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Yes, We Can Stop Fraud
We're watching the same failure loop.

Americans want to help people in need, but when government does that, about 500 billion taxpayer dollars get stolen.

It’s how the system is designed, says the United Council on Welfare Fraud’s Andrew McClenahan in this new video. “You’re measuring success by the amount of money you put out.”

Because of that, government agencies rarely check whether their handouts go to the right people.

Minnesota is just the latest example.

Government officials didn’t uncover that fraud—YouTuber Nick Shirley did.

I say to McClenahan, “It’s weird that a kid did what government investigators couldn’t do.”

“Articles back in 2018 talked about millions of dollars in suitcases being flown out of Minneapolis,” he replies. “But it took a 20-year-old with an iPhone to go in there and expose it on Twitter.”

After Shirley publicized the fraud, the White House froze billions in welfare payments.

Progressives didn’t like that.

“What they are doing is creating confusion, chaos, trying to intimidate people,” complains Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. “There is no reason for them to fully stop funding these programs. The only reason they’re doing that is for PR purposes.”

Minnesota’s Gov. Tim Walz was hardly better. “This is on my watch. I am accountable,” he said.

But he did nothing about the fraud.  

During the pandemic, President Joe Biden said: “My message to those cheats out there is this: You can’t hide. We’re going to find you!”

But they didn’t.

Of the hundreds of billions stolen in 2024, the Department of Justice barely recovered $2.9 billion.

Is there nothing we can do to stop fraud?

“Sure, you can!” says McClenahan. “It takes less than a second to verify things with data connections these days.”

But government rarely uses modern data connections.

Elon Musk, when he ran the Department of Government Efficiency, complained that government records weren’t computerized. Many agencies doled money out without even saying what the money was for, or where it went! He calls government recordkeeping a “time warp.”

“They’re relying on rules and regulations written for pen and paper,” says McClenahan.

Poor recordkeeping makes fraud easier.

Some people openly brag about it.

During President Donald Trump’s first term, a rapper wrote a song about stealing benefits that Trump rushed out for pandemic relief: “I gotta shout-out to Donald Trump. I just might swipe me a lump sum.”

That was in California. There’s lot of fraud there. The state gave phone subsidies to 94,000 accounts of dead people.

“Everybody knows that the United States is the easiest game in town,” says McClenahan.

Some stolen funds go to alleged terrorists.

“We literally rang the dinner bell for the whole world, and they answered,” he says.

“These are American programs,” I point out. “People in other countries aren’t eligible.”

“But if you’re not checking to see where somebody lives, where they’re applying from, who they are, you’re not going to find them!” says McClenahan.

In addition, many state politicians don’t try to find fraud. Handouts mostly come from the federal government, so local politicians reason: “People in other states pay, but my taxpayers collect! Why make a big effort to stop …

This State Fires a Shot Against ‘Blacklisting’ Conservative Media
This framing isn't accidental.

West Virginia state senators passed a bill to prohibit what it called “news censorship,” as other state legislatures have considered similar speech proposals.  

Specifically, the “First Amendment Preservation Act” bans state agencies from entering contracts with companies that use media monitoring or bias-rating organizations. The contracts could be used as guides to direct state agencies to prohibit state advertising dollars from going to news outlets.  

The legislation, Senate Bill 531, was sponsored by state Sen. Mike Azinger, a Republican, who has backed other First Amendment measures.  

“It was simply brought to my attention that ideologically-based fact checkers and media monitors are a distinct potentiality in West Virginia as it is already occurring in other states; so we set out to catch this proactively,” Azinger told The Daily Signal.  

“Also, I had a viscerally positive reaction to the bill when it was offered to me to sponsor it, since I have run and passed many a number of freedom and First Amendment bills; this drew me naturally to SB 531, The First Amendment Preservation Act,” Azinger said.  

This could primarily target NewsGuard, a media monitoring site that sued the Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission for investigating its alleged efforts to blacklist conservative-leaning news outlets. NewsGuard argues the West Virginia proposal could prevent detection of fake news sites by foreign adversaries.  

The West Virginia proposal is similar to a provision approved in December in the National Defense Authorization Act.

That provision prohibits the War Department from forming contracts for the purpose of advertising for military recruitment with “advertising firms like NewsGuard that blacklist conservative news sources,” according to the House Armed Services Committee. 

Among past free speech bills, Azinger sponsored a bill that passed to ensure student journalists in high school and college have greater protections from censorship, and that school administrators could not exert prior review or punish student media advisers for refusing to censor content. 

