众议院无家可归资金听证：Bass称日程冲突拒绝出席作证，小组主席称传票选项不排除

美国众议院监督委员会下属的「政府效率交付」小组委员会2026年9月15日在华盛顿举行听证会，题为「修复联邦无家可归服务中的欺诈与失败」，审查洛杉矶无家可归者服务局（LAHSA）经手联邦资金的情况。受邀作证的加州洛杉矶县洛杉矶市市长Karen Bass以日程冲突为由未出席，听证会在没有她出席的情况下举行。

这场听证源于小组委员会主席、共和党众议员蒂姆·伯切特（Tim Burchett）9月3日致Bass的信函。信函要求Bass出席9月15日的听证会，并提交自2020年以来与LAHSA「腐败的合同与拨款决定」有关的文件与通信；信中对获得LAHSA拨款的非营利机构人员涉嫌自肥表示关切，并称无家可归问题在Bass任内「变得更糟」。委员会表示，LAHSA自2021年以来获得逾10亿美元联邦资金，仅2024年即达2.2亿美元。据委员会9月10日的备忘录，听证于9月15日下午2时在雷伯恩众议院办公大楼2154室举行，目的是审查联邦无家可归服务中的浪费、欺诈与失败。

Bass方面在听证前夕明确表示市长不会出席。她的法律顾问戴维·迈克尔森（David Michaelson）致信小组委员会称，市长「在该日期没有时间」；Bass在电视采访中表示系日程冲突。市长办公室称，市政府正配合国会的文件调取要求。伯切特方面则警告，若Bass不合作，将动用一切可用手段促其出席；伯切特的发言人表示，发出传票一事「所有选项都在考虑之内」。

听证当天，Bass身在洛杉矶帕利塞兹（Pacific Palisades），出席一场社区娱乐中心项目的动工活动，同场者包括开发商里克·卡鲁索（Rick Caruso）等人。她公开回应说：「让我们把话说清楚：这是特朗普政府及其在国会的盟友对洛杉矶的最新一轮攻击。」她并指出，联邦法官已经阻止了政府抽走洛杉矶无家可归治理资金的企图。伯切特在听证开场时指出，Bass在受邀作证后的那一周退出了LAHSA理事会——她曾于2023年自行出任该局理事。小组委员会称，市政府尚未交齐被要求提交的文件。

听证会上，洛杉矶人权联盟执行主任保罗·韦伯斯特（Paul Webster）与发现研究所高级研究员、记者乔纳森·崔（Jonathan Choe）出庭作证。证词围绕对LAHSA涉嫌欺诈与管理不善的指控展开，包括无法核实联邦资金是否付给了空置的酒店房间等问题。

此事的背景是，HUD已于6月暂停LAHSA的联邦拨款资格，其监察长办公室正就涉嫌欺诈与管理不善展开调查。LAHSA否认有不当行为，表示欢迎审计，未发现欺诈或腐败的证据。Bass本人对LAHSA亦曾表达「严重关切」，但批评联邦暂停拨款可能危及减少无家可归人数的努力。据参与调查的消息人士称，截至9月14日上午，市长办公室尚未提交被要求的文件，提交截止时间为当天下午下班前。

关联：HUD暂停LAHSA联邦拨款资格：监察长立案调查涉欺诈与管理不善，约2.39亿美元申请受阻

关联：洛杉矶无家可归拨款诉讼时间线：LAHSA起诉联邦政府、法院下初步禁令，第九巡回大体驳回HUD暂缓动议

关联：洛杉矶市长 Karen Bass 承认无家可归治理失误：应更早改造体系，主张市府自建独立系统

来源：GSM·美国

House Hearing on Homelessness Funds: Bass Declines to Testify Citing Schedule Conflict as Chairman Keeps Subpoena Option Open

A subcommittee of the U.S. House Oversight Committee held a hearing in Washington on September 15, 2026, titled "Fixing Fraud and Failure in Federally Funded Homelessness Services," examining how the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) handled federal money. Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California, who had been invited to testify, did not attend, citing a schedule conflict, and the hearing proceeded without her.

The hearing grew out of a September 3 letter from the panel's chairman, Rep. Tim Burchett, a Republican, to Bass. The letter asked Bass to testify on September 15 and to produce documents and communications dating back to 2020 related to what it called "corrupt contracting and grant-making" by LAHSA; it raised concerns about alleged self-enrichment among people at nonprofits that received LAHSA funds, and said homelessness "has grown worse" during Bass's tenure as mayor. The committee said LAHSA had received more than $1 billion in federal funds since 2021, including $220 million in 2024 alone. A committee staff memorandum dated September 10 set the hearing for 2:00 p.m. on September 15 in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building, with the stated purpose of examining waste, fraud, and failure in federally funded homelessness services.

Bass's side made clear before the hearing that the mayor would not appear. Her legal counsel, David Michaelson, wrote to the subcommittee that the mayor was "not available on that date"; Bass said in a television interview that she had a schedule conflict. The mayor's office said the city was cooperating with the congressional request for records. Burchett's side warned that if Bass did not cooperate, he and the Oversight Committee's chair would use every tool at their disposal to secure her appearance; a spokesman for the chairman said a subpoena was among "all options on the table."

On the day of the hearing, Bass was in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles for a groundbreaking event for a community recreation center project, alongside developer Rick Caruso and others. She said publicly: "Let's call this what it is: the latest attack on Los Angeles by the Trump Administration and his allies in Congress," noting that a federal judge had blocked the administration's attempt to strip Los Angeles of its homelessness funding. In his opening remarks at the hearing, Burchett noted that Bass had removed herself from LAHSA's governing board the week before, after being invited to testify; she had appointed herself to the commission in 2023. The subcommittee said the city had not handed over all of the documents it had requested.

At the hearing, testimony was given by Paul Webster, executive director of the Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights, and Jonathan Choe, a senior fellow and journalist at the Discovery Institute. Their testimony centered on allegations of fraud and mismanagement at LAHSA, including claims that it could not be verified whether federal dollars were paying for empty hotel rooms.

The backdrop is HUD's June suspension of LAHSA's federal funding eligibility, with the department's inspector general investigating alleged fraud and mismanagement. LAHSA denies wrongdoing, says it welcomes audits, and says it has found no evidence of fraud or corruption. Bass herself has expressed "grave concerns" about LAHSA but criticized the federal funding suspension as a threat to efforts to reduce homelessness. According to a source familiar with the investigation, as of the morning of September 14 the mayor's office had not yet submitted the requested documents, which were due by close of business that day.

Related: HUD Suspends LAHSA's Federal Funding Eligibility: Inspector General Probe Into Fraud and Mismanagement Puts About $239 Million Application on Hold

Related: LA Homeless Funding Lawsuit Timeline: LAHSA Sues, Federal Court Grants Preliminary Injunction, Ninth Circuit Largely Denies HUD's Bid to Pause It

Related: LA Mayor Karen Bass Admits Mistakes on Homelessness: Says She Should Have Transformed the System Earlier, Now Backs a New City-Run System

Source: GSM America

来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）

图片来源：位于华盛顿的雷伯恩众议院办公大楼，9月15日听证会在该楼2154室举行。CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / The Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, where the September 15 hearing was held in Room 2154. CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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