JACKSON, Miss. — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre, who hasactually paidback simply over $1 million in speaking costs moneyed by a well-being program in Mississippi, is setup to appear before a Republican-led congressional committee that’s takingalookat how states are falling brief on utilizing well-being to aid households in requirement.
The House Ways and Means Committee hearing in Washington is setup for Tuesday. A committee representative, J.P. Freire, verified to The Associated Press on Friday that Favre is arranged to appear and was welcomed by the chairman, Republican Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri.
Favre will take concerns “per the typical witness policy,” Freire stated. However, it’s uncertain how much the Pro Football Hall of Famer may state duetothefactthat a Mississippi judge in 2023 put a gag order on him and others being takenlegalactionagainst by the state.
House Republicans have stated a Mississippi well-being misspending scandal including Favre and others points to the requirement for “serious reform” in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.
“Democrats have stoppedworking to hold a single hearing on TANF or conduct oversight to recognize methods the program might be enhanced,” Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee stated in a November 2022 letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
The letter did not reference that Republicans control the Mississippi federalgovernment now, as they did throughout the well-being misspending scandal that authorities called the state’s biggest public corruption case.
Mississippi has ranked amongst the poorest states in the U.S. for years, however just a portion of its federal well-being cash hasactually been going to households. Instead, the Mississippi Department of Human Services permitted well-connected individuals to waste 10s of millions of well-being dollars from 2016 to 2019, according to Mississippi Auditor Shad White and state and federal districtattorneys.
Favre is