{"id":3078,"date":"2026-07-10T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2026-07-10T06:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:36:18","slug":"republicans-are-screaming-fraud-to-cover-up-their-flimsy-slanderous-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3078","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are screaming ‘fraud’ to cover up their flimsy, slanderous lies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m no political consultant, but I don\u2019t think I would make \u201cfraud\u201d the theme of the Trump administration\u2019s midterm election campaign push.<\/p>\n

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At least not while the reflecting pool disaster remains in the news, the White House is doubling down on sticking with its no-bid contract for the company that oversaw the algae-infested, peeling pool mess, and President Donald Trump is making headlines for raking in $2.2 billion since he came back into office, including $1.4 billion from the Trump family\u2019s cryptocurrency scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have got to have a governor who takes fraud as seriously as the President of the United States,\u201d Vice President JD Vance declared Wednesday in Milwaukee during a speech apparently intended to boost Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany.<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s remarks, delivered ahead of a $10,000-per-couple fundraiser ($35,000 if you wanted a photo with the VP), could be read in different ways.<\/p>\n

One way is in the context of the poster-sized photo Vance displayed of a Black woman \u201cwith the smug look and a Louis Vuitton bag,\u201d as Vance put it \u2014 one of the people who owned prenatal care coordination businesses that a 2022 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation found had defrauded Medicaid, costing the state more than $15.5 million among them between 2019 and 2022.<\/p>\n

Vance, although he was elaborately praised by other Republicans at the Wednesday event in Milwaukee for leading the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on healthcare fraud, had nothing to do with uncovering the prenatal care scandal in Milwaukee. That was the dogged work of the Journal Sentinel reporters whose efforts led the state Department of Justice to investigate, cut off Medicaid to the fraudulent businesses and pursue criminal charges \u2014 all of that years before Vance took office. But Vance saw an opportunity in Milwaukee to connect various Trump administration claims about fraud to a picture of someone Ronald Reagan would have called a \u201cwelfare queen.\u201d In his speech, Vance moved directly from that photo to the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to \u201ckick illegal aliens out of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Black people, immigrants and people who receive food assistance and Medicaid are the \u201cfraudsters,\u201d according to Vance and Republican Reps. Tiffany, Derrick Van Orden and Bryan Steil, who joined Vance on stage in Milwaukee. They denounced Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers for not sharing sensitive personal data on SNAP recipients with the Trump administration. Vance called Evers\u2019 refusal \u201cborderline criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy won\u2019t Tony Evers turn over the SNAP rolls? \u2018Cause he\u2019s cooked the books!\u201d Van Orden hollered.<\/p>\n

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Steil connected claims about fraud in SNAP and Medicaid to discredited allegations of voter fraud, calling the federal takeover of elections Trump has been trying to force on Congress as \u201ctotal common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

When a reporter asked Vance about Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson\u2019s request to talk to him about the harassment of election workers by FBI agents deployed to Milwaukee to \u201cinvestigate\u201d nonexistent voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, Vance implied that Johnson is trying to cover up the fraud.<\/p>\n

All of this hype about fraud and repeated assertions by the GOP chorus in Milwaukee that the Trump administration had saved the taxpayers of Wisconsin billions of dollars by rooting it out, is meant to cover up a much, much bigger problem.<\/p>\n

Medicaid cuts pushed by the Trump administration and supported by Tiffany, Van Orden and Steil, coupled with the same Republicans\u2019 refusal to renew Affordable Care Act tax credits, have already pushed about 22,000 Wisconsinites off their health insurance. A new KFF report shows that insurers on the ACA marketplace are planning another double-digit increase in rates this year, driven by inflation and the loss of the tax credits, which will cause even more people to lose coverage. Altogether, more than 258,000 Wisconsinites will lose health coverage by 2034 because of Trump administration policy changes, according to by the Congressional Budget Office.<\/p>\n

While Van Orden was yelling from the stage in Milwaukee about people who are ineligible for SNAP allegedly signing up for the program and \u201cliterally taking the food out of the mouths of hungry babies,\u201d Wisconsinites know that he voted for SNAP cuts and changes to eligibility rules that led to 15,500 Wisconsinites losing food assistance.<\/p>\n

Instead of adequately funding healthcare, food and a decent society, Republicans pushed through trillions of dollars in tax giveaways to corporations and the very rich, tens of billions of dollars for a domestic paramilitary organization that is conducting violent arrests of people who pose no public safety risk, and hundreds of millions of dollars for an obscene White House ballroom and no-bid contracts for Trump\u2019s vanity projects on the national mall. That is the real fraud.<\/p>\n

Republicans are screaming about \u201cwaste, fraud and abuse\u201d to try to distract voters from all of this destruction and graft. But their \u201cfraud\u201d talk just reminds people of the stunning theft of public resources they\u2019ve enabled and are now trying to cover up with flimsy, slanderous lies.<\/p>\n

Read more Humiliation as Trump walks back key economic claim<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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