As the last two administrations pushed through $5 trillion in COVID relief spending, fraudsters licked their chops. Up to half of the $873 billion unemployment benefits was lost to organized criminals both here and abroad, in places like China, Ukraine, Russia and Nigeria. An estimated $80 billion was lost in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). If that isn’t bad enough, you have fraudsters in Congress itself using earmarks to pay for pet projects, buy votes, and line the pockets of their personal or political friends. By failing to keep the US base in Afghanistan to ensure the continuance of the Afghan government, Biden let an estimated $84 billion in military hardware fall into the Taliban’s hands. The spigot must be turned off. An intervention must be made in Congress to stop these reckless spenders from blowing America’s future.
