Golden Fleece Award

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for their slow and incomplete implementation of procedures to secure their data and scientific research. Rep. Hill said, “Years ago, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) was tasked with developing and implementing an agency-wide, minimum… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for their failure to review and restrict certain Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to individuals flagged by the Treasury Department as potentially ineligible before disbursing federal funds, despite agency policies to prevent improper… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for their inability to identify and prevent collusion and other anticompetitive behaviors despite requirements to implement internal controls that manage the risk of fraud.   Rep. Hill said, “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Education (ED) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for poor implementation of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the upcoming 2024-2025 academic year.   Rep. Hill said, “The Department of Education has utterly failed in their rollout of the new simplified FAFSA ahead of the… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Defense (DOD) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for poor management of the military barracks that house many of our nation’s servicemembers, exposing those who protect and defend the United States to unsafe conditions and negatively impacting their quality of life and work performance.   Rep. Hill… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for maintaining poor record-keeping processes of sensitive taxpayer information which may have exposed individual taxpayers to potential identity theft fraud.   Rep. Hill said, “The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has failed to fulfill their… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Education (ED) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for supporting and promoting fiscally irresponsible policies, like debt forgiveness, related to the federal government’s student loan programs.   Rep. Hill said, “The Department of Education has long over-extended the moratorium on student loan… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for their lack of monitoring the practices of Medicare plan sponsors who improperly approved and dispensed transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl (TIRF) drugs, resulting in Medicare recipients receiving these dangerous and addictive… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for their lack of monitoring and enforcing the terms of grants awarded to EchoHealth Alliance (EcoHealth), resulting in a lack of effective oversight of their research that may have led to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rep Hill said, “Due… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for not executing proper control or oversight, resulting in $3.7 billion in improper payments by 21 State Workforce Agencies (SWA) from the Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) program implemented by President Trump in midst of the COVID-19… Read more »