State Auditor & Inspector Cindy Byrd disclosed big spending discrepancies within the annual Federal Single Audit in an Aug. 27 press conference inside the Oklahoma State Capitol, focused on Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES).

The Federal Single Audit tracks how responsibly Oklahoma agencies spend federal grant money.

In the post-COVID era, Oklahoma agencies have misappropriated more than $186.4 million, Byrd announced. This year's audit was done on Fiscal Year 2023, in which state agencies reportedly accumulated $93.4 million in questioned costs, more than in FY2020 through FY2022 combined.

Before the pandemic, Oklahoma received about $7 billion from the federal government. That funding almost doubled in the onset of t

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