Episode 932 • • 2:40:17 - 2:43:15
932: Roundly Debunked
Federal Improper Payments, Medicare Fraud, and GAO Report
Comptroller General Gene Dodaro testifies that the federal government made over $144 billion in "improper payments" in 2016 alone, with a cumulative total of $1.2 trillion since 2003. The majority of these errors occur in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Earned Income Tax Credit. The hosts express outrage at the scale of the waste and the government's inability to audit the Pentagon or track these funds properly.