{"id":287611,"date":"2026-09-16T21:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287611\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:36:11","slug":"pennsylvania-republicans-address-efforts-to-prevent-government-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287611\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Republicans address efforts to prevent government waste"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pennsylvania Republicans address efforts to prevent government waste<\/p>\n

\"Tasmin<\/a><\/p>\n

Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity joined other state Republicans Wednesday morning to provide updates on efforts to stop government waste in the commonwealth. <\/p>\n

The group said the focus is on federal money saved during an annual audit for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The audit identified improper payments, including overpayments, duplicate payments, and incorrect amounts sent to ineligible recipients. <\/p>\n

“Last year alone, we prevented about 20,000 payments valued at about 1.4 billion dollars. Putting a halt to these improper payments last year resulted in savings, true savings, of $75 million for Pennsylvania taxpayers,” Garrity said. <\/p>\n

The annual audit examines all programs in the state that receive federal funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Republicans address efforts to prevent government waste Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity joined other state Republicans Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[119674,2479,119677,16197,4034,119675,107,119678,119680,119681,7145,119679,28,30,29,119672,119673,50,7475,119676,43473,6989],"class_list":["post-287611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-annual-audit","tag-commonwealth","tag-duplicate-payment","tag-effort","tag-focus","tag-government-waste","tag-group","tag-improper-payment","tag-incorrect-amount","tag-ineligible-recipient","tag-last-year","tag-overpayment","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-treasurer-stacy-garrity","tag-pennsylvania-taxpayers","tag-politics","tag-saving","tag-state-republicans","tag-state-treasurer-stacy-garrity","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}