Government accountability expert tells '60 Minutes' fraud 'is not a political issue,' optimistic on DOGE

Longtime fraud hazard expert Linda Miller was cautiously optimistic in an interview that aired Sunday about the Department of Governing body Efficiency DOGE though she emphasized that the need to stop establishment fraud is not political I really think fraud is not a political issue This is mom and apple pie stuff Miller narrated Minutes We all agree that bad actors should not be stealing American taxpayer dollars But now it's become political People like me and people in the law enforcement society we see the adversary not as Republicans or Democrats but as foreign adversarial nation-states and organized crime rings She added And I believe that there's opportunities for DOGE to save a lot of crucial money if they focus on the right things if they focus on real fraud DOGE EMPLOYEE 'BIG BALLS' REVEALS HOW HE GOT HIS NAME WARNS OF 'NO CHECKS' ON AUTHORITIES SPENDINGHowever Miller clarified that DOGE and DOGE founder Elon Musk tended to equate fraud with wasteful spending which she pointed out were two separate issues You may not agree with what USAID does you may not want to be investing American dollars in you know foreign fertilizer for example you may think that's the wrong thing to be spending money on but that's not fraud Miller noted During the Minutes segment correspondent Cecilia Vega spoke to experts like Miller who argued that hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud were caused not solely by people falsely taking disability benefits but also by international crime rings from hostile nations like Russia or China through such actions as stealing executive funds from calamity assistance CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREThough she commented the jury s still out on whether DOGE has been effective in combating fraud Miller disclosed she saw signs that it was addressing the right issues To be honest Elon Musk coming out and saying There is a huge amount of fraud I welcome that message absolutely because absolutely someone is authentically saying this Miller noted Last month Musk and DOGE volunteer Antonio Gracias identified more than million noncitizens who were issued Social Guard numbers in FY So far they have unveiled that approximately million noncitizens were issued Social Assurance numbers in FY which began in October and will end in September CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP