Defunding ICE: A Risky Strategy from the Lefts Ahead of the Midterm Elections

By Oladigbo Oluwasogo Olalekan

As President Donald Trump continues to implement one of his major campaign promises deporting illegal immigrants through coordinated ICE and DHS operations across the United States, the Democratic Party appears to be struggling to define an effective opposition strategy without undermining core American values of law, order, and national security.

Historically, U.S. midterm elections often favor the party out of power, with voters using the opportunity to check the sitting administration. However, the upcoming midterms may not follow that familiar pattern. Republicans, under President Trump’s leadership, appear determined to retain control of Congress, fully aware that Democrats are eager to seize on any perceived failure of the administration as a campaign weapon.

So far, those failures have been hard to find.

Frustrated by the Trump administration’s firm stance on immigration enforcement, Democrats appear increasingly desperate for a political opening. That desperation has now taken a controversial turn with renewed calls by the Democrats to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a move that could prove politically dangerous to there success in this year midterms election.

The push comes amid recent events in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where federal authorities uncovered widespread fraud involving daycare programs, with hundreds of Somali nationals reportedly implicated. As ICE agents moved in to enforce the law, violent clashes reportedly broke out, with Antifa-linked agitators attempting to disrupt federal operations. The situation escalated tragically, leading to the death of a 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole, who reportedly died during stampede-related chaos near the scene.

Rather than allowing law enforcement investigations to proceed, Democratic lawmakers appear poised to politicize the tragedy. The Democratic caucus in Congress has now announced support for legislation to defund ICE, a move spearheaded by progressive lawmakers including Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

Using the death of Renee Nicole as a political tool to smear the Trump administration may generate short-term outrage, but it risks alienating a broad swath of American voters especially independents who consistently prioritize border security, public safety, and the rule of law.

This strategy is particularly puzzling given recent electoral history. One of the contributing factors to Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election was the lingering impact of the “defund the police” slogan, which many voters viewed as reckless and disconnected from everyday security concerns. Reviving a similar narrative this time targeting ICE may reopen wounds Democrats would rather forget.

Independent voters, who often decide elections, have repeatedly shown that while they may support immigration reform, they do not support weakening law enforcement agencies tasked with protecting the nation’s borders.

Defunding ICE is not just a political gamble; it is a message that may be interpreted as prioritizing ideology over national security. As the midterms approach, Democrats may want to reconsider whether this path strengthens their appeal or reinforces the very concerns that cost them crucial elections in the past.
Whatever the outcome, the stakes for American democracy, public safety, and political credibility remain high.

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White House Creates DOJ Anti-Fraud Task Force to Protect Taxpayer Dollars

By Family Research Council

Decades of lax immigration policy have resulted in widespread welfare fraud in the U.S., robbing taxpayers of billions of dollars, but President Donald Trump is equipping the Justice Department to target abuse and protect Americans’ investments in state and federal programs. Vice President J.D. Vance announced Thursday that the White House is creating a new role in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), an assistant attorney general (AAG) responsible for investigating and prosecuting fraud across the country, answering directly to the president and vice president.

“We are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” Vance shared in a press conference. “That person’s efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort, because, unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.”

“If you’re a young parent struggling to afford child care in the United States of America, there are programs that we have to make it easier for your kids to get in day care, for your kids to get in preschool,” Vance explained. “Those programs should go to American citizens, not be defrauded by Somali immigrants and others, making it hard for you to get the access to the resources you need,” he continued.

Minnesota’s large Somali immigrant community has become the focal point for fraud investigations in recent months, but the vice president noted that bad actors across the nation have defrauded the federal government and various state governments of billions of dollars through abuse of welfare programs. “We know that the fraud isn’t just happening in Minneapolis. It’s also happening in states like Ohio, it’s happening in states like California.”

In a recent example, Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-Wash.) sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins warning of potential fraud affecting child care and nutrition programs in his state. “Washington families deserve to know their tax dollars are paying for real meals and real care, not padding the pockets of scammers,” Baumgartner wrote.

“Minnesota is a cautionary tale for every state: when state authorities fast-track welfare payments with weak front-end controls and lax enforcement, fraudsters will pounce,” he continued. The congressman clarified that he is not alleging wrongdoing on the part of Washington’s state government, but is seeking “independent confirmation that Washington’s safeguards are working, and if they are not, fix the problems now rather than after a headline-grabbing scandal.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, who was involved in prosecuting the Feeding Our Future fraud cases in Minnesota, lauded the creation of a new fraud division as “a great idea.” He added, “It’s sad that it’s necessary, but I applaud President Trump and his administration for coming up with that idea.” He continued, “It’s really a shame that hard-earned taxpayer money was just wasted on these fraudsters who just spent millions and millions of dollars to support their lavish lifestyles and took money that was meant to go to feed hungry kids and support people finding housing and such.”

“The fraud in Minnesota was widespread. It was a deep rot. It is a deep rot,” Teirab observed, relying on his four years of experience as an assistant U.S. attorney in Minnesota. “The checks and balances in these programs didn’t work. They were designed to be based on the honor system, and a lot of folks had no virtue and so [they] just stole money. It has to stop, so it’s good that there’s now this new anti-fraud unit,” he continued.

Teirab pointed to the Feeding Our Future case as an example of the rampant fraud committed in Minnesota. “That was the big investigation and prosecution of — now it’s over 70 individuals who stole money from the federal child nutrition program, basically said that they were feeding kids, and it was all a lie. They stole over $250 million,” he recounted. “Now we know that was really just the tip of the iceberg. Now, there [are] all other kinds of fraud that the federal government has charged individuals for.”

A White House fact sheet released Thursday detailed the purpose and responsibilities of the DOJ’s new anti-fraud division. “To combat the rampant and pervasive problem of fraud in the United States, the DOJ’s new division for national fraud enforcement will enforce the Federal criminal and civil laws against fraud targeting Federal government programs, Federally funded benefits, businesses, nonprofits, and private citizens nationwide,” the White House clarified. “The Assistant Attorney General for this new division will be responsible for leading the Department’s efforts to investigate, prosecute, and remedy fraud affecting the Federal government, Federally funded programs, and private citizens.”

The anti-fraud AAG will be responsible for managing multi-district and multi-district fraud investigations, aiding other federal prosecutors with fraud cases, and working with multiple law enforcement agencies and federal entities “to identify, disrupt, and dismantle organized and sophisticated fraud schemes across jurisdictions.”

“They’re going to investigate fraud where it should be investigated. So you’re going to have wrongdoers being held accountable and, hopefully, taxpayer money going back into public coffers. That’s a good thing,” Teirab commented of the anti-fraud division’s responsibilities. He also noted that the resources available to the anti-fraud division will effectively supercharge fraud investigations and prosecutions nationwide. “This is way more ability for the federal government to investigate and prosecute widespread fraud and other kinds of crimes,” Teirab noted. “I was a state prosecutor for a while and then a federal prosecutor, and there’s just a big difference in the amount of resources that you can bring to bear in these investigations and prosecutions. So you’re going to deter crime and fraud.”

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) have both been implicated in the Somali immigrant-run fraud schemes fleecing Minnesota’s welfare programs and federal tax dollars. Numerous reports and witnesses have charged Walz and other Minnesota Democrats with knowingly and willingly turning a blind eye to fraud, refusing to investigate or prosecute fraud, and even silencing and threatening whistleblowers, auditors, and investigators.

Teirab expressed his hope that the federal anti-fraud unit is “going to incentivize state actors to get off their butts and actually do something to stop fraud.” He continued, “So now Tim Walz and Keith Ellison, instead of sitting on their hands, they might have a little bit more of an incentive, hopefully politically and literally, to actually do something if they know that the federal government might come in and make them look bad for not getting the job done.” Teirab added, “That’s clearly what’s happened here. I mean, they don’t look good because they didn’t do a good job.”

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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California Screaming is Becoming a Reality

By Karen Schoen

How many of you think that what goes on in California stays in California? NOPE! Boy are we naive if we think that what goes on in California does not affects every state in the Union. It seems as though Californians have taken the “We are stupid” pill and will now pay the price at the pump and pay more for all the goods at the grocery store. Every necessity is about to escalate into the ‘I can’t afford it’ category.

How did that happen? Well, Newsom is a socialist governor who seems to feel that the cost of the regulations he puts in place don’t have any consequences on Californians and certainly don’t affect him. The regulations in AB-5 are about to strangle the 70,000 truckers who just learned they can no longer be independent truckers. AB-5 is forcing them to become W-2 employees of their carriers or be fined. No small businesses for them.

