{"id":454187,"date":"2026-09-05T05:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454187\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T05:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:52:18","slug":"los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-summoned-to-testify-as-house-committee-examines-homeless-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454187\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass summoned to testify as House committee examines homeless spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Bass has not publicly commented on the request to appear before Congress.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788587538_22_origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, September 4, 2026 6:31PM<\/p>\n<p>The House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency has summoned Bass to testify Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A congressional subcommittee has asked Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to testify later this month as lawmakers examine how federal funds intended to address homelessness have been spent in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Republican-led House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency has summoned Bass to testify Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The committee claims some nonprofit organizations that received federal funds through the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority may not have used the money as intended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Overnight, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority told the Los Angeles Daily News that it welcomes a congressional review. The agency also said previous investigations found no evidence of fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Bass has not publicly commented on the request to appear before Congress. However, Eyewitness News has learned that the mayor&#8217;s office has received the letter and is preparing a response.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bass has not publicly commented on the request to appear before Congress. Friday, September 4, 2026 6:31PM The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[179403,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-454187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-179403","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454187","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=454187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}