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On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:23:01 -0500
-hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:

> You'd better read your cites more carefully.
>=20
> Because the fraud being discussed there is by Fed vendors &
> customers, not by employees on their timecards.

Again:

The Biden-Harris Administration exacerbated an already massive improper pay=
ment problem by expanding faulty welfare programs without proper oversight =
mechanisms in place and by failing to hold America=E2=80=99s bureaucracy ac=
countable.

Stewart Whitson, the Senior Director of Federal Affairs at the Foundation f=
or Government Accountability, described how policies pushed by the Biden Ad=
ministration exacted a cost on Americans: =E2=80=9CCongress can strengthen =
the Medicaid program through legislative action. That would include repeali=
ng Biden=E2=80=99s disastrous Medicaid streamlining rule, which ties the ha=
nds of states trying to remove ineligible release=E2=80=A6.Congress can hel=
p President Trump=E2=80=99s DOJ=E2=80=99s effort by ensuring that entrenche=
d partisan bureaucrats don=E2=80=99t stand in the way of reform so much as =
DOJ=E2=80=99s team of 30 found hundreds of billions of dollars funneled int=
o wasteful, fraudulent and flat-out insane projects. But they=E2=80=99ve on=
ly 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.=E2=80=9D

Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) slammed former President Joe Biden for
abusing federal payment systems and contributing to the dangerously
high national debt: =E2=80=9CJoe Biden signed his name and wanted the Ameri=
can
people to believe he had the ability to forgive $250 billion with a
signature. Guess what? The Supreme Court ruled he did not. That=E2=80=99s o=
ur
system of checks and balances. The President, Biden, he clearly was
experiencing cognitive decline. He didn=E2=80=99t 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=E2=80=99s just crazy that =
we
can=E2=80=99t come together to address the greatest national security threat
facing this country, our debt.=E2=80=9D
Subcommittee Chairwoman Greene: =E2=80=9CMr. Talcove, do private sector com=
panies have a lower rate of improper payments than the federal government?=
=E2=80=9D

Mr. Talcove: =E2=80=9CYes. The fraud rate, that the criminals are taking ad=
vantage of the public sector is around 20%. In the private sector, it=E2=80=
=99s around 3%. And it=E2=80=99s really because the tools that are used in =
the private sector, aren=E2=80=99t used in the public sector. Front end ide=
ntity verification, self-certification, and then finally, making sure that =
individuals are who they say they are. If we start using these tools, you w=
ill see the fraud rate go down dramatically because for the most part, this=
 fraud isn=E2=80=99t taking place by individuals. It=E2=80=99s individuals =
whose identities have been stolen on the dark web.=E2=80=9D

Subcommittee Chairwoman Greene: =E2=80=9CWe would say the private companies=
 that pretty much have to exist on a 20% profit rate. They can=E2=80=99t co=
ntinue to be successful if they were to allow their customers data to be so=
mething like that and used by criminals. However, the federal government, w=
ho can continue printing checks and continue an operation, never fixes its =
problems because it can=E2=80=99t be forced to go out of business. Would yo=
u agree with that, Yes or no?=E2=80=9D

Mr. Talcove: =E2=80=9CYes.=E2=80=9D

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) blasted DOGE Subcommittee Democrats for defendi=
ng schemes to defraud American taxpayers. He also pointed out that self-ver=
ification systems at local doctors=E2=80=99 offices are more secure than fe=
deral payment systems.