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👀If you see something, say something! New Yorkers vulnerable to billions in fraud due to NY state's lax safeguards and oversight gaps. Thx to @Connor_R_Hansen @FoxBusiness for breaking 📺Full report collab w/ @SFOF_States: bit.ly/4yUftoS
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$14.5B in New York Medicaid home care payments with no proof the care was delivered.
Plus ~$11B in improper pandemic unemployment payments.
Our review with @open_the_books shows how weak the state’s fiscal safeguards really are.
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@EricMackNews Saw your 'ghost students' piece. FYI - Students” Still Collecting Fraudulent Federal, State Aid, by @open_the_books openthebooks.substack.com/p/…
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Billions paid. Basic verification missing.
@FoxBusiness covered our new report on New York’s oversight failures, and how they leave taxpayer dollars vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse.
Taxpayers deserve answers.
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🚨 An October surprise in New York? Tens of billions in taxpayer dollars exposed to weak or missing verification.
Our new report with @open_the_books lays out the findings. The numbers demand answers.
Watch @FoxBusiness break it down.
Today @POTUS signed the Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act, making agencies report projects $1B+ over budget or 5 years delayed. The feds will post them online for taxpayer, Congressional accountability. A win for transparency we cover in more detail here: openthebooks.substack.com/p/…
The law, spearheaded by @SenJoniErnst, in the House by @RepMMM, was a bipartisan win years in the making! To bring sunlight right away, we'll share 5 new boondoggles ID's by Ernst this week!
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We have more on the 2nd round of "pocket rescissions," types of spending Open the Books has highlighted for years now. openthebooks.substack.com/p/…
Wasteful funding? Rescinded.
We will use every fiscal tool at our disposal to deliver savings for the American people.
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Billions spent. Projects years late. Taxpayers left in the dark.
New bipartisan measures target previously undisclosed federal spending and massive government projects that blow past budgets and deadlines.
@open_the_books Rachel O’Brien calls some of the previously hidden transactions the “Wild West of spending.”
1/2: Chinese researchers working on "psychological warfare and information warfare" getting the resources and imprimatur of U of Michigan? Seems unthinkable, but @jsolomonReports @JustTheNews has a jump scare: justthenews.com/videos/risks… @OffThePress1
2/2: Our research shows it's tough to exhaustively track the extent to which adversarial nations are benefiting from US-funded research & university infrastructure, until it's too late or shows up in criminal proceedings. openthebooks.com/state-of-th…
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What would Medicare for All actually cost and what could it mean for patients?
@open_the_books Rachel O’Brien joined The National News Desk's @janjeffcoat to break down estimates showing trillions in additional federal spending and the debate over taxes, provider payments and whether increased demand could lead to longer waits for care.
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Taxpayers deserve to know when government projects run billions over budget and years behind schedule.
@RepMMM and I are working to expose these billion-dollar boondoggles and bring some Iowa common sense to Washington. 🐷💸
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Stop the billion-dollar boondoggles: Washington spends, you get the bill | OP-ED by @RepMMM and @SenJoniErnst trib.al/AFtesUZ
MORE LOANS GONE WRONG: @SBA potentially made $11.5M in improper payments, then reviewed 13 other failed loans so late the statute of limitations expired—another $5.4M. Laws and guardrails are good, but program design and implementation are critical.
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A huge week for transparency, after @POTUS signed the Stop Secret Spending Act last week!
@SenJoniErnst
@RepMMM
@SenatorHassan
@RepJimmyPanetta
@SenGaryPeters
@RepBarryMoore
I’m excited to see my bipartisan Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act with @RepMMM pass the House and head to President Trump’s desk to be signed into law!
The more than $200 billion in cost overruns on California’s high-speed rail project, now defunded by the Trump admin, underscores the urgent need for greater transparency and accountability in how taxpayer dollars are spent. 🐷🚂
BOONDOGGLE WEEK: House will vote on the Senate-passed Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act from
@SenJoniErnst to require reporting on projects >$1B over cost estimate or 5+ yrs behind schedule. So we're covering a boondoggle a day in support! #3 has left taxpayers saying Aloha to 💰⤵️
Honolulu Rail cost estimate was $5.1B, a new @CivilBeat story suggests the total could be $10.19 billion or 2X. They were supposed to finish 20mile extension in 2020, already have eliminated 2 new stations.
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This isn’t the only gravy train taking taxpayers for a ride. 🚂
We’ll expose all of them after Congress passes my Billion Dollar Boondoggle bill this week!
Stay tuned. 🐷
🚨 Welcome to the $15 billion California High Speed Rail to nowhere:
Since 2008 California has spent $15 billion and has not connected a single city or laid a single track. It is now projected to cost more than $200 billion to finish despite being proved nearly impossible to complete.
In 2008 China also announced a high-speed rail and has now connected the entire country with over 30,000 miles while California has connected 0 miles.
Over $500 million has gone to contractors who could not work, homes are currently being built on the alignment, and farmers will lose their farms. In this video I go down the alignment of the high speed rail exposing the failures and confront the legislators in charge of this absolute disaster of a project.
A prime example of fraud, waste and abuse of the taxpayer dollar.
BOONDOGGLE WEEK: The House will vote on the Senate-passed Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act from @SenJoniErnst to require reporting on projects >$1B over cost estimate or 5+ yrs behind schedule. So we're covering a boondoggle a day in support! #2 has left taxpayers afloat⤵️
Part of the Artemis missions, NASA budgeted $7B on rocket boosters. Latest price tag? $13.1B. A stunning $6.1B (87%) over budget. Mismanagement & spaced out contractors mean it still "hasn’t established an official cost estimate” for the mission. bit.ly/4yJH7VX
