{"id":5552,"date":"2025-03-21T07:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2025-03-21T07:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:34:41","slug":"congress-tries-to-stop-the-hundreds-of-billions-in-fraudulent-and-improper-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/congress-tries-to-stop-the-hundreds-of-billions-in-fraudulent-and-improper-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers try to stop the hundreds of billions in fraudulent and improper spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kosar-Lawmakers-try-to-stop-the-hundreds-of-billions-in-fraudulent-and-improper-spending-Washington-Examiner-03-26-2025-png.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"832\" data-attachment-id=\"5554\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/congress-tries-to-stop-the-hundreds-of-billions-in-fraudulent-and-improper-spending\/kosar-lawmakers-try-to-stop-the-hundreds-of-billions-in-fraudulent-and-improper-spending-washington-examiner-03-26-2025-png\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kosar-Lawmakers-try-to-stop-the-hundreds-of-billions-in-fraudulent-and-improper-spending-Washington-Examiner-03-26-2025-png.png\" data-orig-size=\"650,832\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kosar Lawmakers try to stop the hundreds of billions in fraudulent and improper spending Washington Examiner 03-26-2025 png\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kosar-Lawmakers-try-to-stop-the-hundreds-of-billions-in-fraudulent-and-improper-spending-Washington-Examiner-03-26-2025-png-234x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kosar-Lawmakers-try-to-stop-the-hundreds-of-billions-in-fraudulent-and-improper-spending-Washington-Examiner-03-26-2025-png.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kosar-Lawmakers-try-to-stop-the-hundreds-of-billions-in-fraudulent-and-improper-spending-Washington-Examiner-03-26-2025-png.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kosar-Lawmakers-try-to-stop-the-hundreds-of-billions-in-fraudulent-and-improper-spending-Washington-Examiner-03-26-2025-png.png 650w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kosar-Lawmakers-try-to-stop-the-hundreds-of-billions-in-fraudulent-and-improper-spending-Washington-Examiner-03-26-2025-png-234x300.png 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, the U.S. government made at least $162 billion in improper payments, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog. Kristin Kociolek of the Government Accountability Office also told a House oversight subcommittee that the government was defrauded of $233 billion to $521 billion per year between 2018 and 2022&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine-washington-briefing\/3349412\/congress-tries-stop-fraudulent-improper-spending\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the U.S. government made at least $162 billion in improper payments, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog. Kristin Kociolek of the Government Accountability Office also told a House oversight subcommittee that the government was defrauded of $233 billion to $521 billion per year between 2018 and 2022&#8230;.(Read more)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[165],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","tag-the-washington-examiner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1ry","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5557,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}