The carrier companies they work for said “No, we cannot afford to W2 these independent truckers who own their own rigs. We’ll leave California.” The truckers said “No, we want to be independent so we’ll leave California!” And a huge portion of the 70,000 independent truckers have left California or are in the process of leaving. The carriers, aka Freight Handlers, who are national corporations said “We’ll leave too. We will move to another state.” Landstar, a national company, issued one statement, “LEAVE.”

So what did Newsom do? He hired illegals to replace the American truckers. What does that mean? It means Americans are at risk from truckers who can’t read English and cause accidents. It means goods sitting at the docks can’t be distributed throughout America. That affects all of us. It also means that Californians lost government funding from the DOT for breaking federal law and hiring illegals.

To add insult to injury, the heavy duty regulations placed on the refineries are causing refineries to leave California. California is about to lose 20% of its power … of its fuel. This is causing gas prices to rise unchecked in California, Arizona and Nevada. Newsom is blaming high profitability on refineries as the cause for escalating prices. His Public Service Commission told him it was due to his regulations. But Newsom is stubborn and does not pay attention and basically doesn’t care. After all he’s rich and can afford high gas prices.

Newsom’s solution, Pay the refineries subsidies to stay in CA. YES those same companies he put out of business will now be subsidized to stay. In addition CA will no be getting oil from ASIA at a much higher price. Newsom is either evil, doesn’t care or has zero common sense.

The question is whether California will be smart enough to choose a different route as they choose their new governor or will they sit back and let the insane regulations of environmentalists destroy everything they worked hard to achieve. Do they care where their taxes are going? That remains to be seen. But, what will that do to the rest of us as the goods pile up on the docks and the prices go higher and higher and higher. CA is filled with waste fraud and abuse. Is this what you want America to look like? If we thought Minnesota was bad just look at what this incompetent, selfish governor did to the once great state of CALIFORNIA. Then ask yourself, “Is this who I want as a president?”

Let’s look around the world and around your state. Has Trump made a difference?

Love him or hate him, one thing is certain, there will never be another President like Trump. Until Trump, our leaders did not respect America or Americans. We were the meat the parasites could eat and drain us until there was nothing left. Americans were the givers and they were the takers. Then along came Trump and things changed. They changed so fast most of us can hardly follow. In this week alone the world changed because President Trump is not afraid to say, “America First”.

The Venezuela incident brought us one step closer to telling the communists the game is over. Hopefully, Maduro will start naming names of the American legislators who looked the other way and got paid handsomely. President Trump told the Venezuelans and the world communists: “You can no longer play in the Western American Hemisphere. We don’t want your criminals or your drugs killing our people. We want the oil back that you stole from American companies when you nationalized the oil. We built your infrastructure. America made you rich. We will do it again. We will arrest the international criminal dictator (NOT the President) destroying your country. We hope that you will have a fair election and until that time we will monitor what those in power do. The people will get justice.”

Do you think Maduro’s capture will cause other dictators to flee?

BREAKING: Khamenei Preparing Escape Route to Russia

Iran’s supreme leader reportedly has devised a back-up plan to flee to Moscow as the uprising against the government intensifies and spreads across the country.

According to an intelligence report, Iran’s supreme leader is preparing for the possible collapse of the Islamic regime. He plans to flee the country for Russia with a group of relatives and aides in the event that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps either fails to crush the ongoing uprising or deserts, Last report, 2 cities were taken by the protestors.

Since that was not enough, Trump turned his sights to America. He told the Defense contractors to stop being such pigs and start investing in their companies to make more products faster. From Truth Social : “All United State Defense Contractors and the Defense Industry as a whole, BEWARE: While we make the best Military Equipment in the World (No other Country is even close!), Defense Contractors are currently issuing massive Dividends to their Shareholders and massive Stock Buybacks at the expense and detriment of investing in Plants and Equipment. This situation will no longer be allowed or tolerated!”

President Trump was not done. He said he will ban large investors from buying single family homes. “People live in homes, not corporations,” he said.

Does that affect you? Look at your county Comprehensive plan. See if they are banning Urban Sprawl – a term made up by the socialists to blame property ownership on white people. Ask your county leaders to define Urban Sprawl. Most will not be able to answer.

Definition: Urban Sprawl, the rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing, single-use zoning, and increased reliance on the private automobile for transportation. Urban sprawl is caused in part by the need to accommodate a rising urban population; however, in many metropolitan areas it results from a desire for increased living space and other residential amenities. Why else would you want to buy a house? own a car? That is the American Dream

DOES your county want to eliminate single family housing in order to shove you into high density easier to control communities. Mamdani and his new housing administrator want to eliminate private property ownership. It is a “white thing” and white neighborhoods should be taxed more. It is imperative that you pay attention to your local county and stop these plans before you can’t.

Under President Trump’s lead, RFK Jr. is doing a great MAHA job. They just upgraded the health food guidelines and added more protein and dairy. The top of the food pyramid is meat. Yeah. I can smell that steak on the grill. Hopefully the insane overreaching regulations on fertilizer and processing will be eliminated and meat prices will drop.

The administration was also busy on the vaccine side. When I was a child we took 7 vaccines over a period of time. Just like the Defense industry, big Pharma decided that stakeholders and executives deserved more money. So rather that making Americans healthy, they made Americans sick. The administration just slashed the recommended vaccines from over 60 to 11. Plus, the vaccines were recommended but not mandated. Funny how the opposition will slant an article. This report from MSN was a joke.

Everything is connected. The fraud in Minnesota is never ending. Snap, Medicaid unemployment benefits, Feeding our Future, Daycare fraud, NGO’s. I read that Craig’s List had a call for child actors to pose in Daycare facilities. Billions of dollars have been stolen from We The People. Please let us not be naive enough to think this is only happening in Minnesota. It is my hope that those criminal leaders involved will be arrested soon. Have you checked your state for fraud?

Why are democrats fighting to prevent the deportation of criminals? Because they are making money as well. Lt. Michael Byrd, who Shot Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, Operates a Taxpayer-Funded Home Daycare as $190 Million in Federal Child Care Funds Flow to Maryland.

I looked for fraud in Florida. I was not really surprised to learn about the dirty politics of the RPOF (Republican Party of Florida). It seems as though the Chairman of the RPOF, Evan Power, is a registered lobbyist with Ramba Consulting.

Of course after learning that, I am not surprised why the RPOF, a private corporation, in charge of supporting GOP candidates, is purging the grassroots from local chapters. In many cases, the refusal to help candidates causes the loss of GOP positions like the Democrat win in the Miami City mayors race. A republican position for over 30 years is now held by a democrat. Who exactly does Evan work for? Certainly not the Florida MAGA, grassroot Republicans. Evan is doing nothing to unite. Does the GOP want to win?

So much has happened this past week I can hardly catch my breath. Join me on this week’s show We will discuss the damage the GOP is doing to Florida with David Kalin in Segment 1. David ran for office and was purged by the RPOF. In segment 2 Ed Vidal will help us understand forgotten history about the true story of Venezuela.

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“I DON’T WANT THEM IN OUR COUNTRY”: Trump Slams Somali Migrants, Calls Ilhan Omar “Garbage,” Warns of National “Tipping Point”

By The Geller Report

Every American should hear this.

President Donald Trump sharpened his criticism of Somali immigrants, telling a Cabinet meeting that he did not want Somali migrants in the United States with close to 90% relying heavily on welfare and offering nothing in return (with the exception of billion dollar taxpayer funded fraud.)

Every word of this is true.

TRANSCRIPT

They contribute nothing.

The welfare is like 88%

They contribute nothing.

I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest with you, somebody say, Oh, that’s not politically correct. I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks. And we don’t want them in our country. I can say that about other countries too. I can say it about other countries too. We don’t want them to help. We got to. We have to rebuild our country. You know, our country’s at a tipping point.

We could go bad. We’re in a tipping point. I don’t know if people mind me saying that, but I’m saying it. We could go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage.

These aren’t people that work. These aren’t people that say, ‘let’s go. Come on. Let’s make this place great.’ These are people that do nothing but complain. They complain and from where they came from, they got nothing. You know, they came from Paradise, and they said, this is in paradise. But when they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it you.

Americans who remain unaware—or willfully blind—do so at their own peril.

President Trump said what no one else would say out loud, and said it without flinching. No euphemisms. No consultant-approved language. Just the truth, warts and all.

They contribute nothing.

They take.

They complain.

They erode.

And when told it’s “not politically correct,” he didn’t retreat—he rejected the premise. Political correctness is how nations die.

We are at a tipping point. That is not rhetoric; it is reality. A country can go one way or the other, and we go the wrong way when we import dysfunction, grievance, and hostility to the civilization that took people in.

This isn’t about race.

It isn’t about compassion.

It’s about survival.

