Rep. Kevin Kiley (CA-R). (Photo: kiley.house.gov)
Rep. Kiley Requests GAO Report on Staggering Fraud in California
‘Newsom knows if the true scale of CA fraud comes to light, his presidential campaign is over’
By Katy Grimes, February 17, 2026 7:27 am
California Governor Newsom, our own International Man of Mystery has been focused on anything but California as he gallivants around the world – first to Davos, and Germany last week where he threatened “climate deniers.”
Today he is in London signing a climate agreement with the UK. I’m sure Californians are relieved that Gov. Newsom is single handedly saving us from climate change.
While he gallivants, California’s climate is normal, but the state of the state is a hot mess. Another $370 million in fraud was uncovered.
Naturally Newsom’s PR kids ran cover for the errant governor putting out a press statement claiming the governor running for President has been “Fighting fraud, saving time, cutting costs: Governor Newsom’s efficiency strategies are improving state government.”
The lies got even more bold in the statement as it appears Newsom’s PR team is running his presidential campaign:
“Through Governor Newsom’s efficiency strategies, California continues to make the state work better for Californians by fighting fraud, building affordable housing faster, streamlining cumbersome state procurement methods, and modernizing workflows using cutting-edge technology.”
CAL DOGE, created by gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, which announced the $370 million in fraud, untangled a web of funding from the Prop 64 authorized California Cannabis Tax Fund (CCTF) – supposed to be used for substance abuse prevention – that instead is building the Democrat political machine in California.
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.”
Every audit of a California program seems to uncover staggering fraud. $32.6 billion in unemployment fraud. Billions with SNAP and Medi-Cal. Millions of fake community college applicants.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. I've asked for a GAO report on all fraud in the state. pic.twitter.com/7QnGWaSca1
— Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) February 9, 2026
“We’re also about to see a state and federal investigation of Newsom’s ‘Next Generation 911 System’ after I exposed the scandal in a Floor speech,” Kiley said. “Newsom charged us fees on our phone bill for six years, spent $450 million, then scrapped the project because the technology didn’t work.
Kiley included in his request additional fraud:
The state’s homelessness programs have faced similar failures. Between 2019 and 2024, California spent $24 billion on homelessness initiatives, yet the homeless population grew by about 30,000, with state audits finding no meaningful metrics to show results.
Recent prosecutions – including nonprofit fraud in San Francisco, a $50 million homelessness funding scheme in Los Angeles, and the conviction of an Orange County judge for workers’ compensation fraud – underscore the scope of the problem.
Congressman Kiley’s request asks the GAO to examine:
- The total amount of publicly reported waste, fraud, and abuse in California since 2016
- A breakdown of fraud by economic sector, including housing, healthcare, transportation, and law enforcement
- The types of perpetrators involved, including grantees and subgrantees
- How stolen public funds are ultimately used
- Lessons from California that can inform federal efforts to prevent fraud nationwide
Be sure to read California State Auditor: Governor Newsom and 8 Agencies NamNamed ‘High-Risk’
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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Even those of us who have monitored Gavin Newsom’s endless destruction, noted it, thought about it, lived with it, suffered from it, written about it until our fingers are numb, striven to spread the word about it to the rest of the country, know Newsom and his beyond-horrible leadership like Rep. Kevin Kiley does. He ran against him for Ca governor, wrote a book about the wreckage Newsom is and has been responsible for (“Recall Newsom” – a fine read, by the way), and has gone up against him in very helpful and informative ways as a member of the House of Representatives. Thus it is a good good thing that he is on the case, that he is calling for this audit, and it seems to me that all interested, beleaguered residents of California should join Kiley in demanding it and be eagerly awaiting the results of it. Bring it on. If nothing else, it definitely WILL be the death knell for Newsom’s delusional and already-zombie-like quest and ambition for the Oval Office.
Hopefully the beleaguered residents of California will join Kevin Kiley in demanding and comprehensive audit to uncover all the fraud in the state which will be the death knell for Newsom’s delusional and already-zombie-like quest and ambition for the Oval Office? However, pervasive voter fraud needs to be addressed first? If the criminal Democrat machine and the deep state were able to install a corrupt and creepy braindead corpse like Joe Biden as president with voter fraud, they might be able to do the same with Hair-gel Hitler Newsom unless things change quickly?
