The Obiden Regime’s list of accomplishments is extremely short.
The economy they created has left prices inflated some 17% since Biden assumed his position, international relations have been appalling, the activist Left agenda on abortion and transgenderism is destroying our culture, plus the surgeries designed to mutilate children are criminal, and the southern border spread wide open like a bent-over BHO assuming his position leaves absolutely nothing meaningful to brag about.
This from wndnewscenter.org.
Foliage on a D.C. money tree displaying its vivid fall color.
Given they have zero accomplishments, when the documentation of “improper payments” by the government actually went down, the White House posted a statement boasting about it.
The White House bragged:
Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing its annual data on improper payments, which shows a reduction Government-wide.
This critical milestone demonstrates the integrity of Government programs while ensuring that Government continues to work better for the American people.
The improper and insufficient documentation payment rate in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 was 5.43%.
Consistent with the reduction in FY 2022, this year’s rate again shows a significant decrease compared to the FY 2021 rate of 7.16%.
The WH also alleged that those payments:
[Are not] a measure of monetary losses to taxpayers, [because it could involve a simple matter of failed] documentation.
However, the posting left out a significant factor—how much money actually was involved, and Just the News obtained that figure from the General Accountability Office.
Read it and weep: The Regime is boasting that $236 billion, was paid out improperly in 2023 which was a “significant” decrease from the amount of U.S. taxpayer dollars improperly paid out in 2022—that figure having been $247 billion.
Since a billion here and billion there soon adds up to significant money, for perspective, the $236 billion would purchase 728,000 brand new Ferrari F8 Spider cars. Those are the toys that develop 710 horsepower and go from 0-60 in 2.9 seconds and 0-124 in 7.8 seconds.
And to put that into a different perspective:
[T]hat would be enough cars to hand over the keys to a new vehicle to every resident of Denver, with some 30,000 cars left over.
Just the News reported that loss to the government is more than double the amount from fiscal year 2013.
The report explained:
Since 2003, there have been more than $2.4 trillion of improper payments made across the federal government, according to the GAO, and that figure does not include the fiscal year 2023 amount.
The government watchdog defines ‘improper payments’ as payments that should not have been made or were made in the incorrect amount and says they ‘have consistently been a government-wide issue despite efforts to identify their root causes and reduce them.’
NOTE:
The most improper payment stem from the massive Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and Earned Income Tax Credit programs.
Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told Just the News it was “more evidence” that shows Washington, D.C., is broken.
Good explained:
This is just more evidence that Washington is broken and too many career politicians and bureaucrats don’t care about how they waste taxpayer dollars.
We are $34 trillion in debt and will be over $36 trillion in debt before the current debt limit deal ends next January. We cannot afford to wait any longer to stop the runaway spending train and get our fiscal house in order.
The report stated those payments surged from 2007 when they were $42 billion to 2010 when they were $121 billion.
Pending before Congress right now are measures that would keep the government funded and running, however, fixing problems is not on the agenda.
Final thought: Ceasing the system of improper payments is not part of the Obiden Plan—which is intent on bringing America to its knees.
