Congress Told $2.7 Trillion Was Improperly Paid Out Over the Last 20 Years – IOTW Report

Congress Told $2.7 Trillion Was Improperly Paid Out Over the Last 20 Years

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On Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) held her DOGE subcommittee hearing and announced it has discovered that over the past 20 years, the U.S. government has squandered $2.7 trillion on improper payments. Just last year alone, the government handed out $170 billion to individuals who were deceased, criminals, or otherwise ineligible for government programs.

Even more alarming, the government made $44 billion in payments with no clear record of where the money actually went — officials simply don’t know.

Medicare and Medicaid are the biggest culprits when it comes to these improper payments. The Biden administration lost a staggering $764 billion due to a combination of inaccurate record-keeping, bureaucratic incompetence, and outright fraud. More

9 Comments on Congress Told $2.7 Trillion Was Improperly Paid Out Over the Last 20 Years

  1. Elected officials are supposed to be responsible custodians of tax payers money.
    Otherwise they should be expelled for ethics violations and criminal charges for the ring leaders.

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  2. Where dafuq was the GAO?
    Prosecute every one of those cocksuckers – even if you have to dig em up or un-retire them.

    And the money wasn’t “improperly paid out” it was stolen.

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