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Unidentified speaker urges improving oversight, not ending social-service programs after HHS freeze in Minnesota
Summary
An unidentified speaker at a congressional hearing urged lawmakers to strengthen oversight of federal social-service programs rather than terminate them, citing an HHS freeze on Minnesota childcare funding the speaker said would affect more than 23,000 children and arguing the hearing is being used for partisan ends.
An unidentified speaker at a hearing urged lawmakers to fix oversight gaps in federal social-service programs rather than dismantle those programs, saying targeted reforms are a better response to fraud than broad cuts.
"To truly tackle waste, fraud, and abuse, we need to approach the issue with a scalpel, not a mallet," the unidentified speaker said, arguing that discovering fraud in a federal program does not justify ending that program. The speaker added that oversight mechanisms need to be…
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