JASON CHAFFETZ: Democrats turned our treasury into a ‘piggy bank for fraudsters’

Minnesota reaches $9 billion in social services fraud under Democratic policies, with waived audits and relaxed verification rules that invited exploitation.

Democrats in Congress rejected Republican-proposed safeguards, arguing they would slow aid to those in need — effectively designing a trillion-dollar honeypot that attracted global scammers. Jason Chaffetz is a FOX News (FNC) contributor and the host of the Jason In The House podcast on FOX News Radio. He joined the network in 2017.

American taxpayers have always been a fat target.  But the industrial scale of the fraud that has been revealed in the last year is coming through programs apparently designed with glaring vulnerabilities that seem engineered for exploitation. 

The scope of the theft is staggering. In Minnesota’s Medicaid and social services programs under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, an estimated $9 billion or more has been stolen – potentially half of the $18 billion administered. Politicians waived audits, ignored whistleblowers and relaxed verification rules in favor of equity-based distributions, effectively inviting "fraud tourists" from out of state to set up shell companies.