What Waste of Money Would You Denounce to a DOGE-like Agency Auditing DC Government Expenses?

[Anonymous]

Bowser favoring developers:

D.C. Landlords Owe More Than $40 Million in Unpaid Housing Violations

"In recent months, District officials quietly waived $1 million in fees from one Van Ness apartment complex."

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/758128/dc-landlords-owe-millions-in-unpaid-housing-violations/

[Anonymous]

Literally none because I do not collaborate with Nazis.

[Anonymous]

"Several FBI investigations in DC under Mayor Muriel Bowser's administration"

https://youtu.be/zQzd9DL8NZk?si=yZoM7wfz7jDcIA2X

[Anonymous]

Stacking the homeless and addicts into luxury apartment buildings at market rates. Then declaring that homelessness is down.

[Anonymous]

Feds using toilet paper, soap and paper towels in restrooms.
Janitors
Lighting
Heat/AC

[Anonymous]

DC Public Schools contractor, and former employee, accused of bribery scheme against system

According to the indictment, Dana Garnett and co-conspirator Patricia Bailey, another DCPS employee had coordinated with the vendors to deliver a lesser amount of goods than were listed on the orders. The vendors paid bribes in cash to Garnett and Bailey in various locations in the D.C. and Maryland area.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/former-district-columbia-public-school-employee-and-government-contractor-indicted#:~:text=The%20indictment%20alleges%20that%20over,paid%20in%20full%20by%20DCPS.

[Anonymous]

An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:
- 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits
- 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits
- 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits

In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.

[Anonymous]

the city bought a bunch of miniature street cleaning machines that are specially made to clean bike lanes. they cost $300,000 a piece. wouldn't want the bike lanes to get dirty.

[Anonymous]

Fire the zoning office. Let me build.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anything truly qualifying as fraud or waste needs a comparison to prove it was fraud of waste. You can’t just point to any instance of government spending that you disagree with and claim it’s fraud.

Investigate this person first.

[Anonymous]

The prepaid cards they load your jury stipends onto have massive fees and are awful. Terrible contract.

[Anonymous]

Federal office buildings (owned and leased) when most workers prefer to work from home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:contracting and procurement. DC will get items from a local company as long as it costs no more than 12% over other places it can be purchased. Basically, a company can buy stuff on amazon or wherever and sell it to DC for a 12% markup. I see some value in buying local but 3% seems fine.

Also DC could get tons of money if it more vigorously booted and towed cars with unpaid tickets.

Removing the personal property tax filing requirement for businesses with less than $225k in property would not reduce tax revenue and DC could process 58,000 fewer returns. This would save money and make life easier for businesses. The DC tax reform commission considered this (see https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f84tmUL2Mfatfr_uvaw0--8Mplm8n8K9/view) but they stupidly twisted it into getting rid of the tax altogether and then the commission imploded. The Council could still do this though.

DC should also get rid of the "married filing separately on the same return" filing status. No state has it, it makes things more complicated for tax filers, and it costs DC money. Just use the same filing statuses as the federal return.

How refreshing would that be?! I file property tax in Falls Church for like $1000. It's like $20 in taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Entire DCPS yellow school busses carrying a single child. Either put more than one kid on that bus or switch gradually to the smallest EV/hybrid that can accept a wheelchair.

And yes, all the bike lanes that carry 1-3 bikes a week.

This is because of a court order. When I was at OSSE, we got out of court receivership, only to go back in a few years ago. Huge boondoggle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A $400K was paid to a big law firm, Latham & Watkins, to investigate Trayon White after the FBI investigated him and showed videos of him receiving bribes.

https://wjla.com/news/local/trayon-white-dc-council-seat-ad-hoc-committee-meeting-investigation-councilmember-ward-8-code-of-conduct-violation-federal-bribery-charges-independent-investigation

Nothing. I would ask that billionaires and their companies pay their full share of taxes.