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Witnesses pressed on Paul Walczak pardon as speaker says Trump funding freeze will hurt service recipients
Summary
At a public hearing, an unidentified speaker criticized the pardon of Paul Walczak and linked it to a federal freeze of social-services funds to five states, arguing the freeze harms "innocent people and kids." A witness said they had not reviewed the facts or law and offered no opinion.
An unidentified speaker at a public hearing challenged witnesses over the pardon of Paul Walczak, a man the speaker described as having inflicted nearly $1.1 billion in taxpayer losses and later receiving a presidential pardon.
"Now let's look at Paul Walczak," the speaker said, adding that "A tax cheater's crimes cost taxpayers almost $1,100,000,000," and that Walczak made "lavish purchases like a $1,000,000…
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