RFK Jr goes nuclear over LAs homeless agency as feds threaten to cut off $240M

Robert F.Kennedy Jr.

brought a flamethrower to Los Angeles Tuesday, blasting the city’s homelessness system as a taxpayer-funded failure and warning that the Trump administration will cut off federal cash to programs that don’t get people off the streets.“We cannot solve homelessness by funding systems that perpetuate it,” Kennedy said at the LA Dream Center.“We will fund programs that get people off the streets, into treatment and recovery, and back to self-sufficiency.”And then he delivered the bottom line:“If a program’s metrics show they are just maintaining people on the streets instead of curing the underlying dependency, their federal funding stops immediately.”Kennedy also unloaded on former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, accusing him of dismantling federal oversight and opening the door to massive fraud.Kennedy claimed Becerra transferred 76 of the 80 oversight workers responsible for monitoring $2.2 trillion in annual HHS payments.That, Kennedy said, was “an invitation for the fraudsters to come in and steal everything.”He blamed the lack of oversight for allowing scammers to bill the government tens of billions of dollars in Los Angeles alone through fraudulent autism services, fake medical equipment and phony hospice accounts.“He let the people steal the money” and “looked the other way while fraud, waste, and abuse exploded,” Kennedy said of Becerra.The HHS secretary vowed the Trump administration would tear up what he called the status quo.“We are going to bring a complete halt to the business-as-usual approach that treats homelessness as a permanent industry.”Kennedy appeared alongside Housing Secretary Scott Turner as the administration threatened to pull roughly $240 million in federal homelessness funding from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.“Our aim is that LAHSA does not receive another dollar until it has accountability,” Turner said.The administration suspended LAHSA from submitting applications...