As many Americans shopped for Black Friday deals, the Biden-Harris administration released annual data on improper payments showing that the federal government spent at least $161 billion of taxpayers’ money sending payments to the wrong people and in the wrong amounts in fiscal year 2024.
Although this amount marked a decrease from the pandemic-era average of $238 billion per year in improper payments between 2020 and 2023, $161 billion is still an egregious amount. It’s almost twice as much as the $89 billion budget of the Department of Homeland Security. And the total reported covers only the programs tracked and the improper payments discovered.
Such massive errors would never happen in a private business or within a family budget. But when the federal government empowers bureaucrats to spend other people’s money without consequence or accountability and…