Trump says what millions know instinctively but are bullied into silence for saying. He refuses to lie to make comfortable people feel virtuous. He refuses to pretend that nations collapse by accident. They collapse by choices.

What a gift—to hear the truth spoken plainly, without varnish. What a gift to have a leader who doesn’t perform sincerity but lives it. He is so real he feels unreal.

I believe God sent him—not because we deserved him, but because God hasn’t given up on us yet.

And yes—he’s funny. Razor-sharp, fearless, human. I used to say the world was okay because my father was still in it. I feel that way about Trump. Different men, same spine. Same refusal to bend to lies.

In an age of frauds, he is the real thing.

Trump on Somalis: ‘I don’t want them in our country’

President Donald Trump commented on Gov. Tim Walz and immigrants from Somalia during his cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon, saying: “They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest with you.”

‘Their country is no good for a reason. Your country stinks and we don’t want them in our country… Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage.’

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller 

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Ilhan Omar’s Marital Deception and Financial Fraud

By Amil Imani

The political career of Rep. Ilhan Omar is defined by a pattern of calculated legal manipulation and systemic financial misconduct.

While her supporters often attempt to frame these issues as personal oversights, the documented evidence reveals a history of deliberate fraud involving her marriages, her tax filings, and the exploitation of campaign resources for personal enrichment.

The most striking instance of Omar’s disregard for U.S. law is her 2009 legal marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Despite Omar’s insistence that Elmi is a stranger, a significant body of evidence, including social media records and school documents, identifies Elmi as her biological brother. This marriage was not a union of affection but a strategic sham designed to secure a green card and eventual U.S. citizenship for her sibling.

While legally married to Elmi, Omar continued a domestic life and fathered children with another man, Ahmed Hirsi. This overlapping timeline exposes the 2009 marriage as a fraudulent tool used to circumvent federal immigration statutes. By entering into a legal contract with her own brother, Omar committed both incest and marriage fraud — felonies that under standard enforcement would lead to immediate denaturalization and deportation. Her refusal to release DNA records or birth certificates suggests the reality of this deception.

Omar’s fraudulent activity extends directly into the federal and state tax systems. In 2019, an investigation by the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board (MCFB) forced Omar to admit to filing joint tax returns with Ahmed Hirsi in 2014 and 2015. At the time of these filings, she was still legally married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.

This was a calculated act of tax fraud. By filing jointly with a man who was not her legal husband, Omar intentionally misrepresented her household status to the government. Minnesota law is clear: common-law marriage is not recognized. Omar’s “joint” filing was an illegal attempt to gain tax advantages. She was subsequently ordered to pay back thousands in unpaid taxes and faced formal penalties for her dishonesty.

The MCFB investigation also uncovered Omar’s habit of treating donor contributions as a personal slush fund. She was caught using campaign money to pay for personal travel — including trips to Boston and Estonia — and for personal legal services. These are not clerical errors; they are direct violations of campaign finance laws that forbid the use of political donations for a candidate’s lifestyle.

The financial exploitation worsened after she took federal office. Omar funneled nearly $3 million in campaign funds into the pocket of her current husband, Tim Mynett, through his consulting firm, E Street Group. This arrangement allowed Omar to bypass ethical standards, effectively transferring donor money directly into her own household’s wealth.

As of January 2026, Omar is under renewed pressure as federal investigators widen their probe into the $9 billion “Feeding Our Future” fraud scheme in Minnesota. This massive theft of taxpayer funds, centered in the Somali community Omar represents, involved the fabrication of thousands of “ghost children” to steal pandemic meal money.

While Omar claims she had no part in the theft, the facts tell a different story. Multiple individuals convicted in this multi-billion-dollar heist were prominent donors to her campaign. Furthermore, her husband’s various business ventures — ranging from a California winery to obscure venture capital firms — have seen their reported value skyrocket from nearly zero to $30 million in a suspiciously short period. This sudden explosion of wealth, occurring while the surrounding community was being pillaged by fraud, points to a deeper involvement in the corrupt financial networks of her district.

In January 2026, a report by The Gateway Pundit revealed that Omar attempted to slip a one million dollars funding provision into a recent spending bill, which was directly linked to organizations currently under federal investigation for fraud. This move was a brazen attempt to use taxpayer dollars to bail out or further fund the same corrupt networks involved in the “Feeding Our Future” scandal. This legislative maneuver confirms that Omar’s priority is not public service, but the continued financing of the criminal enterprises that support her political machine.

Omar’s current husband, Tim Mynett, is a defendant in a January 2026 lawsuit alleging he defrauded investors of $300,000 through a wine business. This lawsuit highlights a double standard: while Omar frequently uses her faith to secure political support, her household actively profits from the sale of alcohol — a practice strictly forbidden (haram) in the very faith she champions. This hypocrisy further illustrates that for Omar and Mynett, religious and legal rules are merely tools to be discarded when they interfere with profit.

Ilhan Omar’s history is not one of “mistakes,” but of a career built on the deliberate subversion of American law.

From marrying her brother to defraud immigration authorities to filing fraudulent tax returns and siphoning campaign cash into her husband’s bank accounts, her record is a testament to systemic corruption. As federal probes into the $9 billion Minnesota fraud continue to close in, the facade of her political legitimacy is rapidly collapsing.

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TRADE SHOCK: Trump Slashes U.S. Deficit in Half — Lowest in 15 Years

By The Geller Report

While Democrats and their media lapdogs wail about “affordability” and chant that the sky is falling, the numbers keep humiliating the experts.

Under President Trump, the U.S. trade deficit has been cut in half—plunging to roughly $29.4 billion, the lowest level in nearly two decades. Even CNBC sounded stunned, admitting on air that the deficit collapsed from $136 billion in March to under $30 billion—territory so rare they “don’t have enough records to go back that far.” This isn’t spin. It’s math. And it’s yet another case where the so-called experts were dead wrong.

Trump—and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—were right. The results are undeniable.

Reuters: The U.S. trade deficit just collapsed to $29.4B (October 2025)—the lowest since 2009—as imports fell and exports hit a record.

Inflation has also cooled from where the panic-peddlers insisted it would stay: the CPI is up 2.7% year-over-year (through November 2025) and core inflation is 2.6%.

Bureau of Labor Statistics: And even with nonstop doomcasting, the labor market isn’t “crashing” the way they promised—unemployment is still in the mid-4s, not spiraling. (Reuters) In other words: the narrative is collapsing faster than the deficit—and the people who spent years sneering at Trump’s agenda are being forced, again, to confront reality.

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just cut the US trade deficit IN HALF, lowest in nearly 2 decades, CNBC is in total shock!

“Buckle up, THIS IS UNREAL. -$29.4 billion, we cut it IN HALF!”

“In March it was $136B. Now, under $30B. We haven’t been that small in a long time – I… pic.twitter.com/kwVslzcCKr

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 8, 2026

Boom.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Four Takeaways as Congress Investigates Walz, Minnesota Fraud

By The Daily Signal

Congress probed the matter of what Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz knew about the $9 billion fraud scandal in his state at a hearing on Wednesday.

Several Minnesota state lawmakers, who have investigated fraud in the state for the past year, testified at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about what they learned from whistleblowers.

They testified two days after Walz dropped his reelection bid for a third term as governor amid years-long welfare fraud scandals in the state. Federal prosecutors have charged almost 100 in Minnesota so far with welfare fraud.

The witnesses claimed that Gov. Walz knew about fraud scandals as they were occurring, alleged that the state intimidated whistleblowers, and broached the possibility of funding of foreign terrorism.

Here are four key takeaways from Wednesday’s hearing.

1. ‘Any Doubt That Tim Walz Knew?’

The scandal hit home for House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., who blamed Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison for not preventing it.

He asked the members of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee if they believed Gov. Walz knew about the fraud as it occurred.

The three state committee members were Chairwoman Kristin Robbins, and state Reps. Walter Hudson and Marion Rarick. Each said they had no doubt, or “none whatsoever,” that Walz knew.

Later, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., asked Robins, “Do you have any examples of how the Walz administration blocked investigators from moving forward?”

Robins said that an inspector general investigation of the state’s human services department–at the center of the state’s fraud scandals–was shut down.

“They were told they could no longer do criminal investigations,” Robins said.

For his part, Walz has said he is trying to root out fraud, and did not benefit from it.

2. ‘Constant State of Fear of Retaliation’

Minnesota state Rep. Marion Rarick, a Republican member of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee, gave several examples of state bureaucrats intimidating whistleblowers.

“They have explained that they live in a constant state of fear of retaliation,” Rarick said.

She gave the example of a state employee who notified supervisors at the Department of Human Services about “sloppy contracting practices,” and who was subsequently escorted from the building.

