{"id":283425,"date":"2025-06-09T10:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/what-waste-fraud-and-abuse\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:37:05","slug":"what-waste-fraud-and-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=283425","title":{"rendered":"What waste, fraud and abuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>These days, it\u2019s fashionable for right-wing Republicans to accuse those who disagree with their extremism as being Marxists, socialists or communists. Of course, they are using these words as epithets, not based on their actual definition. <\/p>\n<p>Also, it\u2019s fashionable for right-wing Republicans to claim they\u2019re not cutting the federal budget, they\u2019re only cutting waste, fraud and abuse, the multi-purpose epithets to cover any program they hate.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the evidence that DOGE has been wielding its surgical chainsaw against waste, fraud and abuse? Here\u2019s what an insider had to say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were \u201crelatively nonexistent\u201d during his short time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,\u201d Sahil Lavingia told NPR\u2019s Juana Summers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*snip*<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShortly after the interview was published online, Lavingia got an email. Just 55 days into his work at DOGE, his access had been revoked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump Ministry of Propaganda can\u2019t stand the truth, it seems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/06\/02\/nx-s1-5417994\/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit\">Insider admits no waste, fraud and abuse at the VA and gets fired<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, it\u2019s fashionable for right-wing Republicans to accuse those who disagree with their extremism as being Marxists, socialists or communists. Of course, they are using these words as epithets, not based on their actual definition. 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