New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused House Oversight Committee Republicans of 'rank partisanship' in their investigation of COVID-19 pandemic relief waste.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., questioned why Republicans are highlighting COVID-19 pandemic fraud in Pennsylvania, New York and California, in a Wednesday House hearing., D-N.Y., on Wednesday questioned the motives of Republicans leading a House Oversight Committee investigation into waste, fraud and abuse in COVID-19 relief programs.
"None of these states have been put under investigation by this committee," Ocasio-Cortez said. "I find it very interesting because as was stated at the beginning, the bipartisan nature of oversight is what gives it its power." "But I cannot, for the life of me, understand why the majority would send these three letters just to these three states. That leaves us with no other conclusion that [sic] there needs to be some rank partisanship in this investigation," she asserted.
Wednesday's hearing, the first Oversight hearing of this year, focused on the loss of taxpayer dollars to fraud in the federal government's $5 trillion in spending onIn his opening remarks, Comer called rampant waste, fraud and abuse in the government's pandemic response stimulus,
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