Mississippi auditor Shad White slashes Magnolia State waste

EXCLUSIVE: On Monday, Mississippi State Auditor Shad White will announce the compilation of the audit conducted by his office, in which he tably a collective $ 400 million of waste during his term.

“In the last few weeks we jokingly started to be called my, Office in Mississippi Government efficiency, such as Elon Male Doge, “White told Fox News Digital, referring to the Musk Department of Government Efficiency under Trump’s administration.

“We approach our work with the same care on every penny as the dogs, and I am happy that I am Mississippi’s musk,” White said.

Although the auditor’s office cannot reduce any wasteful consumption, he warns state legislators to what he reveals.

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“We have been working on this project for the last few years. And what is currently encouraging is that President Trump and Elon Musk Rade Doge, who has raised public awareness of the amount of fraud, waste and abuse in the Government,” White said in his exclusive interview.

“So, people start to carefully observe what we have discovered. In our time in the state auditor’s office, my team and I discovered a waste of about $ 400 million.”

This figure will be broken down in a report on an 800 pages, which White will publish later on Monday.

He said Medicaid was the main question, in that tens of millions of dollars of subsidies go to Mississippi that are not acceptable.

One state agency has spent almost $ 6,000 on TVs, and similarly inflated allies pay about $ 2,000 for similar technology, he said.

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“So, if you think the federal government is ineffective, I promise you, your state governments across the country are probably even less effective,” he said.

Asked about reducing wasteful consumption in Dei and elsewhere, White said it was even in red Magnolia stateA lot of things need to be discovered and pruning.

“[W]The hen dug in what they do with all this time of staff and all these resources, have done things like maintaining a micro -digit training for engineers – I don’t know why we need to do it. They gave grants for yoga for social justice for preschoolers. Just crazy things, “he said, because $ 11 million in taxpayers financed only went to Dei in college.

In Magnolia, 20% of people live below the poverty line, so efficient consumption of federal and other public funds is the most important thing, White said.

Millions of incorrectly inserted dollars have originated from approved benefits, including the approved community gardens that have never been built or non -profit organizations that have been obliged to use funds to help the poor, but instead of an executive salary.

“We have found that dollars that should go to poor people who will pay for the sponsorship of beauty,” he added.

“Indeed, I think here is a big point, this kind of waste occurs at all levels of government. And now that it impresses the lead and shows the Earth how much fraud, waste and abuse is, it is really obliged to look at its own house and ensure that this fraud, waste and abuse is not happening in the State Government.

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The roles of the state auditor are different from the state to the state.

Asked if White collaborated with neighboring officials or other states Deep South collaborated at regional Doge type initiatives, White said some countries like Alabama have the role of an auditor with limited legal powers from his in Jackson.

But he said that the auditor of Oklahoma Cindy Byrd was working on a similar effort to detect government waste in before.

“Me [state auditors] They are talking to each other – and whether it is your state auditor or a key state lawyer or governor, indeed, each state must initiate reach. “

Fox News Digital reached for Reeves to comment on White’s past work in recognizing waste, fraud and abuse.