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| California Tries to Blame Trump for $30 Billion in Unemployment Fraud |
| 2023-02-03 |
| [Breitbart] The State of California is attempting to blame former President Donald Trump for the fact that fraudsters stole $30 billion in coronavirus relief payments from the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD). As Breitbart News reported in 2021, the California State Auditor flagged the EDD for gross mismanagement: The EDD is the agency through which Californians are supposed to obtain unemployment payments and compensation for maternity leave. However, fraud and mismanagement have led to billions of dollars in losses. The EDD system has sent unemployment checks to prison inmates, while truly deserving Californians wait months for money that they need. The report itself adds: “EDD did not take substantive action to bolster its fraud detection efforts for its unemployment insurance program until months into the pandemic, resulting in payments of about $10.4 billion for claims that it has since determined may be fraudulent.” Now, after an inquiry from Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the new chair of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, California is trying to claim that Trump’s supposedly weak federal leadership was to blame. Ironically, it was Democrats, and not the Trump administration, that insisted on distributing coronavirus relief through state unemployment systems, rather than simply using checks from the federal government. They were acting on advice from liberal economists who wanted to see unemployment expanded as a welfare system. On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) argued that Republicans are singling out Democrat-governed states like California and New York for investigation, while ignoring fraud in conservative states. Many states suffered from similar fraud, though California suffered the most — a fact that some say reflects the state’s large population, but which critics say is a reflection of a dysfunctional, Democrat-run state bureaucracy. Related: Coronavirus relief payments: 2020-12-23 Pres. Donald Trump Demands Congress Add $2000 Direct Payments to Coronavirus Relief Bill Coronavirus relief payments: 2020-04-15 Trump's Name to be on 70 million Relief Checks Related: Employment Development Department: 2021-11-25 Calif Estimates $20B in Unemployment fraud since pandemic Employment Development Department: 2021-01-28 Financial Fiasco Claims California Unemployed: Four Million or 1/10th Population Affected Employment Development Department: 2020-10-30 California fraud suspects used unemployment cards to make purchases, access cash: authorities |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 I noticed in California that illegality becomes the system. My son had an old truck that he felt could not pass inspection. He told me that he sold it for greater than his $1K purchase price. I asked him who would buy a vehicle that could not be certified for use. He explained that he sold it to an illegal alien who intended to use it for his lawn care business. That was the way of it. The truck still had value to someone for whom none of the rules apply. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-02-03 15:38 |