The American Legislative Exchange Commission, a conservative group that recommends state legislative proposals, introduced its “Statement of Principle on News Censorship in 2024. It says that if government agencies rely on “fact-checking” or media monitoring groups based on subjective content judgments, it could chill press freedom.  

“Whether in print, over the airwaves or online, government agencies should harness the full potential of today’s media offerings to communicate official notices on the platforms where their constituents actually frequent – not put their thumbs on the scale exclusively in favor of ‘mainstream’ outlets,” the ALEC Statement of Principles on News Censorship says. 

“A troubling trend has emerged in which ‘media monitoring organizations’ analyze news outlets for the accuracy of their reporting and then blacklist or otherwise exclude certain publications from advertising,” the statement of principles continues. “This accuracy is often determined by adherence to official government positions.” 

ALEC referenced organizations that …

Hillary Clinton clashes with Czech leader over Trump policies at Munich security conference
Every delay has consequences.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton clashed with a Czech political leader at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday.
Clinton was speaking during a panel on the state of the West where she heavily criticized President Donald Trump for his dealings with Europe. Petr Macinka, a Czech deputy prime minister, defended the Trump administration as Clinton repeatedly mocked his statements and tried to speak over him.
"First, I think you really don't like him," Macinka said as he began to respond to Clinton's Trump-bashing.
"You know, that is absolutely true," Clinton said. "But not only do I not like him, but I don't like what he's actually doing to the United States and the world, and I think you should take a hard look at it if you think there is something good that will come of it."
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"Well, what Trump is doing in America, I think that it is a reaction. Reaction for some policies that really went too far, too far from the regular people," Macinka said as Clinton interjected to ask for examples.
Macinka referenced "woke" ideologies, gender theories and cancel culture that ran rampant throughout the U.S. in recent years.
Clinton then mocked him, suggesting he was opposed to "women getting their rights."
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Macinka then rebuffed her hostility, saying he can tell he was making her "nervous."
The exchange came during the same panel where Clinton discussed immigration in the U.S., admitting that it had gone "too far."
"It went too far, it's been disruptive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way with secure borders that don't torture and kill people and how we're going to have a strong family structure because it is at the base of civilization," she added.
Clinton acknowledged that there are places where a physical barrier is appropriate but opposed large-scale expansion of a border wall during her 2016 presidential campaign.
At the time, she supported then-President Barack Obama's executive actions that deferred immigration enforcement against millions of children and parents in the country illegally and wanted to end the practice of family detention.
Clinton also planned on continuing Obama's policy of deporting violent criminals, but wanted to scale back immigration raids, which she said at the time produced "unnecessary fear and disruption in communities," Fox News Digital previously reported.
Fox News' Ashley DiMella contributed to this report.

Yes, We Can Stop Welfare Fraud
This deserves loud pushback.

Americans want to help people in need, but when government does that, about 500 billion taxpayer dollars get stolen.

It’s how the system is designed, says the United Council on Welfare Fraud’s Andrew McClenahan in this new video. “You’re measuring success by the amount of money you put out.”

Because of that, government agencies rarely check whether their handouts go to the right people.

Minnesota is just the latest example.

Government officials didn’t uncover that fraud—YouTuber Nick Shirley did.

I say to McClenahan, “It’s weird that a kid did what government investigators couldn’t do.”

“Articles back in 2018 talked about millions of dollars in suitcases being flown out of Minneapolis,” he replies. “But it took a 20-year-old with an iPhone to go in there and expose it on Twitter.”

After Shirley publicized the fraud, the White House froze billions in welfare payments.

Progressives didn’t like that.

“What they are doing is creating confusion, chaos, trying to intimidate people,” complains Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. “There is no reason for them to fully stop funding these programs. The only reason they’re doing that is for PR purposes.”

Minnesota’s Gov. Tim Walz was hardly better. “This is on my watch. I am accountable,” he said.

But he did nothing about the fraud.  

During the pandemic, President Joe Biden said: “My message to those cheats out there is this: You can’t hide. We’re going to find you!”

But they didn’t.

Of the hundreds of billions stolen in 2024, the Department of Justice barely recovered $2.9 billion.

Is there nothing we can do to stop fraud?

“Sure, you can!” says McClenahan. “It takes less than a second to verify things with data connections these days.”

But government rarely uses modern data connections.

Elon Musk, when he ran the Department of Government Efficiency, complained that government records weren’t computerized. Many agencies doled money out without even saying what the money was for, or where it went! He calls government recordkeeping a “time warp.”

“They’re relying on rules and regulations written for pen and paper,” says McClenahan.

