On Friday, Townhall posted an article about the amount of fraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is finding in federal programs.
The article reports:
The Trump administration continues to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse in federal welfare programs, as the Secretary of Agriculture revealed that over the past year, hundreds of thousands of instances of alleged SNAP fraud have been uncovered across the country. The majority of those instances, she said, have come from red states that have been eager to partner with the federal government to help ensure fraud is rooted out of their systems. Blue states, on the other hand, have been more reluctant to allow the federal government to review their programs.
The article includes the following X post:
This is the link to the post:
https://x.com/SecRollins/status/2067750726034448433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2067750726034448433%7Ctwgr%5Ec3bdeca2e4761dd46bd281d2bb268dee8015bfe0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fdmitri-bolt%2F2026%2F06%2F19%2Fthe-trump-admin-continues-to-crack-down-on-fraud-n2678006
The article concludes:
She (Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins) went on to praise Vice President JD Vance’s leadership in the White House Fraud Task Force, as the Trump administration has made rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse a central priority.
“The vice president has done a remarkable job of leading the fraud task force. And he and our other senior team has said the more fraud we can root out, the more we can protect those who really need these programs, but also protect the taxpayer and ensure that we’re doing everything we can to finally balance the budget,” Rollins added. “The federal government’s footprint has significantly shrunk. I read that the government is about the same size today as it was in the 1960s, which is a remarkable achievement as we move people from welfare to work. But this fraud is a really big component of that.”
Just ending the fraud in government spending will put us much closer to balancing the federal budget.