The House oversight committee is set to conduct its first hearing in the new Congress on fraud and waste in federal pandemic spending. Lawmakers are anxious to discern how much theft has occurred and what can be done to stop it in future emergencies.
But that’s just the start, according to investigators scheduled to testify Wednesday to a congressional committee as House Republicans mark the beginning of what they promise will be aggressiveThe House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is holding its first hearing in the new Congress on fraud and waste in federal pandemic spending. Congress approved about $4.6 trillion in spending from six coronavirus relief laws, beginning in March 2020 when Donald Trump was president.
“We owe it to the American people to get to the bottom of the greatest theft of American taxpayer dollars in history,” said Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the committee’s chairman.The Government Accountability Office is expected to tell the committee that the number of cases of suspected fraud is certain to grow in the coming months.
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