During a Wednesday appearance on "Rightside Radio," Secretary of State Wes Allen discussed his intention to form a statewide anti-fraud task force, similar in its methods to the former U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), should he become the state's next lieutenant governor.
"You see it around the country, you saw when President Trump came into office, and the DOGE, and all the fraud funding, and Medicaid, Medicare, and all the things throughout the federal government," noted Allen. "It would be naive of us to think that it's not happening somewhere inside the state government. So that's one thing I want to tackle."
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According to Allen, the group will largely consist of government insiders and private sector business leaders specializing in accounting, business operations and finance.
"I want to bring together business leaders from the private sector. I want to bring folks who are already inside government. I want to bring people together to get them around the table," Allen outlined. "Let's solve problems. Let's make sure we are lessening the burden. Making sure that we're saving the people's money in this state, and making sure we are being wise with the taxpayers' money, because that's really important. We don't want waste, abuse and fraud. We don't want that in the government; we want to find it."
He added, "I want to get after that when I'm lieutenant governor, to make sure we are being responsible with the people's money."
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