---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 2010"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "2010"
heading: "Expenditures and audit of Trust Fund"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/2010"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarships"
---

# §2010. Expenditures and audit of Trust Fund

- (a) **Authorization of funding—** The [Secretary](/usc/20/2002.md?p=6) is authorized to pay to the [Foundation](/usc/20/2002.md?p=2) from the interest and earnings of the [fund](/usc/20/2002.md?p=3) such sums as the [Board](/usc/20/2002.md?p=1) determines are necessary and appropriate to enable the [Foundation](/usc/20/2002.md?p=2) to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
- (b) **Access to books, records, etc., by Government Accountability Office—** The activities of the [Foundation](/usc/20/2002.md?p=2) under this chapter may be audited by the Government Accountability Office under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States. The representatives of the Government Accountability Office shall have access to all books, accounts, records, reports, and files and all other papers, things, or property belonging to or in use by the [Foundation](/usc/20/2002.md?p=2), pertaining to such activities and necessary to facilitate the audit.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–642, § 11, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2279; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), July 7, 2004, 118 Stat. 814.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office” in two places.