State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement.
Today State Auditor Shad White released a compilation of audits conducted by OSA that found over $400 million in waste. This report summarizes various audits OSA has conducted during State Auditor Shad White’s tenure and provides copies of each audit at the end of the report.
“In the last few weeks, we’ve jokingly started calling ourselves MOGE, the Mississippi Office of Government Efficiency, like Elon Musk’s DOGE,” said Auditor White. “As you can see from this 800-plus page report, we approach our work with the same attention to every penny as DOGE, and I’m happy to be Mississippi’s Musk.”
OSA does not have the authority to cut any of the wasteful spending identified in these reports. However, OSA has made recommendations for operational and legal changes that lawmakers and administrators could adopt to save hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds.
Some of the savings highlighted include:
- Medicaid audits showing ineligible beneficiaries receiving benefits and deceased Mississippians remaining on the Medicaid rolls
- Welfare funds spent on speeding tickets, cell phone bills for nonprofit executives, new vehicles, and college football game tickets
- Millions spent on education and health benefits to illegal immigrants
- Millions going to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives
- School districts paying for multiple pieces of software that do the same thing
- Hundreds of millions in unemployment benefits for ineligible people
“This work to find waste is critical, now more than ever,” said Auditor White. “Unfortunately, this is the exact kind of work that a state senate proposal earlier this year would have prevented us from doing. As long as we have this authority, though, we will continue identifying waste in state government to bring Mississippi state government into the modern era. Our future will be bright if state government starts using a little more common sense in how it spends your money.”
67 comments:
Was this an ad?
“This work to find waste is critical, now more than ever,” then pay us more money
Well, Shad, did you refer any of these that are blatantly criminal (like paying for speeding tickets) for prosecution? Yeah. I didn't think so. You just decided to waste the taxpayers' money by release yet another report. Oh, and Shad, I still would like an answer to what Mississippi law provides you with the authority to use agency counsel to represent you where you have been sued only in your personal capacity! Do tell, please!
Who gets to audit OSA asking for a friend.
Shad "You're a liar!" White
Excellent work! Can we also name the directors responsible for approving each line item of waste? And also the vendors that are carrying this out?
Shad gets the creativity award! BTW, I could add a $2 million dollar item to his list (an extremely and obviously wasteful use of taxpayer dollars for a report that will be put on a shelf to collect dust)..
I remember in school turning my work from a previous project, it always ended in a bad grade.
"I'm happy to be Mississippi's Musk". He may live to regret those words.
Musk is a multi-billionaire who will simply laugh and move on if he screws up the country. Shad ain't in that category. He should be more careful what he says.
I don’t want to hear anymore of Shad’s bs grandstanding until he does something about Rankin S.O. He now must make a play on it since it was thrust into his lap by someone else’s investigation . Until then he is just the “boy” that cried wolf.
What agency bought the $6,000 TV he keeps talking about? Where is the TV channel the report claims that MSDWFP operates? I know they produce the show MS Outdoors, but that’s not a TV channel. I’m all about saving taxpayer’s dollars, but facts need to be correct not half truths.
MOGE on, bruh!
I have established MOFO today. Details to come
I propose that at our next meeting of the He-man Woman Haters Club, we pass a rule that if you're from Jones County, you're automatically disqualified for state-wide office in the Republican Party. Can I get a second? /s buckwheat
Does he really think he is Mississippi's Musk. What a Joke he is
Puffery does not look good on you Shad.
Is it possible to be anymore unlikable than Shad White?
Maybe start by taking a look at the top 3 highest paid employees in the Madison County School District. Besides the one that is a doctor, I'm not sure how anyone in a school district can be making that much money, while teachers are making a quarter of that.
Shad is trying really hard to look relevent.
Bless his heart.
The Republic ofJones County only send their best bro!
"we’ve jokingly started calling ourselves MOGE, the Mississippi Office of Government Efficiency, like Elon Musk’s DOGE . . . and I’m happy to be Mississippi’s Musk.”
We didn't elect Elon Musk to be the state auditor, and we didn't elect you to run the state.
Stop all the GOP ass-kissing.
Has the ask the Mayor of Jackson about Misspending ?
Are all of you ill? The Shadster is doing must-do work that no one else wants to take on. Shake um up Shadster!
Is this in addition to all the findings in that report that we paid a third party a mint to do? Or is this just a retread of said report?
Why all the hate when all he has done is find waste and fraud? Looks to me like we should be applauding the findings and stopping the grift.
Why is everyone hating on someone trying to find and remove waste and fraud?? Shouldn't we applaud people actually doing their job?? Asking for a friend.
Sure, he’s kind of nerdy and is awful proud of everything he does, so I see why some of you may not like him, but he’s uncovered a lot of corruption, fraud, and waste of our tax dollars. Ignore these losers, Shad, and keep on Shadding.
$100 million of the "new" findings is nothing more than a retread of the $100 million in TANF misspending that has initially reported by MDHS employees and has been a matter of public record for over five years now -- and even published in Shadrack's self-aggrandizing book. The speeding ticket was paid for by MCEC, not by any state agency. Maybe it was TANF money, maybe not. As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a Maroon!!" Just keep pounding your little chest Shadrack.
Scrolling through the report, and this is nothing more than a rehash of already published reports, many of which are questionable in content. I’ve heard that people have been unable to replicate a lot of the data and numbers in said reports…
Very interesting…
He is joking at work. Therefore, he is wasting time on taxpayers' money by not working while getting paid. Physician, heal thyself.
For someone who wants desperately to be governor, he can't seem to get out of his own way.
Who else but Shadrack could find a whistleblower like Phil to blow the whistle on all that high level TANF fraud?
