Bass skips hearing on L.A. homelessness spending, calling probe politically motivated

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Set us as preferred WASHINGTON — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declined to testify Tuesday before a House subcommittee investigating alleged fraud and mismanagement in the region’s homelessness system, but that did not stop her from going after Republican leaders on the panel.As the hearing began, Bass’ reelection campaign accused “extremist Republicans in Congress” of staging a politically motivated attack on Los Angeles and its efforts to address homelessness, months after the Trump administration attempted to suspend federal funding for the city.“Los Angeles will not be bullied,” Bass wrote.“Not by this President, and not by this Congress.

I’m going to keep doing my job — cleaning up encampments, getting Angelenos inside, and making LA safer.”Bass had notified Rep.Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), the chair of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, on Sept.

4 that she would not be available to testify, but her absence still drew criticism from Burchett, who told The Times he was willing to use the “fullest extent of the law” and possibly issue subpoenas to compel her to testify.“I’d like to get her in,” he said after the hearing.“I realize that we have elections coming up and she knows that as well as anybody ...

but I would hope that she would come up here and answer questions.”Burchett added that there are “legitimate questions” about how federal homelessness funds were used in Los Angeles and what he believes was their mismanagement.In his opening remarks, Burchett said he was concerned about how the city spent federal funds given the ongoing homelessness issue in the area.“Los Angeles is at the center of American homelessness,” Burchett said, and specifically pointed to Skid Row as an example of the “abject failure” of the city’s approach to homelessness.

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