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America’s Homeless Crisis Goes Full DEI in Portland · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome in as Ben Ferguson show. It is so nice
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us. All Right, We've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot that we've got to cover today on the show.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot that deals with waste, fraud and
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  Speaker 1: abuse that we're going to talk about coming up in
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit. There's some really big breaking news
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  Speaker 1: about that and what the Trump administration is doing to
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  Speaker 1: crack down on it. It's a phenomenal story. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to have that for you coming up. It deals with
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  Speaker 1: food stamps and qualifications and the majority of the states
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  Speaker 1: around the country where there is so much fraud here
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  Speaker 1: it is going to enrage you. But before I get
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  Speaker 1: to that, we have something here that is really exclusive
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  Speaker 1: and shocking, and I want to get it to you first,
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  Speaker 1: and it deals with cities across America where homeless services
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  Speaker 1: are being doled out based on race and sexual identity
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  Speaker 1: like a score in a basketball game. To be clear,
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  Speaker 1: if you identify as gay or lesbian or transgender, you
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  Speaker 1: get bonus points for that. If you are a minority
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  Speaker 1: and your skin color is not white, you get bonus
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  Speaker 1: points for that. If you are someone that doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: a home, will give you even more bonus points for
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  Speaker 1: that if you mean the list is truly incredible. Now
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  Speaker 1: here's what's more shocking than any of that. If you
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  Speaker 1: are a senior citizen, being gay gets you more points,
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  Speaker 1: so you have a better chance of getting services. If
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  Speaker 1: you are identifying as LGBTQIA two s plus, then you do.
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  Speaker 1: If you are actually disabled or fifty five and older.
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  Speaker 1: How did we get to this point? Center Cruz joined
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  Speaker 1: If you want to know how bigoted the Democratic Party is,
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  Speaker 1: look no further than how they treat homeless people. They've
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  Speaker 1: got a scoring mechanism. Now you get bonus points for
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  Speaker 1: certain things while being homeless in America, and then you
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  Speaker 1: get services aka rewarded based on your race and your
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  Speaker 1: sexual identity. Now, this is like English is a second language,
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  Speaker 1: gets you two points, So just think of that as
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  Speaker 1: a jumper. If you're pregnant, that's a three pointer. We
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  Speaker 1: give you more points. If you're pregnant. If you're a
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  Speaker 1: child under five, you get three points. If you're a
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  Speaker 1: child under eighteen, you only get one point. So, in
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  Speaker 1: other words, and if you're head of household and you're
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  Speaker 1: under eighteen, we give you bonus points two points for that.
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  Speaker 1: There's an actual quota list of points you receive depending
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  Speaker 1: on how you describe yourself. And if you say that
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  Speaker 1: you know you're gay or lesbian or transitterter, that's bonus
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  Speaker 1: points as well.
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  Speaker 2: So look, we talked a minute ago about the hierarchy
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  Speaker 2: of victim groups in the Democrat Party. It's a notion
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  Speaker 2: that's called intersectionality. And in the Democrat Party, being LGBT
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  Speaker 2: or being a racial minority is more privileged than simply
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  Speaker 2: being poor and being homeless. And let's talk. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: talk about Portland, Oregon, because Portland, Oregon is almost like
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  Speaker 2: a deranged faculty lounge experiment gone awry. I'm gonna read
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  Speaker 2: from an article in pro Public up to be clear
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  Speaker 2: pro Publica is not a right wing outlet, it is
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  Speaker 2: a left wing outlet. But here's what they described.
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  Speaker 1: Quote.
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  Speaker 2: As the city of Portland, Oregon, clawed its way out
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  Speaker 2: of the pandemic, it faced a new set of crises.
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  Speaker 2: The city's homeless population was growing. Tens lined some city blocks.
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  Speaker 2: High powered business associations held press conferences demanding the city
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  Speaker 2: remove homeless people, and touted self funded surveys saying that
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  Speaker 2: without action, businesses and residents would flee the city. By
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  Speaker 2: late spring twenty twenty one, the city committed to a
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  Speaker 2: new strategy that then Mayor Ted Wheeler said would quote
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  Speaker 2: reprioritize public health and safety among homeless Portlanders, ultimately allocating
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  Speaker 2: one point three billion dollars by the end of twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. Now, let's see what the results were. Although
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  Speaker 2: the city spent roughly two hundred thousand dollars per homeless resident,
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  Speaker 2: stop and think two hundred grand per homeless resident. You
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  Speaker 2: could house them and feed them. Two hundred grand is
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money. That's what they spent. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think it did. What do you think massively spending
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  Speaker 2: and saying we're prioritizing the safety of homeless people. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think it produced.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to guess close to nothing, because it's a
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  Speaker 1: government program and liberals are in charge. Sorry, call me
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  Speaker 1: a c.
