Posted on 09/07/2026 7:55:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Karen Bass has said she is not available to testify before a powerful House panel over alleged “waste, fraud and abuse” involving more than $1 billion in federal homelessness funding.
The Post obtained a copy of the letter the mayor’s team sent to the DOGE subcommittee where she shot down their efforts to grill her on cash handed to Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA).
Her legal counsel David Michaelson said “unfortunately the mayor is not available on that date,” in reference to her planned September 15 appearance.
It is not clear what Bass has planned for that date and her team did not expand in the letter.
The DOGE panel last week demanded she appear in front of the 18-member panel to address questions of “waste, fraud and abuse” involving more than $1 billion in federal homelessness given to LAHSA.
The homeless authority was plunged into chaos earlier this year when the federal government switched off the money tap after launching an investigation into false statements, financial management failures and inadequate conflict of interest safeguards.
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Send the Marshals.
That - and she'll blame Trump:
Karen Bass Tries to Blame Trump for Rising Number of Homeless in Los Angeles
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/oh-please-karen-bass-tries-blame-trump-rising/
Los Angeles: Capital of the 3rd World!
"The Number of Homeless People in Los Angeles is RISING Despite Billions in Spending"
Another trip to Ghana or somewhere else in Africa?
Preferably when she least expects it.
When Steve Bannon refused to be questioned by Congress he went to jail. Bass can just say “Sorry, too busy.”
SHUT DOWN EVERY SINGLE PENNY
HAUL HER IN
Unaccountable. It is good to be queen.
Cheating Pratt out of the run off was probably the most brazen election theft of them all. It showed they didn’t even care how bad it looked.
bttt
You mean another trip to Ghana, where she will be picked up by China to be given instructions and then returned to Ghana for the trip back to the USA?
Well, since you’re not “available,” I guess you get to go free.
And she will, because no one has the guts to go after a ghetto rat.
This is all theater. The Republicans have controlled the House since January 2023. They have conducted numerous investigations and hearings, all of which have had no consequential results.
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