Steve Hilton launches CAL DOGE to reveal billions in fraud

Republican candidate for California governor Steve Hilton is about to announce Monday plans to launch CAL DOGE in a daring push to root out corruption and expose at the least $250 billion in fraud, The Publish has discovered.

The initiative — modeled after Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity, launched final yr underneath President Trump — will take a wrecking ball to the Democrat-led state authorities, opening up the Golden State’s books, torching paperwork and exposing waste and fraud, Hilton informed The California Publish.

“That is about accountability,” the previous Fox Information host mentioned. “Californians pay the best taxes in America and get the worst outcomes. We now have the best poverty, the best housing prices, the best vitality prices — and a authorities that can’t account for the place the cash goes. That isn’t an accident.”

A key focus of the undertaking might be figuring out methods to scale back or eradicate the dimensions and scope of state companies, roll again bureaucratic and regulatory constructions that drive up prices and finish redundancy. Hilton has additionally launched coverage proposals that, if elected, would come with enacting a state hiring freeze, eliminating 50,000 staff and revisiting contracts for 21 public-sector unions.

Hilton — who used Musk’s AI software Grok to create his CAL DOGE brand — has mentioned he believes fraud in California dwarfs findings in Minnesota.

He blamed Democrats for permitting the state’s bloated finances — Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced plans for $348.9 billion in total spending this month — to develop uncontrolled. California now spends virtually $150 billion greater than it did earlier than Newsom took workplace in 2019.

“That is what you get after 16 years of one-party rule,” Hilton mentioned. “Corruption. Fraud. Abuse. A political machine that takes cash from working Californians and fingers it to political insiders, consultants, and activist entrance teams. CAL DOGE exists to finish that system and exchange it with accountability and reform.”

Jenny Rae Le Roux will function director of CAL DOGE and might be joined by Michael Koslow, a retired senior army chief and former federal regulation enforcement agent; Paul Miner, a former Schwarzenegger administration official and regulatory reform legal professional; and Amy Reichart, a San Diego activist and GOP official acknowledged for her work on authorities accountability and parental rights.

“Fraud is the apparent downside,” mentioned Le Roux, who can also be a enterprise proprietor. “However the root explanation for all fraud is a bloated authorities construction that lacks accountability and creates waste by design. CAL DOGE will expose each and put ahead concrete reforms to make authorities smaller, less complicated, and accountable.”

An advisory board will help CAL DOGE, consisting of Rep. Kevin Kiley, former appellate justice Dan Kolkey, state Sen. Tony Strickland, biotech entrepreneur Houman Hemmati, and journalists Katy Grimes and Jennifer Van Laar. The advisory board will provide steering on proposed reforms and oversee the initiative’s progress.

CAL DOGE will obtain suggestions despatched to Califraud.com, a safe whistleblower platform designed to encourage present and former state staff to report fraud, waste and mismanagement with out worry of retaliation.

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