Sigh, the once golden boy will rapidly end up like Musk, Bondi, Patel, and Trump - who are all rapidly losing the capital they acquired through our vote, and like little fish Shad, have not frog marched one person of importance.
If doctors, etc. cured everyone - Big Medical would be out of business. If everyone turned off the TV and realized they don't need medication, Big Pharma would be out of business. If the good guy catches the bad guy(s), the show is over. It's all a show. It's all fake.
Shad is more of a goober than Andy. Let that sink in. WOW!
I really, really want Shad to be the public servant he has shown he is capable of being.
But I have seen too many examples where grandstanding and political ambition end up in fake personas and ethical bankruptcy. I guess I'm afraid the lure of prestige, power, and money will lead to another public disappointment.
I suspect I'm not the only one here who just wants Shad White to get re-grounded and stay that way.
I'm not even going to bother with Lynn Fitch. She's been full of crap all along.
-2:30
What a joke!! Not just thinking he is "mississippi's Musk", what makes him think that Mississippi wants a Musk f**king things up with no knowledge of how to fix the problems or what the problems actually are?
Shad's trying so damn hard, but his elfish ears are beginning to overshadow his head, even while his ego is swelling that body part.
Harvard is a great school if you want to get sharpened.
Like if you have a big head and want to put a point on it.
Flex Shad, flex.
883 pages? Can't wait for the book.
Shad wants to be the Mississippi Musk but he doesn't drive a Cybertruck?
What a poser!
Did Shad's "Project Momentum" lost it's mometum and his sociual media brain trust decided it needed a new name?
Or was it some other reason?
I'm not sure how to fix this but, electing the State Auditor position is dumb.
Pretty sure Mississippi wouldn't have elected Phil Bryant without all his excellent auditing.
What a dork
“This work to find waste is critical, now more than ever,” said Auditor White as he gazed into the mirror oblivious to the irony.
So much negativity in this forum. Cutting waste and saving taxpayers money is now bad. Next thing you know people will protest to pay higher taxes.
Sometimes I think if Biden and Musk had been pals, and Doge had happened in the last administration, the Left would cheer for his exact same efforts.
And I think the reverse could be said if Trump's tariffs had been Biden's.
That is the only way I can rationalize how liberals can defend USAID and how conservatives can be against many of Shad's policies.
And still not a word about community colleges. If you think some superintendents are overpaid, you haven't seen anything yet. CCs are black holes of taxpayer money, misspending, and waste in those little kingdoms with no oversight whatsoever.
BREAKING NEWS: Mississippi Musk announces his run for governor.
No doubt that many of the anti-White commenters here are also pro-Crawford and anti-Gardner. So boring.
"And still not a word about community colleges. If you think some superintendents are overpaid, you haven't seen anything yet. CCs are black holes of taxpayer money, misspending, and waste in those little kingdoms with no oversight whatsoever. " I have a friend who worked at a major university as an instructor, then took a job at a coast CC saying she makes almost twice as much..! Not sure if anything nefarious is going on, but it seems strange that she would be paid so much more for the same position.
Imagine calling yourself the “Shadster” lol. A lot of these comments are probably from within his own office 😉
No. The Dems are all grifters. None can stand a real audit. None.
MOGE, please put a tariff on welfare benefits.
"So much negativity in this forum. Cutting waste and saving taxpayers money is now bad. Next thing you know people will protest to pay higher taxes"
It's the way he's doing it that sets off all the alarm bells. We've seen this crap before.
"CCs are black holes of taxpayer money, misspending, and waste in those little kingdoms with no oversight whatsoever."
Maybe that explains the Rankin County campus of Hinds Community College, brought to us by none other than Irl Dean Rhodes.
What a clown! Us level-headed republicans can't stand Musk. Shad is self-sabotaging.
The 15 "little" Community Colleges in Mississippi draws down over a BILLION in federal financial aid from Washington D.C. Another $400 million in state funds to prop up the fiefdoms with zero oversight. OVER one-third of this money overlaps with K-12 funding where high schoolers earn "dual college credits" with those dollars in an attempt to "preload and feed" the admissions to the 13th grade Community Colleges. Pure financial rape of Mississippi and national citizens, because they pretty much don't require attendance. Diploma mills at best....in order to pre-load/feed - wait for it......Oxford, Starkville, Hattiesburg, and all the others. Biggest scam in the state.
But....all those jobs!....and they're PERS jobs!
I vote Republican most of the time. How has all of this waste of taxpayer money occurred while Republicans have occupied the governor’s mansion and been in control of the house and senate for decades?
You level-headed Thad Cochran porkulus loving budget deficit spending Republicans have done such a stellar job. Take a bow.
2:39, Some Democrats steal welfare checks, while some Republicans steal the welfare funding.
The difference is four decimal places.
I'm all for what he is attempting to do - reduce financial fraud. It's pretty clear the country has been subsidizing unlimited amounts of corruption - from Medicaid/SS claims to paying "remote" workers who have multiple jobs and do nothing for their federal/state/municipal jobs they got from family/soras. I know this first hand. If we can uproot the highjacking of our tax dollars that benefit grifters, everyone will benefit - at least those who work and those who truly are in need.
It's the fault off all the Dems! I just know they are the blame for all our shortcomings! We have to reverse this democratic majority!
White's message resonates. The establishment GOP in Mississippi is very, very worried.
I thought Shad's job was to fight Mississippi "brain drain."
No they’re not, Shad.
Shad needs to quit playing on social media and trying to get media attention. He needs to spend the people's time doing the job he was elected to do. His arrogance and ego have gotten completely out of control. He is attacking and criticizing people who are on his team and daydreaming of being with Elon and Trump. Nothing but a yappy little chihuahua dog. Far too immature to be governor.
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