Rep. Nancy Pelosi may be retiring from Congress at the end of this term, but she’s not done trying to shape presidential races. The 85-year-old former House speaker has turned into what one former aide calls “a Gavin fan-girl,” deploying her legendary donor network and political capital to boost California Gov. Gavin Newsom as a 2028 White House contender. Ugh! (https://www.infowars.com/posts/pelosi-appears-to-have-picked-their-candidate-for-president-in-2028)
Election integrity is of such importance that if we can’t achieve “clean-enough” elections we cannot proceed to do anything else to make the changes that we desperately need.
Agree with you, TJ, that election cheating is the Number One priority and has been for some time, at least if you ask attentive Californians who have repeatedly been the victims of it, as well as Californians who DON’T pay attention unknowingly the victims of it, all of it likely going back decades if not farther, but certainly most devastatingly in the last 5-10 years or so. To the point that who even knows if most of the Dem-Marxist super-majority CA legislature, governor, state officeholders, and other local leaders such as blue mayors have been legitimately elected and are thus as we speak smugly sitting in powerful positions that have changed our state into the stinking, smoldering, burning-tire-fire hellhole that we live with daily today?
As far as explosive revelations of widespread billions in stolen taxpayer money because of an endless drumbeat of fraudulent activity by criminals who are also often politicians and state and local “leaders,” this needs to be uncovered, too, and maybe we can do both (and even more) at the same time. Let’s hope so, fingers crossed.
Agree 100%, Showandtell… fantastic post content….
FEDS – PLEASE SEND AN ARMY of forensic auditors and DOGE the bajeezus out of California….
Start with the electronic voting machines and the voter rolls and illegal immigrants that are registered to vote via the “motor voter” laws….
And get rid of Dominion…the security weaknesses are STILL there in black & white on the CA Secretary of State’s website and NOTHING is done about this!!!
Hopefully the beleaguered residents of California will join Kevin Kiley in demanding and comprehensive audit to uncover all the fraud in the state which will be the death knell for Newsom’s delusional and already-zombie-like quest and ambition for the Oval Office? However, pervasive voter fraud needs to be addressed first? If the criminal Democrat machine and the deep state were able to install a corrupt and creepy braindead corpse like Joe Biden as president with voter fraud, they might be able to do the same with Hair-gel Hitler Newsom unless things change quickly?
Compelled to post this is in comments again, the Nick Shirley video that TJ posted earlier elsewhere, because it was so good and there is nothing quite like SEEING this stuff. Be sure to take a look:
“Nick Shirley: I investigated California voter fraud”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSh1Ey4dLcY
“Today he is in London signing a climate agreement with the UK.”
Gov. Dumbdumb does everything but improve this state. He’s a climate fraud denier.
This in from Gov. Dumbdumb’s office “Through Governor Newsom’s efficiency strategies, California continues to make the state work better for Californians”
He can replace his staff members with AI, because every press release sounds like it was AI generated. I don’t consider a state “working better for Californians”, when the budget goes from $200 billion in 2019 to $349 billion in 2025. Which Californians is Gov. Dumbdumb referring to? Welfare recipients? Government workers? Certainly, not the American citizen working middle class.
“Through Governor Newsom’s efficiency strategies, California continues to make the state work better for Californians by fighting fraud, building affordable housing faster, streamlining cumbersome state procurement methods, and modernizing workflows using cutting-edge technology.”
SIX LIES ALL IN ONE STATEMENT!!!
There is NO efficiency strategy OR tactics
The State DOES NOT “work better” since Newsom took office…
FRAUD IS ENDEMIC to EVERY Democrat-run department (which is all of them)
Affordable housing MIGHT be built faster, as UGLY “stack-n-pack” apartment buildings are cropping up EVERYWHERE (not just in California as this is part of the WEF’s “15 minute city” initiatives)
NO streamlining is taking place, as the Palisades “rebuilding” is moving at a GLACIAL pace, and many people are giving up and selling their lots to avoid the carrying costs while Bass’ permitting processes stall people out…
They have NOT modernized SQUAT, and have actually THROWN AWAY multi-million dollar systems that DID NOT WORK…
Gavin “Gruesome” Newsom is a COMPLETE AND UTTER FAILURE and California has accelerated its decline into a dumpster fire that hundreds of thousands have fled, and those of us that have stayed behind are worried that we’re gonna get burned by being the BAG-HOLDERS that get STUCK with the bill for these COMPLETELY CORRUPT Democrat “community organizers” that cannot manage a lemonade stand, let alone a sophisticated state…
And then there’s THIS on the high-speed rail front…
https://youtu.be/ps3aKceT7w8?si=_P0FsOoGmpnUPqC9