Waste, Fraud and Abuse
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Prescription for fraud? GAO finds serious abuses in Obamacare exchanges
Remember when Americans were told that the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) would lower health care costs and that if you liked your doctor, you could keep her? How things have changed over the past 15 years. Health care costs continue to rise faster
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Food stamp data show thousands of liquor, smoke shops are approved for EBT, raising fraud concerns
More than 5,000 liquor and smoke shops were approved as retailers under SNAP, raising fraud concerns. There's no way to determine how much alcohol, tobacco, or other "non-compliant" goods have been sold nationwide. At least 20 states refuse to share data with the feds.
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U.S. Comptroller who spent decades trying to shrink government has big ambitions for Trump
Walker said that the biggest savings are to be made in eliminating duplication, waste, fraud, and payments to dead people and foreigners in major entitlement programs. He also thinks President Trump can accomplish that goal.
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USPS spent $110 million reprocessing mail they had misrouted over seven months in 2020
A new inspector general report details the basic workplace failures that have resulted in costly efforts to redirect misrouted mail.
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Cleveland councilman arrested after indictment for allegedly taking money from federal program
Johnson for eight years allegedly sought to be reimbursed by a federal program for constituent duties he didn't perform.
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FAA grants $1.2M in COVID relief to airport for Martha's Vineyard's rich, famous and connected
The island airport seasonally receives the private jets of streams of politicians, members of the media elite, and celebrities.
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HHS to reopen barely used $300 million adolescent migrant 'overflow facility'
The facility was used for just one month in the summer of 2019.
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Federal government spent nearly $80 million funding the shuttered Kennedy Center in 2020
Just after receiving coronavirus stimulus funding, the center furloughed the majority of its employees.
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NIH spending $2.5 million attempting to make adults less nervous about the dentist
It is the largest NIH grant that has ever been given to Temple University's Dental school
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Fish and Wildlife Service spent $13.5 million on yacht facilities for luxury marinas
The agency spent millions building out luxury marinas.
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Pentagon spent $174 million on drones for Afghan army that now can’t be accounted for
A large portion of the Taliban's armory is comprised of missing and abandoned American weapons given to Afghan forces
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USDA spends $2.5 million attempting to create 'superior' new varieties of potato
There are 200 varieties of potato in the U.S.
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NIH spent $7 million developing a 'smart toilet' that videotapes its users
The technology was developed by Stanford researchers to help with early cancer detection.