{"id":2352,"date":"2026-05-27T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/the-white-houses-latest-anti-fraud-spin-does-not-come-close-to-adding-up\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:07:00","slug":"the-white-houses-latest-anti-fraud-spin-does-not-come-close-to-adding-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/the-white-houses-latest-anti-fraud-spin-does-not-come-close-to-adding-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The White House\u2019s Latest Anti-Fraud Spin Does Not Come Close to Adding Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<br><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WTS-anti-fraud-spin-not-adding-up.jpg?w=804\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h2-b589cdb2-397f-4aa5-8bda-12c7bf169c6c\">No Easy Fix<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>During his State of the Union address in February, President Trump made an absurd, fantastical and quickly debunked claim: Once Vice President JD Vance had a chance to root out fraud from (blue states&#8217;) social services programs, the federal budget would be balanced and the deficit would disappear.<\/p>\r\n<br>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/where-things-stand\/the-white-houses-latest-anti-fraud-spin-does-not-come-close-to-adding-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link  talkingpointsmemo.com<\/a>\r\n<br>In his February State of the Union address, President Trump made an unrealistic claim that once Vice President JD Vance addressed fraud in social services programs from blue states, the federal budget would balance and the deficit would vanish. This assertion was quickly criticized as absurd and easily debunked, highlighting a disconnect between political rhetoric and fiscal reality.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No Easy Fix During his State of the Union address in February, President Trump made an absurd, fantastical and quickly debunked claim: Once Vice President JD Vance had a chance to root out fraud from (blue states&#8217;) social services programs, the federal budget would be balanced and the deficit would disappear. Source link talkingpointsmemo.com In his February State of the&hellip;","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":2353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1062,1063,1064,84],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-jd-vance","tag-retribution","tag-stephen-miller","tag-where-things-stand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}