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California Congressman Kevin Kiley he is sounding the alarm in his home state saying under Governor Gavin Newsom's leadership it has become the quote "fraud capital of America." And we have team coverage our national correspondent Alana Austin is on Capitol Hill with more on the investigations into Tim Walz but we start with correspondent Heather Myers who has more on what is going on in California a rainy day out there on the west coast. Heather what can you tell us? Well good afternoon to you Katrina and Andrew this latest report was issued by the state auditor and that's a nonpartisan position that state auditor now puts eight state agencies on the high-risk list of agencies to watch out for for things like fraud and mismanagement as well as waste here's a look at that 92 page report newly added to the high-risk list is California's food stamp program if the state doesn't get the improper payments under control it could cost an extra two and a half billion dollars also on there is the Department of Finance which was tasked with giving out COVID relief funds critics say 32 billion dollars of that was taken by fraudsters then there are infrastructure issues like California's deteriorating dams and also the high speed train that's already cost taxpayers 18 billion without a single section of track complete other reports site 24 billion dollars spent on the homeless issue that critics claim the state lost track of more recently there's a report that says California cell phone users paid a surcharge for years to upgrade the state's 911 system here's Congressman Kevin Kiley talking about what happened to that plan that after spending 650 million dollars on that system the state is totally scrapping it and starting over completely wasted the money because the technology doesn't work mind you we are very close to Silicon Valley in Sacramento and yet the government can't figure out how to make basic technology perform
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