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  Speaker 2: You're not cynical enough. Nothing would be better. Close to
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  Speaker 2: nothing would be better. The death rate among homeless people
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  Speaker 2: in Portland quadrupled, went up four hundred percent. The death
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  Speaker 2: rate went up from one hundred and thirteen and twenty
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  Speaker 2: nineteen to more than four hundred and fifty in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three. So when liberals say we are going to
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  Speaker 2: focus on the homeless, if you're homeless, god help you,
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  Speaker 2: because at at least in Portland, what that meant was
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  Speaker 2: the death rate quadrupleed. Now they also put in place,
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  Speaker 2: as you reference, an elaborate point system.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and this is not a joke, like it's
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  Speaker 1: literally and they even tell you like, hey, you can't
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  Speaker 1: get double points if you get points in one category
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  Speaker 1: compared to another category. So if you're pregnant under eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: that's bonus points, but only if you haven't already gotten
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  Speaker 1: points for being pregnant on another another piece of paper,
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  Speaker 1: for another point in system. It's just it's unbelievable how
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  Speaker 1: well organized.
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  Speaker 2: It is, so look, and I'll say, actually, pregnant makes
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  Speaker 2: some sense. Prioritizing pregnant women that has a reasonable basis
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  Speaker 2: you are more vulnerable. But English is a second language
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  Speaker 2: that was worth two points. Head of a household under
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  Speaker 2: eighteen that was worth two points. Interest in LGBTQ services
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  Speaker 2: that was worth one point.
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  Speaker 1: Interest. So it just makes you say, I think I've
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  Speaker 1: thought about being gay or transittered or lesbian, and then
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  Speaker 1: you get one bonus point.
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  Speaker 2: So total disabilities impacting entire household ability to secure housing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what that means, but it's worth
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  Speaker 2: three points.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Interest in culturally specific services that's two points.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I don't know by the way I mean comparing that.
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  Speaker 1: Just so you understand how woke this is. If you
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  Speaker 1: are over the age of fifty five fifty five plus,
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  Speaker 1: which is a higher vulnerable category, I think we can
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  Speaker 1: all agree on that. For homelessness you get two points.
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  Speaker 1: For that, you get the same number of points if
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  Speaker 1: you're interested in culturally specific services. You can just catch
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  Speaker 1: up to somebody that's fifty five, sixty, seventy, eighty, eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: ninety years old.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and also worth two points as being a domestic
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  Speaker 2: violence survivor. Now, now that actually is rational and makes
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  Speaker 2: sense that you would prioritize domestic violence survivors. But in
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  Speaker 2: the Portland world, interest in a culturally specific service is
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  Speaker 2: equally prioritized to being a domestic violence server survivor. Now,
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  Speaker 2: how about this, what do you think being poor is like?
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  Speaker 2: Like having let's say something crazy zero income, Like if
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to help homeless people having zero income, you.
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  Speaker 1: Would think that would be one of the top scoring
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  Speaker 1: things on a sheet because that would get you, obviously
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  Speaker 1: to be homeless. So you would think like that would
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  Speaker 1: be worth something, right, guess one point? It's not one
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  Speaker 1: point one point one point, And if you're homeless for
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  Speaker 1: a year or more you only get one point. But
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  Speaker 1: if you are currently homeless, this is what's weird. Currently
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  Speaker 1: homeless gets you two points. Wouldn't that also mean you
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  Speaker 1: get one point for being homeless for like twelve months
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  Speaker 1: or more or no income. I don't know. I'd like
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  Speaker 1: this is DEI on a whole nother level of stupid.
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  Speaker 2: Look, here's what they said they've done so Maltnomah County, Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: which is home of Deep lou Portland, where deaths of
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  Speaker 2: homeless people quadrupled between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: The county screening tool for housing services is designed. And
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  Speaker 2: this is a quote from the county to quote prioritize
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  Speaker 2: BIPOC households, LGBTQIA two s plus yep and people with disabilities. Yes, again,
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  Speaker 2: this is not they're spending two hundred grand per homeless person.
