’ ability to hold up nominees.