It makes sense that you don’t belong to a party. Hating Trump is not a party - yet. If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. Your post was ignorant. They are finding more waste and fraud every day and the fraudsters are being prosecuted. It will take years to find it all. That is the mess Democrats make any time they are in the majority.
He is not wasting money. Nobody in the Trump camp is complaining about building up our depleted military and taking care of our veterans and finding fraud and waste in government spending. He is making more back for us than he could ever spend.
Trump haters shake in their shoes every time he is successful in Making America Great Again. Every success is another nail in their coffin.
LOL. We have business people in our administration. Not the Democrat career politicians that have never operated a business and don’t know beans from bs about the operation of a country like ours.
You’ve brought up another excellent point. Asking people who don’t understand how the federal government works to reform government spending was a stupid idea. The government isn’t a business and shouldn’t automatically be run like one.
The elected officials are supposed to be serving the people. That’s what we elect them for. To take care of the business of the American people. Keeping us safe and creating an environment so that we can do our own business as the capitalists we are.
Democrats think they are elected so they can be served and dictate to the people how to live their lives. like kings and queens. They treat the coffers like their own personal piggy bank, I guess that gets your approval?
A politician that’s never hired a single person or operated a business, doesn’t know the first thing about how to run a country like ours.
Democrat politicians would be fired if they were hired to manage a business and they managed it like they manage their elected office.
No disagreement here. But at the very least, if you’re going to create an entire new government department whose job it is to reform government spending, assign people who know how our government works.
Recent reports from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) indicate that approximately $4.3 billion in Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) spending was flagged for eligibility concerns, part of a larger sum of $5.8 billion in total “questionable” payments identified in fiscal year 2024.
$4.3 billion in PBRA spending that involved potential eligibility issues.
$1.5 billion tied to tenant-based rental assistance (TBRA) payments with eligibility concerns.
Tens of thousands of potentially ineligible tenants, including nearly
30,000 deceased individuals and over 9,000 non-citizens.
In 2018, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the federal government as a whole lost hundreds of billions annually to fraud and improper payments, including within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs
It’s not an opinion and I’m not a lib. The administration cut funding to programs they disagree with ideologically and increased funding to programs they agree with. The result is more spending overall, not less. Only a fool would believe their goal is less spending.
I don’t hate Trump, no matter how much you need me to. Fighting fraud is good, I’ve never said otherwise. And I didn’t say they were wasting money, I said their goal is to advance their agenda, not reduce spending. When this administration leaves office it will not have reduced federal spending in any meaninful way. Count on it.
That is alluding to an audit in 2016 before Ben Carson served as Trump’s U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development From 2017-21.
Audit Report Number: 2017-FO-0005 Date: March 1, 2017
HUD’s Fiscal Years 2016 and 2015 (Restated) Consolidated Financial Statements Audit (Reissued)
That was under Obama.
What We Audited and Why
In accordance with the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, as amended, we are required to annually audit the consolidated financial statements of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD reissued its fiscal years 2016 and 2015 (restated) consolidated financial statements due to pervasive material errors that we identified. Our objective was to express an opinion on the fairness of HUD’s consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) applicable to the Federal Government. This report presents our reissued independent auditor’s report on HUD’s fiscal years 2016 and 2015 (restated) consolidated financial statements, including an update to our report on HUD’s internal controls.
What We Found
The total amounts of errors corrected in HUD’s notes and consolidated financial statements were $516.4 billion and $3.4 billion, respectively. There were several other unresolved audit matters, which restricted our ability to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to express an opinion. These unresolved audit matters relate to (1) the Office of General Counsel’s refusal to sign the management representation letter, (2) HUD’s improper use of cumulative and first-in, first-out budgetary accounting methods of disbursing community planning and development program funds, (3) the $4.2 billion in nonpooled loan assets from Ginnie Mae’s stand-alone financial statements that we could not audit due to inadequate support, (4) the improper accounting for certain HUD assets and liabilities, and (5) material differences between HUD’s subledger and general ledger accounts. This audit report contains 11 material weaknesses, 7 significant deficiencies, and 5 instances of noncompliance with applicable laws and regulations.