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FGA in the News: Ending Washington Schemes and Fraud

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If D.C. had a word of the year, it would be “accountability.”

Not a word you’d usually associate with Washington, but the Trump administration is tackling the waste, fraud, and abuse that has had a stranglehold on our country for years.

From the historic welfare reforms of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill to cracking down on non-citizen voting and getting junk food out of food stamps, important changes are being made that protect the truly needy and save taxpayer money.  

As Washington continues the hard work of bringing common sense back to government, FGA experts are sharing their insights on why these reforms are so urgently needed. Here’s the latest:

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board |The Government Shutdown Stakes for the GOP

Despite what you may read, letting them expire wouldn’t gut the Affordable Care Act. Someone at 100% of the poverty line would still on average pay merely $3.45 a week in premiums for the cheapest middle-tier plan, according to Brian Blase of Paragon Health Institute and Trevor Carlsen of the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA). Taxpayers would still pay 98% of the premium.

FGA Expert Opinions:

The Washington Times | Democrats would rather shut down government than help rural America

Democrats now claim they are fighting to save rural hospitals. They are saying Republicans are the ones putting hospitals at risk. If that’s true — and it’s not — then why are they demanding the repeal of $50 billion for rural health care? Why are Democrats voting to defund rural America?

The Wall Street Journal | The Politics of ObamaCare Subsidies

Democrats should be losing the government shutdown fight, since they’re denying the votes needed to pass a funding bill. But they could end up winning this showdown in the end, because President Trump and Republicans are showing signs that sooner or later they’ll cut a big check for ObamaCare. That’s a shame because the GOP needn’t be afraid of the politics.

The Daily Wire | Who Benefits From Democrats’ Shutdown Plan? Illegal Aliens And Big Insurance

When you look behind the spin and empty talking points, illegal aliens and big insurance companies benefit most from the Democrats’ ongoing filibuster of the budget and government shutdown.

AMAC Newsline| Democrats Didn’t Shut Down the Government Over Health Care -They Did It to Protect ObamaCare Subsidies Fraud

The Democrats are pretending this shutdown is about your health care. It’s not—it’s about fraud.

They want you to believe the sky is falling—your health care is going to double in cost (or go away completely, depending on the day), and low-income ObamaCare enrollees are going to get left out in the rain. 

These are scare tactics, designed to cover up for the proposal they’re really pushing: an extension of temporary COVID-era subsidies, riddled with fraud they’d rather not admit exists. 

National Review | Blue States Embrace Fraud to Get Welfare for All

Democrats’ refusal to side with taxpayers — and oppose fraud — speaks volumes about their priorities. The federal government has already found that more than one in ten dollars in the food stamp program — more than $10 billion in total — goes to improper payments. In California, 11 percent of food stamp spending is wasteful; in New York, it’s 14 percent. But the Trump administration strongly suspects that the real number is much higher, and in a recent analysis, it found that taxpayers are likely forking over a further half a billion to people enrolled in multiple states.

The Blaze | Honor system? More like fraud system

Most Americans assume proof of citizenship is required to vote. It isn’t. But thanks to the Trump administration’s new rule, the honor system that governs voter registration may finally be replaced with real safeguards. At a time when Americans can’t seem to agree on anything — not even how to avoid a government shutdown — one principle still unites the country: Only U.S. citizens should vote in U.S. elections.

Townhall | Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill Offers Rural Hospitals a Lifeline — And Democrats Can’t Stop Lying About It

Here are the facts. Yes, some of America’s hospitals are in bad financial shape, but not because of the president’s new law. In fact, the president’s new law will throw them a much-needed lifeline. The real problem facing America’s hospitals is their addiction to a fundamentally and irreparably flawed Medicaid program.

The Carolina Journal | Federal changes come to the rescue, as NC Medicaid expansion backfires

President Trump is now trying to fix the program to make it financially viable. The president’s new law — which goes into effect by the end of next year — does that in two ways: by ensuring the removal of ineligible people from the program and by requiring able-bodied adults without young kids to either work, learn, or volunteer at least part-time. This will shore up North Carolina’s finances by overcoming the state’s unwillingness to scrutinize eligibility.

Fox News | Trump unlocks cheaper healthcare plans that could save American families thousands of dollars

The president is fixing one of the fundamental problems with ObamaCare. That law forced Americans who get their insurance on the individual market to buy costly plans, and in the 11 years since the law went into effect, they’ve gotten even pricier. 

FGA Statement | FGA Encourages Passage of a Clean CR to End the Government Shutdown

“The clean CR before the Senate is nothing more than a date change on the same bipartisan spending plan Republicans and Democrats agreed to back in March. This is not the end of democracy or an ‘authoritarian power grab’—it’s a generous status quo agreement.”

FGA Blog | Yes, Illegal Aliens Get Medicaid and ObamaCare—Protecting That is Why Democrats Shut Down the Government

As much as the media and the Democrats try to spin it to be about health care, this ongoing federal government shutdown is about Democrats wanting to give welfare to illegal aliens and handouts to big insurance companies.

The truth hurts—the truly needy, that is.

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