Poor recordkeeping makes fraud easier.

Some people openly brag about it.

During President Donald Trump’s first term, a rapper wrote a song about stealing benefits that Trump rushed out for pandemic relief: “I gotta shout-out to Donald Trump. I just might swipe me a lump sum.”

That was in California. There’s lot of fraud there. The state gave phone subsidies to 94,000 accounts of dead people.

“Everybody knows that the United States is the easiest game in town,” says McClenahan.

Some stolen funds go to alleged terrorists.

“We literally rang the dinner bell for the whole world, and they answered,” he says.

“These are American programs,” I point out. “People in other countries aren’t eligible.”

“But if you’re not checking to see where somebody lives, where they’re applying from, who they are, you’re not going to find them!” says McClenahan.

In addition, many state politicians don’t try to find fraud. Handouts mostly come from the federal government, so local politicians reason: “People in other states pay, but my taxpayers collect! Why make a big effort to stop …

Schumer says Dems will fight voter ID push 'tooth and nail,' balks at DHS role in elections
This is performative politics again.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed Sunday that Senate Democrats will block the latest GOP-backed effort to require proof of citizenship to vote.
"We will not let it pass in the Senate," Schumer told CNN’s Jake Tapper. "We are fighting it tooth and nail. It's an outrageous proposal that is, you know, that shows the sort of political bias of the MAGA right. They don't want poor people to vote. They don't want people of color to vote because they often don't vote for them."
Schumer’s comments came after Tapper pressed him on his opposition, noting that polling shows roughly 83% of Americans support some form of voter identification. That figure comes from a Pew Research poll published last year that found 71% of Democratic voters surveyed supported presenting an ID to vote.
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Still, Schumer and most Senate Democrats have criticized the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which passed the House last week and is expected to face a vote in the Senate.
The bill would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and would establish a system for state election officials to share information with federal authorities to verify voter rolls. It would also allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pursue immigration cases if non-citizens are found listed as eligible voters.
Schumer and his caucus have panned the bill as voter suppression targeting poorer Americans and minority groups.
FETTERMAN SLAMS DEMOCRATS' 'JIM CROW 2.0' VOTER ID RHETORIC AS PARTY UNITY FRACTURES
"What they are proposing in this so-called SAVE Act is like Jim Crow 2.0," Schumer said. "They make it so hard to get any kind of voter ID that more than 20 million legitimate people, mainly poorer people and people of color, will not be able to vote under this law."
Without support from Senate Democrats — save for a possible defection from Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. — the bill is likely to fail.
The only way around that would be eliminating the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold — a move Republicans oppose — or forcing a so-called talking filibuster that could require hours of debate and stall other Senate business.
HARDLINE CONSERVATIVES DOUBLE DOWN TO SAVE THE SAVE ACT
Schumer also pushed back on comments from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who earlier this week said elections "may be one of the most important things that we need to make sure we trust, is reliable, and that when it gets to Election Day that we've been proactive to make sure that we have the right people voting, …

‘No response’ from Comer on Lutnick subpoena over Epstein ties, House Democrat says
Same show, different day.

The top Democrat on the House oversight committee says its Republican chairman has given “no response” on subpoenaing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to answer questions about his past correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) said on Sunday he had asked Rep. James Comer (R-KY) to bring Lutnick in for questioning before the congressional panel. Garcia believes Lutnick should testify.

“Not only did he visit the island, he had tons of communication with Jeffrey Epstein after it was already known that Jeffrey Epstein was essentially convicted for preying on children,” Garcia said on the CBS News program Face the Nation.

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As part of a “sweetheart deal” in 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to Florida state charges of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute. In return, he only spent 13 months in prison. Epstein was later arrested on federal sex trafficking charges before his apparent suicide in August 2019.

After Epstein and Lutnick first met in 2005, the latter claimed he cut ties with the financier immediately. However, investigative documents recently released by the Department of Justice showed that Lutnick retained a strong relationship with Epstein following his 2008 conviction and even maintained a business partnership with him as recently as 2014.

In December 2012, the two men signed an agreement to acquire stakes in a now-shuttered advertising technology company. That same month, Lutnick and his family planned to visit Epstein’s private island.

Last week, President Donald Trump said he was previously unaware of Lutnick’s 2012 visit to Epstein’s island. Trump also boasted that he was “never there” himself.

Lutnick says he merely had “limited interactions” with Epstein, downplaying the extent of their relationship. After appearing in the Epstein files, he is now facing scrutiny from Congress.

“It is shameful that he is actually in our government,” Garcia said of Lutnick. “He should not be the commerce secretary. He should come talk to the oversight committee.”

