{"id":64701,"date":"2026-07-17T10:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64701"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:47:02","slug":"what-are-their-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64701","title":{"rendered":"What Are Their Priorities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/not-single-democrat-showed-wednesdays-senate-hearing-taxpayers-defrauded\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=westernjournalism&amp;utm_campaign=dlvrit&amp;utm_content=square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Western Journal<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Senate Democrats shunned a Wednesday hearing called to hear testimony about allegations of fraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>As noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/2077414829007024204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on X<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/committees\/hearings_meetings.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs<\/a> Committee held a hearing Wednesday without any Democrats attending.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In his prepared testimony, journalist Nick Shirley, who helped expose social services fraud in Minnesota, said fraud is being publicized because it is so pervasive and easy to find.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Activist journalist James O\u2019Keefe, noting that he filmed alleged fraud in gathering signatures to allow candidates to be on the ballot in California, also testified.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThe question before this Committee is not whether this fraud exists. The question is why the incentives allow it to flourish. There is money in fraud. There is no money in exposing the fraud,\u201d he said in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/Testimony-OKeefe-2026-07-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prepared remarks<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThey campaign in this building about freedom and protecting democracy, preventing disenfranchisement, and how nobody is above the law. But if those principles are not enforced when they are violated in broad daylight, they are not principles at all. They are slogans. And without accountability, our notion of freedom is just an illusion,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the committee chairman, noted on X that tales of fraud are mind-boggling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Citing one example, he said, \u201c7,000 patients at one adult daycare is billing $12 million. This is just one location engaging in massive fraud. Imagine how many others are out there and how much of your hard-earned money is being set on fire because of fraudsters,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RandPaul\/status\/2077153162562277380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on X<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where were the Democrats? Isn&#8217;t the fraudulent use of taxpayer money of concern to them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, The Western Journal reported the following: Senate Democrats shunned a Wednesday hearing called to hear testimony about allegations of fraud. 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