The Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently held its inaugural committee titled, “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud,” during which massive fraud was exposed where billions in taxpayer dollars were lost. Various experts delivered testimony on the plan to prevent such fraud and save American tax dollars.
The subcommittee members explained how President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are working to rein in the federal government and cut wasteful spending. Furthermore, the administration seeks to close loopholes, improve payment systems, prevent fraudulent activity, and efficiently deploy taxpayer funds to work for the American people.
Dawn Royal, a certified welfare investigator and the Director of United Council on Welfare Fraud, spoke about how the Trump administration is pressing bureaucrats who are downplaying problems within payment systems. “Investigators have also found themselves at odds with the career bureaucrats who recite watered down facts about fraud in order to promote their political agendas,” she said.
Royal continued, “Specifically, we can look to the career bureaucrats who have historically claimed that the fraud rate in SNAP is less than 1%. The disregard for the value of integrity is evidenced by the less than 1/20 of 1% of the SNAP budget spent on the prevention, detection, and prosecution of fraud…Sadly, it is already apparent that career bureaucrats are not being totally transparent as they attempt to protect spending and broken programs.”
Haywood Talcove, the Chief Executive Officer of LexisNexis Risk Solutions for Government, addressed fraud and abuse of federal tax dollars and how such activity can be curbed by closing eligibility loopholes, improving identity verification, and refining payment tracking mechanisms. “There’s no excuse for the government to lag if we do the following. Number one, implement identity verification on the front end. Criminals should never receive a dime. Eliminate self-certification. No more honor system for billion-dollar programs. And continuous auditing. Keep verifying because criminals never stop adapting,” he said.
Furthermore, the Biden-Harris administration was called out for allegedly exacerbating fraud within the federal government. Stewart Whitson, the Senior Director of Federal Affairs at the Foundation for Government Accountability, said, “Congress can strengthen the Medicaid program through legislative action.”
Whitson continued, “That would include repealing Biden’s disastrous Medicaid streamlining rule, which ties the hands of states trying to remove ineligible release….Congress can help President Trump’s DOJ’s effort by ensuring that entrenched partisan bureaucrats don’t stand in the way of reform so much as DOJ’s team of 30 found hundreds of billions of dollars funneled into wasteful, fraudulent and flat-out insane projects. But they’ve only scratched the surface if this much fraud has been exposed in just a few weeks. Imagine what else is buried under layers of red tape and government excuses.”
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Moreover, Rep. William Timmons (R-SC) called out former President Joe Biden for his abuse of federal payment systems. “Joe Biden signed his name and wanted the American people to believe he had the ability to forgive $250 billion with a signature. Guess what? The Supreme Court ruled he did not. That’s our system of checks and balances. The President, Biden, he clearly was experiencing cognitive decline. He didn’t even have the ability to be charged with a crime as determined by his own Department of Justice. But he signs his name, and he thinks it gives a quarter of trillion dollars away, redistributes taxpayer dollars. It’s just crazy that we can’t come together to address the greatest national security threat facing this country, our debt,” he said.
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