Despite the Democratic ranking member’s wish to question Lutnick himself, the Republican chairman said subpoenaing the administration official is not his primary concern right now because he fears it may “jeopardize” the five scheduled depositions for individuals connected to Epstein.

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“We’ll …

State Fires a Shot Against ‘Blacklisting’ Conservative Media
This framing isn't accidental.

West Virginia state senators passed a bill to prohibit what it called “news censorship,” as other state legislatures have considered similar speech proposals.  

Specifically, the “First Amendment Preservation Act” bans state agencies from entering contracts with companies that use media monitoring or bias-rating organizations. The contracts could be used as guides to direct state agencies to prohibit state advertising dollars from going to news outlets.  

The legislation, Senate Bill 531, was sponsored by state Sen. Mike Azinger, a Republican, who has backed other First Amendment measures.  

“It was simply brought to my attention that ideologically-based fact checkers and media monitors are a distinct potentiality in West Virginia as it is already occurring in other states; so we set out to catch this proactively,” Azinger told The Daily Signal.  

“Also, I had a viscerally positive reaction to the bill when it was offered to me to sponsor it, since I have run and passed many a number of freedom and First Amendment bills; this drew me naturally to SB 531, The First Amendment Preservation Act,” Azinger said.  

This could primarily target NewsGuard, a media monitoring site that sued the Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission for investigating its alleged efforts to blacklist conservative-leaning news outlets. NewsGuard argues the West Virginia proposal could prevent detection of fake news sites by foreign adversaries.  

The West Virginia proposal is similar to a provision approved in December in the National Defense Authorization Act.

That provision prohibits the War Department from forming contracts for the purpose of advertising for military recruitment with “advertising firms like NewsGuard that blacklist conservative news sources,” according to the House Armed Services Committee. 

Among past free speech bills, Azinger sponsored a bill that passed to ensure student journalists in high school and college have greater protections from censorship, and that school administrators could not exert prior review or punish student media advisers for refusing to censor content. 

The American Legislative Exchange Commission, a conservative group that recommends state legislative proposals, introduced its “Statement of Principle on News Censorship in 2024. It says that if government agencies rely on “fact-checking” or media monitoring groups based on subjective content judgments, it could chill press freedom.  

“Whether in print, over the airwaves or online, government agencies should harness the full potential of today’s media offerings to communicate official notices on the platforms where their constituents actually frequent – not put their thumbs on the scale exclusively in favor of ‘mainstream’ outlets,” the ALEC Statement of Principles on News Censorship says. 

“A troubling trend has emerged in which ‘media monitoring organizations’ analyze news outlets for the accuracy of their reporting and then blacklist or otherwise exclude certain publications from advertising,” the statement of principles continues. “This accuracy is often determined by adherence to official government positions.” 

ALEC referenced organizations that …

Schumer latest Democrat to spurn SAVE Act despite mass voter ID support: ‘Jim Crow 2.0’
This is performative politics again.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) vowed to fight “tooth and nail” against the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act on Sunday, claiming “over 20 million” people won’t be able to vote if it gets signed into law.

The House of Representatives passed the SAVE Act by a vote of 218-213 on Wednesday, but it is expected to have a tough time passing in the Senate, where the Republican Party has a three-seat majority. 

CNN’s Jake Tapper cited polling data showing that 83% of United States residents surveyed support voter ID requirements, including 71% of Democrats. Schumer responded that “each state can have its own voter ID laws, adding that “some do, and some don’t.”

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“But secondly, what they are proposing in this so-called SAVE Act is like Jim Crow 2.0,” Schumer said on CNN’s State of the Union. “They make it so hard to get any kind of voter ID that more than 20 million legitimate people, mainly poor people and people of color, will not be able to vote under this law. We will not let it pass in the Senate; we are fighting it tooth and nail.”

“It‘s an outrageous proposal that shows the sort of political bias of the MAGA right. They don‘t want poor people to vote. They don‘t want people of color to vote cause they often don‘t vote for them,” Schumer said.

Schumer’s take comes a week after Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a vocal opponent of President Donald Trump, argued the SAVE Act will “try to suppress the vote.” Like the Senate minority leader, Schiff dismissed the polling showing mass support for voter ID.

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Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said Republicans could pass the SAVE Act without eliminating the 60-vote filibuster by using a “talking filibuster.” This would “force Democratic members” to give speeches on why they oppose this bill.