“In our face-to-face meetings with a group of whistleblowers, they reveal that retaliation now includes threats of being fired with cause, which means you do not get unemployment insurance in the state of Minnesota, being blacklisted from all state agencies,” Rarick continued.

Rarick noted that In April 2024, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan publicly called state employees who raised concerns about potential fraud “weirdos and losers sitting in their mother’s basement.”

3. Evidence of Terrorism Funding

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., asked about financial ties of fraudulent welfare recipients to international terrorist networks. Robins said that an informal network of money exchangers transmits money to Somalia.

“So, United States dollars that have been remitted into Somalia, in part, have been utilized, or have fallen into the hands of Al Shabbab?” Donalds asked Robins.

Al-Shabaab is a Somalia-based terrorist network linked to Al Qaeda.

Robins answered, “We have plenty of evidence of that from money directly going to Al-Shabbab, but then also indirectly because they take a cut of whatever gets sent to Somalia.”

4. Trump, George Santos, and Anything but Minnesota

Democrats on the committee used most of their time to talk about President Donald Trump and subjects other than the Minnesota fraud scandal.

Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said, “some of the worst fraud and corruption is actually found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., called the witnesses “hypocrites” and asked them to comment on expelled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., as well as the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the Capitol.

After Pressley exceeded her allotted time, Comer stopped her to say, “You’ve already secured your MSNBC spot tonight.”

Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., was one of the only Democrats to acknowledge the Minnesota fraud, saying, “This, of course, comes after weeks of viral videos from a young man YouTuber who was literally creeping around daycares by himself.”

The lone Democrat-called witness, Brendan Ballou, former special counsel for the Justice Department, said, “I fear that the actions of a few people will be used to demonize an entire population, Somali, East African, Minnesotans.”

Robins said exposing fraud was not targeting the Somalian population.

“It is true that the majority of the fraud in Minnesota has taken place in the Somali community, and it is also true that some of our best whistleblowers are from the Somali community,” Robins said.

AUTHOR

Fred Lucas

Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections.” Send an email to Fred. Fred on X: @FredLucasWH

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Tim Walz Claims He Fired People Amid Fraud Scandals—But Won’t Name Names

By The Daily Signal

Embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, when announcing his decision not to run for reelection, said Monday that he has fired people for failing to combat his state’s many fraud scandals, but his office has declined to list the bureaucrats fired.

“We’ve fired people who weren’t doing their jobs,” he wrote in a statement Monday, in the context of combatting fraud.

The Daily Signal reached out to Walz’s office for a list of bureaucrats fired amid the fraud scandals, but the governor did not respond by publication time.

State Rep. Patti Anderson, a Republican and vice chair of the Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee, told The Daily Signal she is “unaware of anyone who has been fired in regard to the ongoing fraud.”

Of Walz, she said, “I think he’s assuming that people are going to take his statement at face value and not look and see the fact that he hasn’t terminated a single person that allowed the fraud to happen.”

Anderson served as state auditor from 2003 to 2007, and then as commissioner of employee relations under the state’s last Republican governor, Tim Pawlenty. She told The Daily Signal, “It’s impossible that Walz himself wasn’t aware” of the fraud and alleged attempts to enable it.

“These things don’t just happen,” she said.

Walz’s tenure has been tainted with several fraud scandals, most notably a $250 million fraud scheme where the Minneapolis nonprofit Feeding Our Future reported fake food distribution sites while collecting federal child nutrition assistance. The office of U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen has charged at least 78 defendants connected to the scheme, and 56 of them have pleaded guilty.

Authorities have also filed charges in a $14 million fraud case involving an autism program and a multi-million dollar fraud case involving housing stabilization services.

One federal prosecutor has estimated Medicaid fraud in the state to have exceeded $9 billion.

Anderson said that whistleblowers, who have spoken with her committee, approached bureaucrats at many levels of Walz’s administration but were rebuffed. In a previous statement to The Daily Signal, the state’s Department of Human Services denied claims of retaliation against whistleblowers.

Bill Glahn, a policy fellow with the conservative-leaning Center of the American Experiment, noted that many staff have left Walz’s administration since the first indictments in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal in 2022, but added that Walz did not fire them; he instead allowed their appointments to expire.

“The governor now claims credit, well after the fact, for holding his appointees accountable for not stopping the fraud,” Glahn told The Daily Signal. “However, that’s not how these events were portrayed at the time.”

With Glahn’s help, The Daily Signal identified three bureaucrats who left Walz’s administration after the first indictments in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal were issued in September 2022. Walz did not state that fraud had anything to do with their departures.

1. Heather Mueller

Heather Mueller, former commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education, claimed before a state Senate committee that a judge ordered the department to resume payments to Feeding Our Future despite serious fraud concerns. The judge released a rare public statement emphatically denying any such order.

Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Jeremy Miller, a Republican, publicly called on Mueller to resign in September 2022.

Two months later, Gov. Walz and Lt. Gov. Petty Flanagan announced that Mueller had “chosen not to seek reappointment” in Walz’s second term.

In a press release thanking Walz’s cabinet for their service, the governor’s office gave Mueller a glowing endorsement.

“The governor and lieutenant governor are grateful for Dr. Mueller’s continued focus on helping all Minnesota students have access to a world-class education,” the release states.

2. Jodi Harpstead

Jodi Harpstead, commissioner of the Department of Human Services, also left Walz’s office amid the Feeding Our Future scandal, but Walz made no mention of fraud related to her departure.

“I want to extend my deepest thanks to Commissioner Harpstead for answering the call of public service five and a half years ago,” Walz said in a Jan. 13, 2025, press release. “I am proud of her work running the most complex and wide-ranging agency in state government.”

3. Eric Grumdahl

On Sept. 17, ahead of a hearing before the fraud prevention committee in which top housing regulator Eric Grumdahl was scheduled to testify, the agency notified the committee that Grumdahl had been terminated. The Department of Justice has brought fraud charges in housing cases.

A spokesperson for Grumdahl’s former office confirmed his ouster to CBS News, and cited a law stating the reasons for an employee’s separation are not public data.

According to Minnesota statutes, disciplinary action against a bureaucrat is considered public information if the bureaucrat resigns or is fired amid charges.

Rep. Kristin Robbins, a Republican and chair of the fraud committee, said at the time that she was “stunned” to hear the news.

“This is yet another example of DHS and the Walz administration dodging accountability for their failures,” Robbins said.

AUTHOR

Tyler O’Neil

Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” Tyler on X: @Tyler2ONeil.

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How to Build AI Agents That Actually Work

By A.I. Guys

Building an AI agent is easy. Deploying one that actually works inside a real business is not.

In this episode of the AI Guys Podcast, Lee Dickson and Rich Swier walk through a practical, end-to-end framework for building AI agents that deliver real value. The conversation breaks down what most teams get wrong, why AI agents fail after launch, and how to think about data, training, integrations, testing, and long-term maintenance the right way.

This episode serves as a crash course for teams looking to move beyond demos and proofs of concept and into production-ready AI agents that scale.

Key Takeaways:

  1. What an AI agent really is and how it differs from a chatbot
  2. Why most AI agent failures come down to poor training and data prep
  3. How to identify and structure your true source of truth
  4. Why integrations are critical for autonomy and ROI
  5. How to test, backtest, and simulate agents before launch
  6. The importance of human-in-the-loop monitoring after deployment
  7. How to choose the right first AI agent use case

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“SEIZE PRIVATE PROPERTY!”: Mamdani Appoints Communist Radical to Run Housing, Blasted Homeownership As ‘White Supremacy’

By The Geller Report

If the goal was to euthanize New York real estate, Zohran Mamdani couldn’t have executed it more efficiently. His newly appointed tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, has a documented record of calling to “seize private property,” denouncing homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy,” and urging voters to “elect more communists.” These are not fringe comments—they are the ideology now embedded inside City Hall. Weaver, a Democratic Socialists of America activist and longtime Mamdani adviser, has openly attacked landlords, law enforcement, and the concept of private property itself, while helping push some of the most punitive rent laws in the city’s history. Pair that with Mamdani’s plan to freeze rents on one million apartments, expand enforcement hearings, and empower activist bureaucracies, and the message to investors, homeowners, and developers is unmistakable: get out. With City Hall openly hostile to ownership and capital, the only rational question left is not what to buy in NYC—but who, in their right mind, would buy here now?

Appointing a “seize private property” communist and freezing rents on a million units is not reform—it’s destruction.

Ayn Rand: “Man has to work and produce in order to support his life. He has to support his life by his own effort and by the guidance of his own mind. If he cannot dispose of the product of his effort, he cannot dispose of his effort; if he cannot dispose of his effort, he cannot dispose of his life. Without property rights, no other rights can be practiced. The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.”

