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Gary Peters: “Your department FY27 request would actually cut these IGs…”

Featuring: Gary Peters, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Michigan

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Gary Peters Presses Todd Blanche About 'Federal Citizenship List' For Elections

Published | Video Starts at 00:59

The study showed that for every dollar that we spend on IGs, it's been estimated the return on that investment is roughly 18 times what we put into the IGS. But despite the administration's purported focus on Fraud, Your department FY27 request would actually cut these IGs, their budget by nearly a third. These are folks that have an 18 to 1 return on investment prior to being in public Service. I spent 20 plus years in the investment business. (00:59–01:07)

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Asserts that the FY27 budget request proposes a nearly one-third cut to inspectors general budgets.

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