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Fraud Is The Inevitable Result Of Democrats’ Marxist Politics

Although voters have every reason to grumble about affordability, they should not be fooled into thinking that putting Democrats into office will fix anything.

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Another day, another instance of mass fraud. Just in the last week, a bogus Minnesota nonprofit, Partners in Nutrition (PiN), agreed to pay $18.5 million for stealing from a child food distribution program. In Ohio, “Eighteen Medicaid providers across the state … have been accused of stealing more than $355,000 from the government healthcare program for the needy.” Additionally, Vice President J.D. Vance recently “announced … that 750,000 people allegedly fraudulently enrolled in Affordable Care Act insurance plans will be kicked off the programs,” a move that will “save American taxpayers $2.2 billion.”

More and more, today’s welfare programs are becoming better known for enabling egregious fraud than for helping people in need, and this is understandably becoming an important issue for voters. Politically speaking, this is good news for reform-minded Republicans and bad news for spendthrift Democrats who want even more entitlement spending. 

Surprisingly, the person publicly pointing this out is none other than New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Speaking at the Urban 20 Mayors Summit, the socialist theater-kid extraordinaire declared, “Quality of life has come to be seen as somehow a right-wing concern. Efficiency … has been taken on as a right-wing concern, rooting out fraud and waste, a right-wing concern.” Meanwhile, Democrat politicians like Mamdani are not taken seriously on such issues.

This might be due to the many brazen examples of fraud in blue states that have surfaced over the past year. Besides Minnesota and Ohio, Chris Rufo continues to uncover widespread fraud in California and even criminal conspiracies among leftist NGOs. And in Mamdani’s own city of New York, the biggest source of work for New Yorkers is home health care, a dubious form of employment that is tailor-made for fraudsters. 

It also doesn’t help that unassimilated immigrants make up a large number of people committing the fraud. As conservative podcaster Matt Walsh discussed in a recent episode, so........

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