Zohran Mamdani’s new NYC tenant advocate called to ‘seize private property,’ blasted homeownership as ‘white supremacy’

By Carl Campanile, NY Post, Jan. 4, 2026, 6:45 p.m. ET

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed tenant advocate called to “seize private property” and blasted homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” in a series of pro-Communist social media posts.

Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, made the statements and urged her followers to elect more Communists in several lecturing posts on her now-deleted X account that were unearthed by internet sleuths.

“Seize private property!” she said on June 13, 2018.

Weaver also pushed to “Elect more communists” in December 2017 — when a Harlem street corner was being renamed in honor of former Manhattan Rep. Vito Marcantonio, who was a Communist.

Weaver called homeownership a “weapon of white supremacy” in a 2019 X post.

Weaver, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and former campaign coordinator for Housing Justice For All, also served as an adviser to the Mamdani campaign in 2025.

The Post featured her as part of a group of young lefty progressives in Mamdani’s brain trust.

She was a key player in lobbying the Democrat-run state Legislature to tighten the city’s rent stabilization laws in 2019, making them more pro-tenant.

One major property owner said Mamdani and Weaver are misguided.

Continue reading.

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Pamela Geller

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DOGE WAS RIGHT: HUD Finds $5+ Billion in Fraud in One Year Under Biden—Dead Tenants, Fake IDs, Inactive Accounts Paid

By The Geller Report

You can begin to understand why the swamp fought Elon Musk and DOGE so hard.

HUD officials say the majority of some $5 billion in fraudulent rental aid in 2024 went to New York, California and D.C. — though dead people from all 50 states got paid.

HUD just found $5 BILLION+ in FRAUDULENT payments in 2024 alone, under Biden.

Payment error of over 11% PERCENT.

  • $5.2 BILLION to inactive accounts
  • $77M to deceased tenants
  • $150M to nonexistent Social Security numbers
  • $288M to excessively high rent

A new HUD Agency Financial Report reveals more than $5 billion in potential fraudulent and improper rental-assistance payments in 2024 alone, underscoring why entrenched bureaucracies fought oversight efforts like DOGE so aggressively.

According to HUD, payment errors exceeded 11% across federal housing programs under  Joe Biden’s administration. The findings include $5.2 billion paid to inactive accounts, $77 million sent to deceased tenants, $150 million tied to nonexistent Social Security numbers, and $288 million for excessively high rents. Fraudulent payments were concentrated in New York, California, and Washington, D.C., though improper payments were identified in all 50 states.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner said the losses were enabled by weak financial controls and process failures, calling the abuse “massive” and effectively incentivized by the prior administration’s lack of oversight. For the first time, HUD used advanced data analytics to review all Tenant-Based and Project-Based Rental Assistance payments, uncovering systemic weaknesses and triggering a formal disclosure of material financial risk.

The report covers just one year. If the error rate held across the full term, the total losses could be staggering. The findings reinforce calls to aggressively audit and overhaul federal housing programs—what critics summarize bluntly as the need to “DOGE housing.”

In short: billions vanished, accountability was absent, and only now—after leadership and oversight changed—has the scope of the damage come into view.

WASHINGTON — Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner released HUD’s Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Agency Financial Report (AFR) to Congress, which detailed significant misuse of taxpayer funds under the Biden administration including potential payment errors totaling more than $5 billion.

For the first time ever, HUD’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) used advanced data analytics to examine all Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) and Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) payments made in 2024. Through a series of internal management reviews, HUD identified significant potential improper payments, process gaps, and material weaknesses.

“A massive abuse of taxpayer dollars not only occurred under President Biden’s watch, but was effectively incentivized by his administration’s failure to implement strong financial controls resulting in billions’ worth of potential improper payments,” said Secretary Turner. “HUD will continue investigating the shocking results and will take appropriate action to hold bad actors accountable. Additionally, the Department is advancing efforts made under President Trump’s first administration to strengthen program integrity and ensure taxpayer-funded assistance serves the vulnerable communities it was intended for.”

INFOGRAPHIC: Total Payment Integrity Unknown Payment Estimate

After identifying process gaps and weaknesses, HUD disclosed a material weakness to be transparent about the inherent risks that existed under the Biden administration and to establish accountability for fixing financial oversight moving forward. HUD will continue to implement new processes to track how Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) and HUD-funded grantees spend the funds they receive, ensuring efficiency, transparency, and accountability at every level.

Background:

The AFR is HUD’s annual report on how the department manages public funds.
HUD’s rental assistance programs provide critical housing support to deserving communities across the nation:
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) program helps families afford safe housing through vouchers they can use in the private market.

Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) program provides rental subsidies tied to specific properties to ensure long-term affordability.

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Pamela Geller

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The Nine-Billion-Dollar Somali Fraud

By Jihad Watch

The nine billion dollars that a network of nearly a hundred Somali-Americans in Minneapolis stole from American taxpayers is the largest fraud — forget about the Yazoo Land and the Teapot Dome scandals — in American history. The investigation is still going on, and still more frauds may be discovered, and other Somalis may emerge as participants. But it’s not too early for a summing up, at this stage, of the story so far, which you can find here: “Minnesota’s Somali-linked scams drain US taxpayers of a sum rivaling Somalia’s GDP: Read how the welfare system was gamed in a multi-billion-dollar fraud,” by Rukma Rathore, OpIndia, December 30, 2025:

With around 80,000 residents, Minnesota hosts the biggest Somali diaspora in the United States. Many of them are refugees from the civil war that has raged in their native nation since 1991. They moved to Minneapolis and its suburbs, enticed by meatpacking jobs, Lutheran charity networks, and a more generous welfare system than others.

The civil war in Somalia is over. Shouldn’t our government now insist that those who claimed “refugee status” because they fled that civil war, and have not become citizens, now be asked to return home? After all, they are “refugees” no longer. And shouldn’t those Somali-Americans who may be citizens, but are shown to have taken part in this immense series of frauds while they were applying for American citizenship, now be stripped of their citizenship?

Notably, anti-India Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is also of Somali descent. However, the community has often come into the spotlight following significant scandals that erupted concerning Minnesota’s social programmes. An astounding $9 billion is the anticipated overall damage, which is close to Somalia’s entire GDP.

It was also determined that of the 98 defendants indicted and over 60 convictions in significant fraud cases across the state, 85 are either Somali Americans or of Somali heritage.

The truth comes to light
On 27th December, the issue surfaced after Nick Shirley, a 23-year-old YouTuber, exposed the pervasive fraud at childcare centres run by Somalis using publicly accessible data from the Minnesota Department of Human Services. These facilities had received millions in government subsidies, but the footage showed deserted playgrounds, blacked-out windows, closed doors at licensed daycares and angry employees who screamed or ran away when confronted.

A woman even yelled, “Don’t open up, it’s ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).” A neighbour also attested that no kids had been spotted there in eight years. Shirley stated, “This could be the largest fraud scandal in US history,” during his investigation. He pointed out that federal and state funding were diverted to businesses that had negligible or no operational history….

It was a 23-year-old investigator, Nick Shirley, and not anyone working for the state of Minnesota, who managed to supply the evidence of empty childcare centers that had received $110 million in state aid, which turned out to be a small part of the massive fraud. A coup for Mr.Shirley, and a great embarrassment for the state government, including Governor Tim Walz, who had continued to sing the praises of the Somali community against those who expressed alarm over its role in the fraud.

In addition to whatever punishment — prison time and large fines — these fraudsters may receive, there is a further punishment now being considered: stripping the fraudsters of their American citizenship, and, after they have served their sentences, deporting them back to the hellhole of Somalia, which will be a source of great anguish for them.

It would have been bad enough had the original figure of $1 billion stolen by fraudsters not increased first to $3 billion, then to $5 billion, and now to a scarcely believable sum of $9 billion. But still worse is the fact that much of that money ended up in the hands of Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group in Somalia that has links to Al Qaeda. The Minnesota taxpayer has thus been helping to fund Al-Shabaab, and hence, also, Al-Qaeda. The two government officials most responsible for this state of affairs are Walz and the state’s Attorney General, Keith Ellison. One hopes this will put a stake through the heart of their political ambitions. Given their failures to investigate, or even to admit to, the Somali scandal, Walz and Ellison ought to be finished as politicians. But who knows? The scandal-ridden Ilhan Omar was a friend to at least one of the Somalis, a restaurant owner who was involved in the fraud. Yet Omar still riding high, still sure to be reelected by her Somali-heavy electorate.

