House Republicans, Democrats Agree on Need to Stop Waste, Fraud in Pandemic Programs

Published on September 11, 2024

More than $191 billion was wasted due to fraud and mismanagement of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance Relief programs in the federal government’s response to the coronavirus, according to congressional investigators. Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee agreed the programs were plagued by costly problems, though they continued to disagree on what is needed to prevent recurrence. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) is chairman of the Oversight Committee, while Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) is the ranking member on the panel. The unemployment insurance programs created “an unprecedented amount of fraud and improper payments,” and “the full extent of this fraud and the money lost may never be fully known,” according to a Sept. 10 report prepared by the Oversight Committee Republican investigators....

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