Stephen Miller says eliminating all welfare fraud could balance entire federal budget

Exactly. Until you correct the real problem you’re just going to get right back in debt.

If the left stopped committing fraud we could probably go a few years with no tax at all

I think we are all saying the same thing.

The reason we have budgets that deficit spend IS SO THEY CAN STEAL IT.

And the worst is probably the pentagon. When their budget was 700 billion they said there own internal audit thought there was 100 billion wasted (so probably more like 200) and now the budget is over a trillion.

Connect the dots. John McCain loves fighter jets, ANY fighter jets, and he chaired the armed services committee, so the MIC produces them at ridiculous costs (the shatbird f22 at 350 million per plane is a good example). They then sell some planes to the Saudis. And for some reason the Saudis then donated to McCain's foundation.

Cause you see, one of the first things every congressman does when he gets in office is set up a foundation. It is against the law for congress to take money from foreign countries, and certainly a bad look to take from some companies BUT THIS DOES NOT APPLY to foundations.

Unless he's including a HUGE portion of Social Security as "welfare", this isn't possible, mathematically. Nondefense discretionary is less than $1T

If the purported $10-20 billion of fraud in Minnesomalia over the past 10 years is true, I could believe when all 50 states are included in the total fraud, theft and waste of US taxpayer money.....yeah, $250-300 billion annually seems quite possible if not probable.

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Unless he's including a HUGE portion of Social Security as "welfare", this isn't possible, mathematically. Nondefense discretionary is less than $1T

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Two things:

A large portion of the fraud is in mandatory spending, ie medicare.

Second, coming out of the covid massive spend, to ensure that the spending could continue, that did a cute little thing with discretionary spending.....

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over the past five years (2021–2026), lawmakers have shifted hundreds of billions of dollars from the discretionary realm into mandatory spending or provided multiyear mandatory allocations

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If that’s the case why didn’t they fix it in term 1?

Seems like a serious enough issue to tackle, no?


Politicians should be publicly hanged for not AGGRESSIVELY proving the dollars they take from us are properly used. What the frick are we doing?

Its not just the social programs, its everywhere.

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified $20 billion in unspent climate and clean energy grants that the previous administration had placed in Citibank accounts to be distributed by eight nonprofits. The EPA Administrator subsequently terminated these grants and froze the funds, alleging a lack of oversight and improper allocation.

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This is the friggin EPA, a small agency. Can you fathom what is going on in other agencies, or War department that has never been audited.

Russ Vought is trying to put a process in place to stop the over trillion in grants and allocations that just roll over every year in the govt with little oversight. He worked closely with Musk and Musk mentioned this as well.

Regarding social security, so everyone understands this. We had actuary charts when it was developed, we also had simple math. However, under JFK congress decided we could take the interest from social security and under LBJ and every congress since, they took every penny of interest. So what should have been an astronomical fund, is on the verge of insolvency and no one wants to address it because both sides were complicit for nearly 60 years.

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Stephen Miller says eliminating all welfare

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He could have just stopped there.