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Investigating California’s misuse of taxpayer money

Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 10:29 pm | Randy Thomasson

The reason the Trump Administration is investigating widespread fraud in California is that they know they’ll win on this. Because enforcing proper use of federal funds is the jurisdiction of the federal government. So the Trump Administration’s audit of the mountains of federal funds coming here is wise and will be effective.

We’re ALL interested!! Keep reading for what the letter said from the FDA (US. Food & Drug Administration) to Bill Melugin, congressional correspondent for Fox News (copied from his 2/13/26 social media post on X):

Hello:

I am contacting you on behalf of the FDA’s Division of Information Disclosure regarding your FOIA request submitted on August 3, 2020. We apologize for the delay in processing. Due to a significant backlog of FOIA requests, we are reaching out to confirm whether you remain interested in having this request processed.

Below are the details of your request:

– FOIA Request #2020-5623

– Date Range: January 1, 2020 – July 29, 2020

– Description: I am requesting all FDA communications, including but not limited to, emails with the CDC/NIOSH that mention, reference, or discuss any masks or approval of masks associated with the $1 billion contract between the state of California and the company “BYD”. Please include any emails that discuss, reference, or mention any N95, KN95, or surgical masks that were part of this deal. Please include any communications with the CDC that mention, reference, or discuss the company “BYD”.

Please let us know whether you would like to keep this request open or withdraw it. If we do not receive a response within 30 days of this message, we will consider the request withdrawn and administratively close it.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. We look forward to your response.

How much misuse of federal taxpayer funds is going on in Democrat-Party-controlled California?

As the California Globe reported on Feb 17, 2026:

Here’s a short list of California’s fraud that the Globe has covered:

Cannabis tax fraud

$450 Million spent on a “Next Generation” 911 system that didn’t work

$55 billion in unemployment fraud was sent to prison inmates in California’s county jails, and state and federal prisons, out of state, and even out of the country

$37 billion spent on homelessness with 337,000 homeless now living on California streets

damning state audits exposing high risk agencies’ waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement including Newsom’s own Finance department and the California State Controller’s Office

$16 billion spent on the High Speed Rail train to nowhere

another $8.6 billion in fraud in COVID-era relief lending in California

billions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims, hospice and home‑health fraud

millions of crooks and bots using stolen identities to collect fraudulent federal and state financial aid in California Community Colleges

There’s no getting around the fact that California has been a focal point in recent fraud investigations, so much so that a new anti-fraud task force targeting welfare abuse in California and other states has been announced, led by Vice President J.D. Vance, Andrew Ferguson of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Attorney General Pam Bondi.

California Congressman Kevin Kiley has his own strategy to get to the bottom of the fraud – he has requested a full GAO audit of California’s fraud to get a comprehensive picture of just how large the fraud is.

“Newsom is also now saying I shouldn’t criticize him for California’s rampant fraud because he somehow ‘stopped’ $125 billion in fraud,” Kiley posted to X.

“That, of course, is a made-up number. Newsom knows if the true scale of CA fraud comes to light, his presidential campaign is over. That’s why he’s terrified of the full GAO audit I’ve ordered and is surely alarmed I just told AG Bondi to make CA the focus of anti-fraud efforts.”

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
Alexander Tytler, Scottish attorney/judge/professor/historian (1747-1813)

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