“I wouldn’t be proud to have the largest Somalian – look at their nation. Look how bad their nation is. It’s not even a nation. It’s just people walking around killing each other. Look, these Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country. Billions and billions,” Trump later outlined.

“Those Somalians should be out of here. They’ve destroyed our country,” he further stated. “Go back to your own country and figure out your constitution. All she (Omar Ilhan) does is complain about this country, and without this country, she would not be in very good shape. She probably wouldn’t be alive right now. Somalia is considered by many to be the worst country on Earth. I don’t know. I haven’t been there, I won’t be there anytime soon, I hope,” the president added.

The Trump administration intends to deploy additional federal agents to Minneapolis with the authority to target Somalis, especially those who have final deportation orders.

Does anyone take issue with Trump’s description of Somalia? Isn’t it, by every measure, including the World Happiness Index, the Religious Freedom Index, the Corruption Barometer, the Violence Scale, close to being “the worst country on Earth”? Why import into the U.S. any more of those people who come, according to many foreign observers besides Trump, from the “worst country in the world”? And after this nine-billion-dollar loss of government aid money meant for the poor, to Somali immigrant scammers and their progeny, isn’t it time to halt all immigration from Somalia, and to insist that all Somalis convicted of crimes will, at the conclusion of their sentences, be stripped of American citizenship (if they managed to acquire it), and be sent back to their hideous country of origin on the Horn of Africa?

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Social Security Administration Offers Receipts To Dispute WaPo Hit Job

By The Daily Caller

The Social Security Administration is disputing a Washington Post report that claims the agency and system got worse under President Donald Trump.

The Washington Post published a story on Tuesday based on “internal documents and interviews with 41 current and former employees, advocates and customers” about how the system has suffered in both “responsiveness and trust” under the Trump administration. According to email correspondences and statements shared with the Caller, the Social Security Administration disputed much of the “findings” to the outlet.

“After our transparent and thorough responses, it is disappointing that the Washington Post was unwilling to include any facts that contradicted the politically-driven narrative against the Trump Administration,” a Social Security spokesperson told the Caller.

“The Social Security Administration under President Trump’s leadership is serving more Americans than ever before at quicker speeds, and meeting customers where they want to be served. Through technology improvements and modernization, more Americans are choosing to easily and quickly manage their benefits online or over the phone.”

The spokesperson added that the article disregarded “the historic improvements” the administration has made to help customers via the internet and by phone.

“The average speed of answer for the National 800 Number has been in the single digits the last five months,” a spokesperson continued, adding that sixty-five percent more calls were answered in FY 2025 compared to FY 2024.

The Washington Post report states that phone service by the SSA “improved in the second half of the year but is still subpar.” Ahead of publication, the SSA provided an audit to the Post showing how the “average speed of answer for the National 800 Number has been in the single digits the last five months.”

The audit also shows that nearly 90 percent of customers were satisfied with the SSA, a fact that a spokesperson said disputes the Post’s reporting.

The article also highlights worsening “bottlenecks,” noting that the agency argued those bottlenecks had improved. The SSA told the Caller that they actually made “massive improvement” which was “buried.”

“Reducing the backlog at processing centers, enabling 24/7 website access after inheriting 29 hours of weekly downtime, and serving more Americans at faster speeds is not something to be thrown in after undermining SSA,” a spokesperson told the Caller in a statement.

For the story, the Washington Post also interviewed Sen. Elizabeth Warren who has called for a request for an audit.

“We’ve kept up the pressure and held Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Frank Bisignano accountable for the chaos they’ve caused,” Warren said in the interview.

Under @POTUS, Social Security is serving MORE Americans FASTER than ever before!
☎️ SINGLE digit answer speeds
📈 65% MORE calls answered
🕛 30% SHORTER field office wait times
📉 Disability claims backlog DOWN 33% from all-time high https://t.co/BoG0Mgz7vc

— Social Security (@SocialSecurity) December 30, 2025

The SSA responded to Warren’s quote in a statement to the Caller, telling the outlet that Commissioner Bisignano has responded to Warren’s request for an audit in previous letters.

The Washington Post also reported that the audit published by the Social Security inspector general’s office on Dec. 22 “confirmed that millions of callers requesting callbacks were counted as zero-minute waits by the agency.”

The SSA noted to the Caller that the methodology used to measure Average Speed of Answer (ASA) is key to understanding the data.

“It is calculated as follows: for customers who choose to wait in the queue for an agent, it is the total time spent in queue divided by the number of calls answered by agents. For customers who choose the convenience of a callback, we count only the time the customer waited in queue before electing a callback divided by the number of callbacks answered by agents. The combined result is the average speed of answer,” SSA told the Caller.

“Omitting that this methodology has existed for more than a decade is dishonest and undermines the work of the dedicated career public servants who provide the data. Moreover, the average wait time to callback has been nearly cut in half under President Trump as the IG report confirmed,” the agency noted.

The Washington Post also reported that one benefits authorizer in a processing center was told by management during an all-staff meeting that there was a backlog of six million cases. The outlet added that management added that the staff would be expected to work overtime to lower the number to two million.

We recently published the following audit report: Social Security Administration’s Telephone Metrics. You can read more here https://t.co/Uy9e7iOv45 pic.twitter.com/zMDwjJogmw

— Social Security OIG (@TheSSAOIG) December 22, 2025

The SSA pointed out to the Post prior to publication, according to emails reviewed by the Caller, that the agency explained in a letter to Congress that there were 6.2 million pending cases at the beginning of June. By the end of the fiscal year, the SSA reduced that number by more than one million, the letter writes.

“Today, there are 850,000 less pending actions in the processing centers compared to the same time last year, which contrary to the article, shows improvement,” the SSA shared with the Caller.

The SSA also took issue with the Post’s framing of Bisignano’s plan to close half of the agency’s field offices. The outlet reported that more than 31 million people visited field offices in the last fiscal year.

“It is disappointing yet unsurprising that the fake news media is eager to ignore the truth to scare seniors. The truth is simple: field offices are, and will always remain, our front-line, serving the approximately 75 million Americans who receive monthly payments and more than 330 million Americans with Social Security numbers,” the agency told the Caller. The SSA added that Commissioner Bisignano has “pledged to have the right level of staffing to operate at peak efficiency and deliver best-in-class customer service to the American people.”

The Washington Post also reported that in previous weeks there have been hundreds of employees who were transferred to customer service operations and have now been recalled to the roles they were hired to fill in the beginning. The outlet added that others have been placed in a new “digital engagement” office.

The SSA told the Caller that after they introduced new technology this year, they “recognized streamlined workloads in field offices that allowed us to deploy approximately 850 field office employees daily to assist with calls to the National 800 Number.” The agency told the Caller that none of these field office staff have been reassigned to the National 800 Number. Selected staff are now  Customer Service Representatives (CSR), “and the assistance they are providing is consistent with their position descriptions,” the agency shared.

The Washington Post did not respond to a request for comment.

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Reagan Reese

White House Correspondent

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Lessons to Learn From the Welfare Mega-Fraud Scandal in Minnesota

By The Daily Signal

I recall a saying from my youth that went, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

This comes to mind reading reports of the mind-boggling welfare fraud megascandal that has been exposed in Minnesota.

For perspective on the scope of the scandal, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson estimates fraud losses in Minnesota since 2018 could top $9 billion.

We’re talking about fraud in Medicaid, nutrition programs, government-funded housing programs, government programs to assist autistic children, etc.

Beyond tracking down and indicting criminals, there are critically important lessons to be learned here for our country, and we must learn them.

What do we learn about the connection between fraud and big government? What do we learn about fraud, big government and the Democratic Party? What lessons do we learn regarding our immigration policy?

Fraud and big government go hand in hand.

A Government Accountability Office report in July notes over $300 billion of fraudulent payments in 19 pandemic-relief programs.

Last May, CBS’ “60 Minutes” reported on vast fraud in federal spending programs. Per estimates of a woman who spent “a decade” at GAO, “I believe the government is losing between $550 billion and about $750 billion a year” in fraud.

What’s the connection to the Democratic Party? Simple. Democrats are the party of big government. Every proposal coming out of the Democratic Party involves more government. More government programs, which means more fraud.

And, of course, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, at the helm of his state while all this was happening, was the Democrat nominee in 2024 to be our vice president. He was introduced by Kamala Harris as her running mate, saying he’s “the kind of vice president that America needs.”

The Cato Institute issues a biannual Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors, grading all 50 governors on tax and spending policies. In the last report in 2024, number 50 out of 50 governors was Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, scoring 19 points out of a possible 100.

What is the lesson regarding immigration?

The Somali community in Minnesota disproportionately participated in this widespread fraud.

