Source: Fox News Forum
by Jim Bovard
“‘My suggestion: AmeriCorps is proof that if ‘we hold hands and believe … we can change anything we want to change,’ President Bill Clinton declared in 1999. But after more than 30 years of fraud, false claims and political racketeering, AmeriCorps — the federal paid volunteer oxymoron — just got hit by a DOGE torpedo. ‘AmeriCorps has failed eight consecutive audits and is entrusted with over $1 billion in taxpayer dollars every year,’ White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly declared. The agency’s Office of Inspector General condemned it in 2014 for ‘shocking waste of taxpayer funds, lax oversight, unauthorized contractual commitments and widespread noncompliance with rules, regulations and sound contracting practices.’ Things have only gotten worse since then. DOGE froze $400 million in grants to more than a thousand organizations, terminating more than 30,000 AmeriCorps members. Most AmeriCorps staffers have either quit or were placed on paid leave.” (05/05/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/doge-helps-gut-leftist-lunacy-most-pious-agency