From NY Post:
In an editorial Wednesday, the outlet said Shirley’s investigation led to Minnesota’s Somali fraud scandal finally piercing the national consciousness, quipping that such a “spirit of scrupulousness would have been nice a few billion tax dollars ago.”
The editorial board contended that this nonchalant attitude toward cracking down on fraud is “especially true when it comes to open-ended entitlement programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.”
“As America’s welfare state has ballooned to more than 80 major federal programs, they’ve become a target-rich environment for alleged scam artists like those in Minneapolis. Walz’s boondoggle underlines the need for serious reforms across America,” the Post wrote. “Too bad that too many progressive leaders are lackadaisical at best about cracking down on fraud and errors, lest it curtail social services.”
The Post noted that several Democratic states have sued to block federal efforts to “root out waste and fraud” with threats to cut off SNAP funding if states refuse to share recipient data, including immigration status.
The outlet further noted that the Trump administration may not have the legal ability to cut off the funding.
“The truth is that SNAP doesn’t just help the hungry,” the Post wrote. “It had the fourth highest rate of documented fraud across all federal programs from 2018 to 2022, coming in at $10.5 billion.”
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