1/27/26

With all the hoopla in Minnesota over defrauded taxpayers, costing the federal government billions, let’s not forget California with its own problems where Unemployment Insurance reportedly lost $30 billion to fraud during COVID and continues to lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The Electronic Benefit Transfer program of CalFresh and CalWORKS has been losing $251 million annually to fraud while MediCal made $1.9 billion in overpayments to providers. And let’s not forget the high-speed rail to nowhere now estimated to cost up to $128 billion versus the original budget in 2008 of $33 billion. And there’s no end in sight.