In a clip posted to Facebook on March 4, 2025, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene discussed the massive scale of fraud identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). She explained the Medicaid and Social Security fraud rings the department has uncovered. She also spoke to the waste of so-called green energy.
“I just listened to one of my colleagues talk about Medicaid. The truth is, for people watching at home, your Medicaid benefits cannot get cut unless the governor of your state and the state cuts your benefits. That’s the real truth. Republicans, here in Washington, here in Congress, we are not taking away anyone’s Medicaid benefits,” Greene began. ” As a matter of fact, we’re trying to cut out improper payments. We’re trying to cut out fraud. At my DOGE subcommittee, I had a hearing just two weeks ago where we talked about improper payments.”
“It is unbelievable, and I’m sure you would agree, …that the amount of money that’s being paid to dead people, to foreigners, to criminals to terrorists, is amounting in the billions and billions of dollars every single year,” she added. “That’s what Democrats and Republicans should be agreeing on. We should be able to come together and say, let’s stop this immediately.”
“Another thing that I find outrageous is that Democrats under the Biden administration passed $7.5 billion in spending to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations all over the country, whether Americans wanted them or not, but only eight of these charging stations even got built,” MTG added. ” I think that should have been in your top 25 list because where’s that money? Honestly, where is that money? That’s a great question.”
“Some other things that I’d like to bring up to you here is, GOA estimates that total fraud in these programs for unemployment insurance, and you were just talking about it during the pandemic is at least $60 billion Americans all over the country will never forget that Democrats shut our country down, shut our businesses down,” she said in her fiery remarks. ” People got fired, their churches was closed, all their rights were taken away. And $60 billion $60 billion from the Department of Labor. The Department of Labor has still not developed an anti-fraud strategy, even though $60 billion is missing.”
“Also the Medicare program and scale of Medicare spending is innately high risk. With the program spending an estimated $1 trillion in 2024 of that in fiscal year 2024 we saw roughly, I’ll go back to improper payments again. 54 point 3 billion in improper payments,” she explained. ” And we have Democrats crying over Elon Musk, are you kidding me? The American people? The polling is out. 72% Democrats and Republicans support Doge. Support it. 72% they are not upset about anything that Elon Musk is doing.”
“As a matter of fact, they’re happy. They want their 50 they want all this, these improper payments, all of this waste. They want it back,” the representative said. ” Now, here’s what’s really interesting to me, despite this significant progress made since GOA’s 2023, high risk update, thank you for that. USPS remains unable to fund its services and employee obligations. That’s outrageous.”
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“Private companies have to have to be able to fund everything they do, but the United States Postal Service still can’t do it. Now, the big one, the big one, the Department of Defense, financial management, first appeared on the High Risk List in 1995 1995 Hey, I graduated from high school in 1992 that’s a long time ago.” she stated. ” Now it remains on this list. 28 years later, 28 years later, Congress hasn’t fixed this.”
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“The Department of Defense hasn’t fixed this. And last year, the Pentagon, with a budget of around $850 billion failed. Failed, its seventh straight audit. What are we doing? What are we doing? This is not this,” she concluded. “We should be at the most bipartisan time in history where Republicans and Democrats can come together and say, the American people’s money is being stolen. It is being lost. It is outright treason to treat the American people this way.”
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