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A recent report by the Smithsonian's internal Office of the Inspector General revealed that the institution misused a portion of the $7.5 million it received in Covid relief funds from the 2020 CARES Act. Additionally, federal agencies have been reported to have made $2.7 trillion in improper payments since 2003, with nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars in improper payments occurring just this year, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. This level of improper payments, totaling $236 billion in 2023, is multiple times greater than the entire budgets of the cabinet departments responsible for law enforcement and diplomacy.
The federal government made improper payments multiple times greater than the entire budgets of the cabinet departments tasked with law enforcement and diplomacy last year. $236 billion in improper payments in 2023, according to @USGAO New from me @NRO https://t.co/EM3uXdGpTv
The federal government made improper payments multiple times greater than the entire budgets of the cabinet departments tasked with law enforcement and diplomacy last year. | @DominicJPino https://t.co/tdr5vRUTMc
Any amount of waste from improper payments is unacceptable - but this report highlights just how staggering a problem the federal government faces. Just this year, nearly a QUARTER OF A TRILLION of your tax dollars were wasted on improper payments. We can and must do better to…
