Fred Lucas
Since the Trump administration stops in the field of bilion errors of tax dollars, the government’s responsibility office is to report to the Congress on the waste of expenses in Medicaid, improper payments to the beneficiaries of federal programs and antiquated IT technology systems.
The Committee for Supervision of the Chamber and Government Responsibility conducts a hearing in the GAO case 2025 high risk list. The list and interrogation are more crucial when the initiative of government performance of President Donald Trump withdraw waste, fraud and exploit in federal agencies.
“Doge drew attention to the critical work of Gao in identifying billions of dollars lost in relation to the wrong payments made by programs such as Medicaid and the unemployed insurance,” President of House Supervision and responsibility James Comer, R-Ky. The upcoming interrogation on Tuesday, according to fragments obtained by Daily Signal. “And now Doge is taking action to solve the basic reasons for the wrong payments. Doge also recognized GAO reports on the need to modernize it for a more efficient and effective federal government. “
Comer said that the republican majority of the committee is excited about cooperation with the Doge Administration Trump initiative – run by Spacex, Tesla and the owner of X Elona Musk – to reduce the wrong payments and other waste.
“Americans want something more than another report that told them about all problems in Washington,” said Comer. “They want the ship to repair the ship. And that’s what President Trump, Doge and Republicans in the Congress for the American Nation do. “
General General Comptroller Gene DODARO, which is directed by Gao, testify to the report of the report to the house panel. Gao is an impartial supervisory agency in the legislative ward. The trial will start at 13:00 on Tuesday.
GAO publishes a high -risk list at the beginning of each up-to-date congress in order to update legislators in 38 areas, which are a financial risk of a loss of at least $ 1 billion for taxpayers.
“Despite GAO’s excellent reports, there is still a common waste, fraud and abuse in the entire federal government,” said Comer in the comments.
“Now, more than ever, Gao’s work tells us that we need more data, more tracking funds, more supervision and so, greater efficiency to know exactly where taxpayers are going,” they say his opening remarks.
However, Doge critics argued that legislators interested in limiting the prodigal expenses should rely on the existing GAO and general inspectors, and not on a completely up-to-date unit working in the White House.
“If President Trump was seriously promoted to promote government performance, he would prioritize to strengthen these existing independent supervisory authorities that reduce waste, fraud and abuse in government – including improper payments”, Donald Sherman, executive director of the liberal liberal citizens citizens citizens and ethics in Washington, he said Supervision subcommittee on government performance.
“He could issue an executive ordinance managing his office and federal agencies to quickly implement thousands of open GAO recommendations and general inspectors in the executive department,” said Sherman.
In a press release of February 12, the White House called The New York Times for claiming that there is no evidence for “broad claims” of fraud in the expenses of the Federal Government, pointing to GAO report Published in April last year, it was stated: “No area of ​​the federal government is resistant to fraud. We estimated that the federal government may lose $ 233 billion to $ 521 billion a year for fraud. “
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Fred Lucas is the main correspondent of the message and manager of the investigative reporting project for Daily Signal. He is the author of “The myth of suppressing voters: The left’s assault to clean elections. “