Interviewing Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, CBS’ “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan noted that in COVID-19 fraud exceeding a billion dollars, “of 87 charged all but eight are of Somali descent.”

Omar herself is Somali and a member of the far-left “squad” in Congress.

Noting the disproportionate Somali presence in the scandal, President Donald Trump wrote on social media, “Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER.”

Those calling Trump a racist miss the point.

Consider the Corruption Perception Index published annually by Transparency International, an organization working to eliminate corruption around the globe.

Out of 180 countries measured in the Transparency International Index, Somalia is the second most corrupt country in the world.

Worth noting is the strong inverse relation of corruption with economic freedom. The most economically free countries—smaller government, less intrusive regulation, strong consistent rule of law—are also the least corrupt.

In the annual Fraser Institute Economic Freedom of the World Report, out of 165 countries measured and ranked in economic freedom, Somalia ranks 101.

The point is that the Somalis so prominent in the massive fraud in Minnesota come from a country with values and reality the total antithesis of what our country is about. It is a country with little economic freedom and widespread corruption.

If Somalis chose to come here to be free and responsible citizens, good for them and good for us. But it appears many have brought the destructive values of their home country with them. They should be screened.

Rep. Omar has been a perverse megaphone for anti-American sentiment since she arrived in Congress.

So, cut fraud by cutting back the scope of government, and shut our borders to those who do not aspire to our values of personal responsibility and freedom.

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Star Parker

Star Parker, a columnist for The Daily Signal, is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. Star on X: @StarParker.

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Mamdani Takes Over New York, Property Owners Take Cover

By The Daily Signal

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to move into public housing, New York City’s Gracie Mansion Thursday, when he assumes power on New Year’s Day. This is good for him and his wife, Rama Duwaji, as he is about to make owning private property in the Big Apple a riskier proposition.

Mamdani’s flagship housing policy has been to completely freeze rents on all rent-stabilized housing, which already limits how much landlords can raise rents.

Other aspects of his designs on private property have been taking shape for some time. While it looks like he may not have his commissars expropriate landlords by force, he will use regulation to achieve the same outcome.

Three weeks after being elected, Mamdani appointed Cea Weaver to his housing transition committee. An organizer, Weaver works for Housing Justice for All, a left-leaning organization also known as the Upstate-Downstate Housing Alliance. She also heads the New York State Tenant Bloc.

“Tenants are half the state and a majority in every major city. United, we have the power to reclaim our homes from the stranglehold of the real estate industry,” she said when she founded the bloc earlier this year.

Two months ago, Weaver wrote an essay calling for “policy interventions” to solve “New York’s housing crisis,” which she characterized as “sky-high rents, extraordinary waitlists for affordable housing, and low-quality housing stock.”

Weaver made a good point when she wrote that the city’s housing policies “are defined by acute competition” between two Goliaths. One is “a robust tenant movement that has secured the strongest rent stabilization laws and public-housing tools in the United States,” and the other is “the country’s most powerful real estate lobby, accustomed to shaping our city in its image.”

New York City is indeed known by the most famed skyline in the world, and by its strong-willed real estate developers (one of whom sits in the White House), but also for an aggressive, Marxist tenant movement, which has pushed for rent-control laws that have ironically given Gotham rents that are as high as the city’s skyscrapers.

How do you resolve this tension? Weaver wants to do it by putting regulations and taxes on steroids; then, when landlords cry “no mas” and are “no longer interested in ownership,” the city will step in, buy out their properties, and presto, Gotham becomes the city’s biggest landlord. What’s not to like?

This is how it works: Weaver recognized that the rent freeze could have adverse consequences. She’s not dumb.

“It is true that a rent freeze, without additional intervention, risks deepening the crises within the market,” she wrote in her essay. “Owners of rent-stabilized buildings may choose not to invest in their properties.” That would make an already deteriorating housing stock worse, and Mayor Mamdani would get the blame.

Effective code-enforcement programs would help, and make Mamdani appear to care, especially with the help of a sympathetic media.

“But investment in enforcement is not in itself enough,” Weaver wrote. The city, as the New York Post aptly put it in an editorial, can then pass “laws that cause real-estate values to collapse.”

In Weaver’s world, the city’s “lack of a profit motive” is actually an advantage, not a hindrance to making decisions that make economic sense. Mamdani could then combine that ability to ignore profit and loss with the city’s awesome “taxing power,” and have the Big Apple “intervene” and “acquire rent stabilized housing as a market actor.”

“With its multibillion-dollar capital budget, the city has the capacity to act as a non-speculative market actor: purchasing buildings where the landlord is no longer interested in ownership,” she wrote.

But first, you must pass laws that crush people who own property, precipitate a housing crisis, have prices plunge, and then force these property owners to sell to Big Brother.

“We need to combine the power to enforce housing standards and the power to finance and acquire rental housing—two capacities the city already has,” Weaver wrote.

Of course, none of this will touch the truly rich. Just as Trump decamped to Florida and resides in the District of Columbia, the rich can (and will) abandon New York City. Even if they stay, the city will never buy the buildings where they live.

No, it will be middle-class property owners who will be squeezed until they can no longer make ends meet, and have to sell to the city at bottom prices.

Add to this that part of Mamdani’s housing plan is already to have the city construct 200,000 new, “publicly-subsidized, affordable, union-built, rent-stabilized homes” over the next 10 years.

How will he pay for it? Tax and spend, of course.

“Zohran will allocate $70 billion new capital dollars in the city’s Ten-Year Capital Plan to create new affordable housing, raised on the municipal bond market. This is on top of the about $30 billion the city is already planning to spend,” says the plan. Crush owners with regulation and citizens with taxes.

The history of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, Cuba, etc., tells you that governments make for really bad owners, precisely because they lack the profit motive. Block after block of ugly, decaying buildings was always the legacy of communism.

This means that we might all want to visit Gotham soon if we want to catch one last glimpse of its great skyline. Mamdani becomes Thursday.

Originally published by the Washington Examiner

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Mike Gonzalez

Mike is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow in the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research. Mike on X: @Gundisalvus.

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DOJ Announces 98 Total Arrests in Minnesota Fraud Case — 85 of ‘Somali Descent’

By Royal A. Brown III

Good start but the FBI should put together a massiive Task Force to investigate Minnesota Fraud and put them on ground in Minneapolis until all culprits are charged including Gov “Tampon Tim”/”Stolen Valor” Walz and Muslim wife beating AG Keith Ellison.

Breaking: DOJ Announces 98 Total Arrests in Minnesota Fraud Case — 85 of ‘Somali Descent’

By C. Douglas Golden

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the Department of Justice has already arrested and charged 98 individuals with fraud in Minnesota, 85 of whom are of Somali descent.

What’s more, the attorney general said, there are further prosecutions coming.

The announcement came after a series of videos from YouTuber Nick Shirley that indicated fraud in the Somali community went beyond just the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, in which a Minneapolis-based nonprofit allegedly misappropriated massive sums of money meant to feed at-risk families.

Shirley’s video, released late last week, has gotten the federal government’s attention.

“[Nick Shirley’s] work has helped show Americans the scale of fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota,” Bondi said in an X statement late Monday.

Continue reading.

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From Obscurity to Tens of Billions — Now Leadership Is Scrubbed at Ilhan Omar’s Husband’s VC Firm as Scrutiny Mounts

By The Geller Report

Ilhan Omar and her husband (not the brother husband) Time Mynett have seen their fortune skyrocket since taking office.

Mynett husband runs one of the largest VC Firms which went from $0 to $60 billion in assets in about a year.

Omar’s husband is reported to be associated with a venture capital firm that surged from little-known status to tens of billions of dollars in assets in a remarkably short period. As scrutiny intensifies over widespread fraud allegations in Minnesota, the firm has removed multiple officers and advisers from its website, according to reporting — a move critics say raises red flags. Omar earns $174,000 annually as a member of Congress, yet her publicly reported net worth shifted from –$32,000 in 2019 to $30 million by 2024. The timing of the firm’s sudden digital cleanup, combined with these financial disclosures, is now fueling questions about transparency, influence, and accountability.

Somalia-born Omar — who was seen in a resurfaced video last month dishing out food in a restaurant now at the heart of the scandal — who introduced the legislation that critics say paved the way for what the feds have called the largest fraud of the pandemic.

Less we forget how many members of Congress demanded Trump’s tax return and then illegally released his tax returns while he was a private citizen.

Rose Lake Capital, which touts its “deep global networks built from on-the-ground work in more than 80 countries,” had less than $1,000 in assets in 2023, according to Omar’s financial disclosure.

Democrats continue to escape accountability while working Americans are forced to surrender nearly half their income to fund corruption, fraud, and political machines that never face consequences. This isn’t governance — it’s abuse of power. The question isn’t whether citizens should obey the law, but how long they’ll tolerate a system that protects criminals and punishes taxpayers.

