The news comes as the Washington Post reports the Bush administration has taken no action to fill congressionally-mandated independent positions to oversee how the bailout is used. A deadline for the first bailout monitoring report has already passed. The Treasury has already committed $290 billion in taxpayer money so far. Eric Thorson, the Treasury Department’s inspector general, said, “It’s a mess. I don’t think anyone understands right now how we’re going to do proper oversight of this thing.”