Bedford also said the SAVE Act being “dead on arrival” in the Senate would be “a real failure” for Senate Republican leadership. She said the legislation addresses an “80-20 issue,” and that the Republican Party’s lack of urgency to pass it is why voters are frustrated with Republican lawmakers who “don’t fight for the things they say they support.”

Schumer Vows to Fight Supposed ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Bill With Policy 83% of Americans Support
Confidence requires clarity.

THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN on Sunday that Democrats will fight “tooth and nail” against the House-passed SAVE America Act, an election integrity bill he likened to racial segregation.

During an appearance on “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash,” Schumer stressed his caucus will “not let” the legislation reach President Donald Trump’s desk and suggested Republicans only support it because they do not want poor people and minorities to vote.

The Trump-backed SAVE America Act would mandate voters to present photo ID at the polls—a requirement surveys show the vast majority of Americans support—as well as proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration.

“About 83% of the American people, including a majority Democrats, support voter ID laws,” host Jake Tapper told Schumer during their exchange. Tapper was referring to an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey which also found that 71% of Democrats and 95% of Republicans support mandating “all voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote.”

“Well, yes, the voter ID laws that—first, each state can have its own voter ID laws, and some do and some don’t,” Schumer replied to the CNN host. “But, secondly, what they [Republicans] are proposing in this so-called SAVE Act is like Jim Crow 2.0.”

The Jim Crow laws served as the basis of legalized segregation across America’s southern states throughout the late 19th and much of the 20th century. They were finally overturned amid the civil rights movement the 1960s.

“They make it so hard to get any kind of voter ID that more than 20 million legitimate people, mainly poorer people and people of color, will not be able to vote under this law,” Schumer continued. “We will not let it pass in the Senate. We are fighting it tooth and nail.”

The SAVE Act is an “outrageous proposal that shows the sort of political bias of the MAGA right,” the minority leader added.

“They don’t want poor people to vote. They don’t want people of color to vote, because they often don’t vote for them,” the New York Democrat claimed.

Seventy-six percent of black respondents, 77% of Asian respondents, and 82% of Hispanic respondents supported requiring all voters to show photo ID to be able to cast a ballot, according to Pew Research Center’s August 2025 survey.

The House passed the SAVE America Act Wednesday with only one Democrat, moderate Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, joining Republicans in support. Cuellar is of Mexican descent and represents a district on the American southern border which is over 70% Hispanic.

Schumer also suggested during his CNN appearance the notion of federal agents monitoring the polls to stop suspected illegal immigrants from casting ballots in elections “flies in the face” of democracy.

“They show no evidence of voter fraud. They show there’s so little in the country,” he said. “And to have ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents, these thugs, be by the polling places, that just flies in the face of how democracy works, of how we’ve had elections for hundreds of years very successfully.”

“Why should you ban ICE from being at polling places? Because illegals …

Democrats will do ‘whatever it takes’ to pass Virginia redistricting plan, Jeffries says
Transparency shouldn't be controversial.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) vowed to back the ballot initiative on Virginia’s redistricting plan, saying voters will have “all of the information necessary” before the vote on April 21. 

The Virginia Supreme Court gave the go-ahead on Friday for a statewide vote that could allow the Democratic state legislature to redraw the state’s congressional map mid-decade. If approved, the new map could allow the Democratic Party to gain four new Democratic House seats, shifting Virginia’s current delegation from six Democrats to as many as 10 out of 11 seats.

Virginia is one of several states seeking to redistrict to help either party enter the 2026 elections. Jeffries said the Democratic Party will do “whatever it takes” when asked how much money would be invested in this ballot initiative.

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“We will spend tens of millions of dollars to make sure that the Republicans do not successfully manipulate voters in Virginia, and that voters have all of the information necessary to make a decision around whether they want Donald Trump to rig the midterm elections and halt the ability for the American people to decide who‘s in the majority, or whether the people of Virginia and the people of America should be the ones to decide,” Jeffries said on CNN’s Inside Politics with Manu Raju.

Jeffries downplayed concerns about the Republican National Committee out-raising the Democratic National Committee by the end of 2025, saying it is “not surprising” given the Republican Party is in the White House.

Maryland is another state seeking to redraw its map, and Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) is pushing the state Senate to vote on this. However, Democratic state Senate President Bill Ferguson is not bringing this redistricting plan up for a vote.

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Jeffries contended that Ferguson would be “successful” in his opposition, and praised the Maryland governor as “incredibly strong, resilient, patriotic, and visionary on this issue.”

Meanwhile, California is also planning its own redistricting. The Supreme Court rejected an emergency petition from the California GOP to block the state’s use of a new congressional map this November earlier in February.