$1.26M Child Care Fraud Center’s Phone Leads Directly to Tim Walz’s Office

By The Geller Report

Records show the center received $1.26 million in CCAP funds, while calls to its listed phone number route directly to the office of Tim Walz — prompting serious questions about oversight, access, and accountability.

Tim Walz is facing escalating scrutiny after the viral video by independent journalist Nick Shirley exposed apparent fraud at Minnesota child care and aid facilities allegedly tied to Somali-run operations. Shirley documented multiple sites that appeared shuttered or non-operational despite records showing millions in public funding, including one facility funded for nearly 100 children that reportedly received about $4 million.

Walz’s office insists the governor has worked to combat fraud, citing audits, investigations, program closures, and prosecutions. But critics point to a far more damning claim: more than 400 Minnesota Department of Human Services employees have accused Walz of ignoring repeated warnings about widespread fraud and retaliating against whistleblowers who tried to expose it.

The revelations have intensified questions about how such alleged abuse persisted for years — and why it took an independent journalist, not regulators, to bring it to light.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz desperately defends himself from Somali fraud allegations uncovered in damning viral video

By Caitlin McCormack, NY Post, Dec. 29, 2025

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pushed back against the ever-growing fraud allegations levied against him in the disastrous aftermath of a viral video in which an independent journalist cracked open a crucial part of the alleged Somali aid scheme.

A spokesperson for Walz, a Democrat who frequently provokes President Trump’s ire, addressed a bombshell video posted by conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley.

“The governor has worked for years to crack down on fraud and ask the state legislature for more authority to take aggressive action. He has strengthened oversight — including launching investigations into these specific facilities, one of which was already closed,” the spokesperson told Fox News.

The spokesperson added that Walz has “hired an outside firm to audit payments to high-risk programs, shut down the Housing Stabilization Services program entirely, announced a new statewide program integrity director, and supported criminal prosecutions.”

In the 43-minute video published on Friday, Shirley and a Minnesotan named David travel around Minneapolis and visit multiple child care and learning sites allegedly owned by Somali immigrants.

Many were either shuttered entirely, despite signage indicating they were open, or helmed by staff who refused to participate in the video.
One of the buildings they visited displayed a misspelled sign reading “Quality Learing Center.” The “learning” center is supposed to account for at least 99 children and funneled roughly $4 million in state funds, according to the video.

Shirley appeared on Fox News’ “The Big Weekend Show” Sunday evening and boasted about his findings. He joked that the alleged scheme was “so obvious” that a “kindergartner could figure out there is fraud going on.”

“Fraud is fraud, and we work too hard simply just to be paying taxes and enabling fraud to be happening,” Shirley said.

Continue reading.

Staggering!

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Pamela Geller

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Minnesota Fraud Controversy Shakes Capitol Hill

By The Daily Signal

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, one of Washington’s top-ranking Republicans, says he is open to legal action against Minnesota’s Democrat leaders following the viral release of a video alleging fraud in state-funded day care centers.

Appearing on Fox News’ “Fox Report Weekend” on Sunday, Emmer praised YouTube content creator Nick Shirley’s recent report, which alleges that several state-funded day care and learning centers, largely operated by immigrants from Somalia, do not provide legitimate services.

“It’s amazing to me that a 23-year-old journalist, a YouTuber who’s now got over 80 million views on this thing, found more in a matter of hours than Tim Walz and Keith Ellison, our attorney general, found in seven years,” Emmer, R-Minn., said on Fox.

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“Whistleblowers are coming forward,” said Emmer, who added that he would support the prosecution of Walz and Ellison if there was documented evidence of their retaliation against whistleblowers.

“What they’re saying is they told Tim Walz, they told Keith Ellison about the fraud when it was happening. And they not only didn’t do anything, they retaliated against them,” Emmer said.

“If that’s true, if that can be documented, these guys need to be prosecuted—held accountable and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who chairs the House Oversight Committee, has already announced he intends to subpoena Minnesota state officials and whistleblowers in a wider probe of the day care fraud issue.

A spokesperson for Walz has called the oversight probe “a coordinated political attack to try to silence one of the President’s most effective critics” in a statement appearing in The Minnesota Star Tribune.

A Walz spokesperson also defended his conduct in a statement to The Daily Signal, saying, “The Governor has worked for years to crack down on fraud and asked the state legislature for more authority to take aggressive action.”

The spokesperson added, “He has strengthened oversight – including launching investigations into these specific facilities, one of which was already closed. He has hired an outside firm to audit payments to high-risk programs, shut down the Housing Stabilization Services program entirely, announced a new statewide program integrity director, and supported criminal prosecutions.”

FBI Director Kash Patel on Sunday revealed the bureau had expanded its investigation of alleged fraud schemes involving federal programs in the state.

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George Caldwell

George Caldwell is a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal. Send an email to George. George on X: @GCaldwell_news.

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Minnesota Is Just the Tip of The Iceberg: NY’s Medicaid Home-Care System Is Rife With Fraud, Statistical Impossibility

By The Geller Report

If Minnesota’s fraud scandal shocks you, wait until investigators turn their attention to New York City’s Medicaid-funded home healthcare racket. Home health aides have become the largest single occupation in New York, accounting for roughly 40 percent of all job growth — an explosion driven almost entirely by Medicaid dollars. The state now claims 171 aides for every 1,000 residents aged 65 and over, the highest rate in the nation and 153 percent above the national average. That level of “need” defies basic demographics. The system relies heavily on self-reported caregiving, often by family members, with weak real-time verification and minimal auditing. When a program grows this large, this fast, with this little oversight, fraud isn’t an anomaly — it’s baked in. This isn’t about caring for the vulnerable. It’s about a Medicaid pipeline so bloated and credulous that taxpayers are funding a workforce whose scale simply cannot be real.

Empire Center for Public Policy: Home health and personal care aides are now the single largest job category in New York State, and their growth has been extraordinary. The Empire Center, using BLS data, reports NY had roughly 623,000 aides as of May 2024 and that the category represented about 38% of all job growth in the state.

For the whole of the twentieth century, New York City’s wealth was driven by myriad sectors – manufacturing, with the garment trade being a dominant force finance, publishing, technology and shipping through its major port. The unions drove manufacturing out. It’s non-existent. And successive Democrat governments, through burdensome regulation and high taxes, drove out almost everyone else. Today the two largest employers in NYC is the government and Wall Street (financial sector).

The big dirty secret is NYC is kept afloat with taxpayer funded fraud.

The New York City home-healthcare scheme illustrates how Medicaid’s design failures invite industrial-scale abuse. At the center are third-party administrators — including Public Partnerships LLC (PPL) and Leading Edge Administrators — contracted to manage payroll and “benefits” for personal care aides. On paper, these arrangements promise efficiency. In practice, they create opaque money flows with minimal oversight.

One example is the much-touted Flex Card model. Funds are deducted from workers’ paychecks and earmarked for restricted benefits that are difficult to use, poorly explained, and time-limited. The predictable result: large balances go unspent — reportedly approaching 30% — allowing administrators to retain or recycle funds while workers never receive the compensation they were promised. This isn’t a glitch; it’s a feature of predatory design, where friction equals profit.

The scale of opportunity is enormous. New York’s home-care workforce is dramatically oversized relative to need, with roughly 171 aides per 1,000 seniors — about 153% above the national average. Such an imbalance is a classic red flag for eligibility inflation, phantom services, and inflated billing. When supply vastly outstrips plausible demand, fraud doesn’t just slip through — it flourishes.

All of this unfolds against a national backdrop of chronic Medicaid leakage. Federal audits have repeatedly found tens of billions of dollars in improper payments annually, yet Washington’s response has been to outsource more functions rather than enforce rigorous eligibility checks, utilization reviews, and clawbacks. Contractors are paid to move money, not to question whether it should be moving at all.

The incentives are upside-down. Low-wage aides shoulder administrative complexity and lose access to earned compensation. Taxpayers absorb the cost. Contractors collect fees insulated from outcomes. And state agencies point to compliance paperwork while avoiding the harder work of field audits, beneficiary verification, and real enforcement.

This isn’t about care delivery. It’s about a rent-seeking ecosystem where complexity substitutes for accountability. Until eligibility is tightened, benefit designs are simplified and audited, and administrators are paid based on value delivered — not dollars processed — the same result is guaranteed: workers shortchanged, taxpayers fleeced, and fraud normalized as “program management.”

Also…..California is the fraud capitol of the U.S.

Maine.

Idaho.

Utah.

Washington State.

Here, there, and everywhere.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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