{"id":356561,"date":"2026-06-11T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356561\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:09:08","slug":"instead-of-protecting-california-taxpayers-whitesides-is-enabling-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356561\/","title":{"rendered":"Instead of Protecting California Taxpayers, Whitesides is Enabling Fraud."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 11, 2026<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans are focused on preventing fraud in government to protect Californians\u2019 tax dollars. But George Whitesides? He just voted to enable it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, George Whitesides just voted AGAINST a commonsense resolution denouncing those who defraud taxpayers and pledging support for stronger safeguards against fraud, including through verifying eligibility before taxpayer dollars are wrongfully sent out the door.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStanding up for California taxpayers shouldn\u2019t be hard, but sadly, it\u2019s impossible for George Whitesides. He would rather bow down to his radical base and continue allowing bad actors to abuse taxpayer dollars than make government more efficient and accountable to Californians.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 NRCC Spokesman Christian Martinez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 11, 2026 House Republicans are focused on preventing fraud in government to protect Californians\u2019 tax dollars. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[145235,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-356561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ca-27","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}