While the liberal media previously scoffed at the necessity of the Department of Government Accountability (DOGE), suggesting that the federal government wasn’t losing a significant amount of money through fraud, CBS’s 60 Minutes did something astounding on Sunday night: admit the truth. Cecilia Vega actually spoke with a former official with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) who suspected the U.S. was approaching nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer money lost to fraud.
“It`s the most popular f-word in Washington: fraud,” Vega quipped at the top of the segment. After noting the weeding out fraud was part of the mandate for DOGE, she questioned: “Is DOGE looking in the right places?”
What she proceeded to roll out was an explainer on how the fraud being carried out against the American taxpayer was “complex, pervasive and being carried out by transnational criminal organizations often using stolen identities to target U.S. taxpayers -- costing the government hundreds of billions of dollars a year.” Prefaced with the tone that DOGE didn’t know what it was doing.
Linda Miller, a former official with GAO, commended Elon Musk and DOGE for “finally” acknowledging that fraud was a problem that’s not adequately being addressed, but argued that disagreeing with where the money was spent did not constitute “fraud."
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