David Fahrenthold Quotes

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

Base closings [are] the most atrocious waste of money I have ever seen in my life.

We are spending altogether too much money for government services which are neither practical nor necessary. In addition to this, we are attempting too many functions and we need a simplification of what the Federal government is giving the people.

The Pentagon is the Poster Child for waste in Government.

The IRS isn't the only agency using taxpayer dollars for big bonuses.

I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.

Both parties in Washington waste too much of your money. When I worked there, I helped expose waste and abuse by government contractors.

This is a government program run amok, and we owe it to the taxpayers to find out exactly what happened before Eagle-Net wastes any more money.

We've got to look at waste, fraud, and abuse across the board.

That's why we don't give the government extra money as conservatives because government generally stinks at spending money. That's why!

There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these people can possibly spend. They have to concoct asinine ways to spend it, like advertising for new food stamp users. I've gotten to the point, I'm just so righteously indignant and offended at the very idea that our government could ever run out of money when we've got a printing press, for crying out loud. Printed three and a half trillion dollars over seven years and flooded Wall Street with it.

I've seen numerous situations where collectors have taken more than the agreed-upon amount from someone's account once they gained access.

The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.

States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they've wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It's only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.

It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.

The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.

We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses.

This is other people's money that Washington is appropriating and spending.

Everywhere you look in Washington, you can find examples of financial mismanagement.

On the IRS website, they claim to be one of the world's most efficient tax administrators. The IRS officials might know how to collect taxes, but surely know how to misspend the funds.

Trillion-dollar bailouts, bloated budgets, and boondoggle spending packages aren't working, at least for my friends and neighbors.

It's clear from what we have already learned that the Obama administration freely used our tax dollars for political purposes, including support of the Soros operation.