Republicans and Democrats alike decry the lack of oversight for America’s famous antipoverty experiment. ‘Fraud by design.’ ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent estimates up to 10 percent of federal spending gets stolen through fraud. Congress faces ...
A column in the Wall Street Journal last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) and former Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas), titled “Welfare is What’s Eating the Budget,” argued ...
Welfare fraud is often discussed in abstract terms, but for taxpayers the impact shows up in very real numbers that quietly drain federal and state budgets every year. By focusing on three specific ...
Politico reports that the Trump administration is considering a major reorganization of the nation’s welfare programs, especially by shifting food stamps from the Department of Agriculture to the ...
At the same time, the strategy of targeting welfare could help the GOP steer clear of proposing cuts to the popular old-age entitlement programs Social Security and Medicare. In other words, it’s an ...
The U.S. welfare system is broken, and the Minnesota scandal is a blaring warning to that reality. The failure of political leaders on many fronts bears some of the blame. But the main culprit is the ...
I am so thrilled that President Trump has revamped our country's welfare and Medicaid programs. These programs are rife with fraud. Especially in Vermont, we have individuals flooding in from across ...