You wouldn’t put a Black Lives Matter mob in charge of a shopping mall. Why would you put liberal bureaucrats in charge of other people’s money? The inevitable result is the same: an orgiastic looting spree.

The New York Post reports:

The federal government overpaid welfare and social services recipients by a stunning $186 billion in fiscal year 2025, a startling surge of $24 billion from the previous year’s total.

According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), 15 federal agencies made up the massive improper payments overage spanning 64 programs, with approximately 82% of the overages the result of overpayments.

This does not count the hundreds of $billions lost to straightforward fraud of the type Somali colonists multiculturally enrich us with.

JD Vance is heading a task force intended to address the fraud. These efforts will be abandoned the day Democrats retake the White House.

Overpayments included $57 billion from Medicare, $37 billion from Medicaid, $21 billion for unearned Earned Income Tax Credit, and $10 billion for food stamps. Some highly suspect programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families were not counted.

These numbers are dwarfed by the actual scale of the problem. It could be argued that every penny doled out by the welfare state is an overpayment. It is not the proper role of government to confiscate money from those it belongs to so as to hand it out to those it does not.

As the welfare state continues to feed on itself, the waste will become ever more extravagant until it collapses the entire economy, as per the Cloward-Piven strategy for imposing communism.

On a tip from patthedog.