Ro Khanna

I'm all for focusing on not these endless wars, not wasting money overseas, focusing on building our communities.

And I'm also for getting rid of the fraud, waste, and inefficiencies.

FDR, who is one of my favorite presidents, New Deal, he said, there's total local inefficiencies in government, wasted money in local governments, state governments.

I'm going to tackle that.

And I'm also going to tax the wealthy to get people health care and child care and jobs.

I think we have to do both.

But I spoke out on oversight yesterday about the fraud that was going on in Minnesota and other places.

I wasn't like, OK, let's just defend it.

I said, let's do an audit on all 50 states.

Look at the inefficiency spending in Sacramento.

Look at it in Minnesota.

But look at it in all 50 states.

And let's have an audit.

Let's understand why we wasted money.

Why did we waste money in the pandemic when unemployment checks were claimed as fraud?

And what were the projects that have been wasted?

And have a clear accountability so that people know where their tax dollars are going.

And you have to do that if you have my view that we want government to do health care and child care and jobs.

I mean, people may disagree with me that that's the obligation of government, but I feel that people should have basic education and health care to be able to have a decent life.

But I've got the responsibility to take on a fraud and waste and abuse.