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Yum. This is the state's own auditor. Do you know that they think that the waste, fraud and abuse in California could be up to $70 billion billion dollars? 70 with a B. Do you realize how much money we as taxpayers would have back in our pockets if the government and especially on a state level. I think the waste, fraud and abuse is far worse on a state level than it is on the federal level. And I could be living in dreamland, but I think it is far worse on a state level than on the federal level. How much money we would have back in our pockets. This and it's because they don't respect us. Not all, but a lot of state workers and a lot of government workers don't care because it's other people's money. Opm, other people's money. So they don't care. We pay their salaries and they are supposed to be stewards of our money, yet they are not. And this isn't even making big news because it was released right before Christmas. So it doesn't make big news. This is going to just get lost in the weeds when Gavin Newsom runs in 2028. This is going to be a long forgotten memory. Four out of eight agencies. The auditor's new report identifies eight high risk agencies that not only exhibit serious waste Fraud and abuse, abuse or mismanagement, but also have failed to take adequate corrective action. So they know that they're losing money. They know that the billions, billions of dollars, these agencies, billions each are losing money. It's disappeared. And how does money disappear? How does that happen? They're losing money somehow and they failed to correct it. They're like, oh, sorry, our bad. And they refute. They just didn't correct it. So I don't know what you do. And until people in California start to rise up and get upset about this, nothing is going to change. The report found again, massive payment error rates in the delivery of food assistance benefits. Does that sound familiar to you? Does that sound like Maine? Does that sound like Massachusetts? Does that sound like Minnesota, the poster child for fraud? California is going to take that crown in a heartbeat. This is several times Minnesota's alleged fraud and abuse. If Calif. The numbers for California turn out to be right, that alone could cost the state two and a half billion dollars. Where is the money going? That's what I want to know. I want to know who's in charge of oversight, number one. And number two, where did the money go? You can find it if you want to. And who was ever in charge of the oversight for these programs need to. Need to be held to account. It is. It also discovered that fraud and improper payments for unemployment benefits continue to cost the state billions. It just keeps happening. Inadequate eligibility determinations for Medi Cal, which is their version of Medicaid, put billions more at risk. No one is guarding the money and it's clear that they don't care. And that's what drives me nuts. On top of all of this, 49 dams in the state pose what is called extremely high hazard to life and property. The number of dams rated poor, so that's 49 dams rated poor or unsatisfactory, are increasing by 73% over the last two years. This is Gavin Newsom's America, and he's dining at the French Laundry without a mask while the staff wears masks to serve him. I mean, how much more Democrat party can. Can you get than that, right? Like, how much more can you get than that? The double standard is insane. And Gavin Newsom with his jazz hands there with the weird hand motions is going to get the nominee because none of this matters to them. None of this matters to them. The state's unemployment insurance program bought again, you heard this in the report. 7224 mobile devices for employees to use from home during COVID They took them back Put them in a closet. And nobody remembered to cancel the contracts for 7,000 phones. We just forgot. We just kept paying it. Nobody, nobody along the line said, you know, this probably isn't a good idea because it's other people's money. Another a California Air Resources board, I don't even know what that is, continued paying one of its employees over $170,000 salary annually for 15 months after the employee left. And I guarantee you that employee gets to keep the money. Like I would be so afraid, you know, if I get overpaid by, by one of my clients, if I get overpaid, I'm immediately on the phone. I actually like to email them because I like to have a paper trail. I'll email them and say, hey, you overpay me, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then that let them decide how they want to handle it. Because I know in the end they're going to come, they're going to eventually find it because it's private business, it's a private industry. They're going to find it and they're going come back to me and want the money. So I don't want them to think that I'm dishonest and keeping it. So I'm like, oh, you overpay me, even if it's 20 bucks. Well, 20 bucks. I don't know if I would, but, but I would let them know, hey, you know, you made a mistake here. And this happened several times where I've been like, oh, this is a big mistake. And I'm very honest and I let them know. But apparently this guy, I would assume he got to keep it 128 billion on a high speed train 18 years later, nothing. No track. No track at all. But they spent 18 billion and haven't done a darn thing. Nothing. 24 billion on homelessness, yet the home, they lost track of the funds. They don't know where it went because you know where it went. It went to these NGOs, it went to these little services that somebody set up and says, oh no, I'm helping the homeless, I'm giving them counseling, I'm doing this, I'm doing that. Provided the paperwork, probably with a storefront or a fake address or there's like 14 businesses run out of one address and they don't do anything. And they just lost track of the funds. Just lost it. 24 billion and homelessness has soared. California has the highest rate of homelessness in the nation, probably because they just lose the money. And that technology system you heard about Their hubs given a jump from Silicon Valley, but they actually have Silicon Valley in the state. And that, that phone system, the 911 system that they had spent all this money on upgrading and putting in, didn't work. So, oh well, it just scrapped the whole thing. $650 million later. Now I know that's not in the billion, so that's just a drop in the bucket. But if you don't want to give it to me, because I'll take it, I will take that 650. I'll even pay the taxes on it. Thank you. I'll be more than happy because when I'm done with taxes, I'll have about half left. So I have about 325 left. 325 million. You know what? I won't be on the radio on Monday. Not gonna be here anyway, but you know what I mean. So the stage budget, and while all of this waste, fraud and abuse is going on, they're just losing billions and billions of dollars. The budget grew by 50% in five years under Newsom. And this guy wants to run for president and I guarantee you he, he is going to be the candidate. Now in the meantime, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services has canceled main care payments to Gateway Community Services after the audits found that that charity, Gateway Community Services, this is one of those organizations that people just set up and they know how to play the game. They over bill overbuild the state over a million dollars, about a million $1,070,000 from March of 2021 through December. Not bad for less than two years work. The cash was supposed to cover the costs of interpreting services to Somali migrants. I'm sorry. Maybe we should be teaching them English instead of translating for them so they can just continue to not integrate into society. Maybe we should be teaching them English instead. Now Gateway also reportedly overbilled for more than 600,000 between 2015 and 2018. And they are under a cloud of suspicion still for other violations that were found during another state audit that was completed in 2024. But they keep doling money out to them. Thank goodness Maine finally came to their senses and said enough is enough. Now you ready? Gateway was funded and see if you see a common thread through this. Gateway was founded in 2015 and which they were immediately under overbilling people by a Somali migrant, Abdullah Ali, who became the subject of some scrutin. He launched a 2024 bid to run for the president of Jubaland, which is an autonomous region in Somalia. While he's living in the United States, running this charity, Gateway Services, which was defrauding the state of millions of dollars in improperly billed services. Why is he still here? Why? Why is he still here? We should have repatriated him to Jubaland and we should have given him one way ticket so you can go campaign in person, Juba Land without American money. You know, this is exactly what he used the money for, in my humble opinion. I don't know what happened to this guy. I don't even know if he's even been, if he's even been charged with anything. The agency also has connections to a number of prominent Democrats in Maine, including Democrat State Senator Chloe Maxim and Democrat strategists Joanne D. Arc Archangelo and BJ McCollister. BJ is served in the Joe Biden campaign 2020 for the White House. And he chief of staff to Maine Democrat Senate President Troy Jackson. Shocking that they have connections to Democrats. Nobody could have seen that part of the puzzle. It's just shocking. All right, I've got some more coming up. We're going to talk a little bit about Georgia and the voter rolls because we got that going on, too. That's next on the Rob.