A viral social media post highlighted a California State Auditor\u2019s 2025 report, pointing to over $70 billion in taxpayer losses across programs, aggregated from separate audits. Key issues include potential annual costs of $2.5 billion from CalFresh (SNAP) payment errors due to federal changes; $24 billion spent on homelessness; $18 billion wasted on high-speed rail; plus unemployment fraud and a scrapped 911 upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reacting to these shocking details, Rep. Kevin Kiley criticized the mismanagement, calling California the \u201cfraud capital.\u201d When the news broke on social media, users were incensed and took Newsom to task for his failure as a leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Announcing the news, a popular post to social media\u00a0read, \u201cBREAKING \u2013 A 92-page report by the California State Auditor has found that over $70 billion in taxpayer funds have been lost, including $2.5 billion in SNAP fraud, $24 billion on fighting homelessness, and $18 billion for a high-speed rail where not a single track has been laid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Starting off with a shocking reveal, the segment explained the details of the case. \u201cThe latest report was issued by the State Auditor, and that\u2019s a nonpartisan position that the 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,\u201d the reporter began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Building on this point, she said, \u201cHere\u2019s a look at that 92-page report. California\u2019s food stamp program has been added to the High Risk List. If the state doesn\u2019t get the improper payments under control, it could cost an extra two and a half billion dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Providing more sensational details, the Newsmax reporter kept going. \u201cAlso on there is the Department of Finance, which was tasked with giving out COVID-19 relief funds. Critics say $32 billion of that was taken by fraudsters. Then there are infrastructure issues, like California\u2019s deteriorating dams, and also the high-speed train that\u2019s already cost taxpayers 18 billion without a single section of track complete,\u201d the anchor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wrapping up, the reporter noted, \u201cOther reports cite $24 million spent on the homeless issue, which critics claim the state lost track of. More recently, there\u2019s a report that says California cell phone users paid a surcharge for years to upgrade the state\u2019s 911 system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the same segment, State Congressman Kevin Kiley explained the issue. \u201cThe state is totally scrapping it and starting over, completely wasting the money because the technology doesn\u2019t work. Mind you, we are very close to Silicon Valley in Sacramento, and yet the government can\u2019t figure out how to make basic technology perform,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watch the clip here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Offering a personal anecdote about the poor state of California, one woman noted, \u201cSomeone within the State is using my daughter\u2019s Social Security number and Gavin Newsom\u2019s EDD won\u2019t tell her who.\u201dSimilarly, annoyed, another said, \u201cSomeone should audit Newsome and his 9 million dollar estate he purchased this year on the $242K salary he receives\u2026\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A viral social media post highlighted a California State Auditor\u2019s 2025 report, pointing to over $70 billion in taxpayer losses across programs, aggregated from separate audits. Key issues include potential annual costs of $2.5 billion from CalFresh (SNAP) payment errors due to federal changes; $24 billion spent on homelessness; $18 billion wasted on high-speed rail;…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_9.png",996,487,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"flashpoint","author_link":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/?author=1"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":34,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":34,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashpointupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}