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  Speaker 2: With two hundred grand.
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  Speaker 1: You can buy somebody a house.
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  Speaker 2: You could buy someone a house, but you can pay
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  Speaker 2: that would make too much sense. You could pay rent
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. You could get someone in a
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  Speaker 2: hotel room, you could feed them, you could get the
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  Speaker 2: medical care. And yet the death rate quadrupled because they
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  Speaker 2: were more interested in LGBTQ elementop like like the number
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  Speaker 2: of letters there. I can't even It reminds me of
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  Speaker 2: that crazy Canadian who got up and gave this incredibly
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  Speaker 2: long stream that I'm pretty sure was her WiFi password.
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  Speaker 2: But they're more interested in their woke policies than they
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  Speaker 2: are actually in helping someone who needs help.
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  Speaker 1: And mention two hundred thousand a person, just to put
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  Speaker 1: it in perspective, with everything we know, you got to
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself the question how much fraud's involved here, massive, massive, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to spend that much money two hundred thousand.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to watch see with it.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's driving a Ferrari, somebody's driving a Lamborghini.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah there's Yeah, you're you're absolutely right about that one.
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  Speaker 1: When Donald Trump was elected, he promised he was going
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  Speaker 1: to root out waste, fraud and abuse. We have learned
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  Speaker 1: just how corrupt our government actually is. We've learned that
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  Speaker 1: Medicare and Medicaid there's massive fraud up care, massive fraud.
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  Speaker 1: We have learned that it's in food stamps, and now
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  Speaker 1: the Foundation for Government Accountability has exposed even more explaining
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  Speaker 1: now that millionaires and lottery winners are collecting food stamps.
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  Speaker 1: You heard that right, Under a massive, purposely created federal loophole.
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  Speaker 1: It is now possible for millionaires and lottery winners to
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  Speaker 1: get food stamps. The best way you can describe this
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  Speaker 1: is it is fraud. By design, and this is not
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  Speaker 1: protecting the needy. It is costing taxpayers hundreds of millions,
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  Speaker 1: which then turns into billions of dollars. And it's all
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  Speaker 1: called broad based categorical eligibility. That is how they have
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  Speaker 1: now turned this entire system into a fraudulent system on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say they, I'm talking exactly about the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party. I want you to listen and carefully to
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  Speaker 1: how broad based categorical eligibility works because it may sound boring,
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  Speaker 1: but it's costing you countless tax dollars every single year.
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  Speaker 3: Today, one in eight people are enrolled in taxpayer funded foodstamps.
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  Speaker 3: This program was designed to help the truly needy, but
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  Speaker 3: thanks to a federal loophole known as broad based categorical
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  Speaker 3: eligibility or BBCE, more than forty states are exploiting the program,
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  Speaker 3: giving foodstamps to millionaires, lottery winners, and millions of recipients
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  Speaker 3: with more than enough resources to buy their own groceries.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, millions of foodstamp recipients exceed the federal asset
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  Speaker 3: or income limits. Roughly one in five of those enrollees
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  Speaker 3: have one hundred thousand dollars or more in assets. This
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  Speaker 3: loophole is no accident, it's fraud by design. Federal law
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  Speaker 3: requires states to check asset limits for anyone applying for
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  Speaker 3: food stamps. If you're sits are too high, you don't qualify.
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  Speaker 3: But here's where the BBCE workaround comes in. If someone
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  Speaker 3: is deemed eligible to receive other welfare benefits, they automatically
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  Speaker 3: qualify for food stamps.
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  Speaker 1: And states have fully weaponized this loophole.
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  Speaker 3: They created new types of welfare benefits like pamphlets, flyers,
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  Speaker 3: and hotlines not to provide aid, but to legally bypass
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  Speaker 3: income and asset limits.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just be clear about what you just heard.
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  Speaker 1: States decided that there can be simple things that you
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  Speaker 1: can be given that then categorize and qualify you as
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  Speaker 1: receiving government aid. So if you received a pamphlet on
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  Speaker 1: good parenting, single parenting, how to have a baby or
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  Speaker 1: to not have a baby, any government pamphlet that they
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  Speaker 1: have deemed to be government aid, then you at that
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  Speaker 1: exact are automatically eligible for food stamps. That's why there's
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  Speaker 1: so many recipients through the BBCE requirements that actually have
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  Speaker 1: no business receiving these snap benefits, because it's all about
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  Speaker 1: exposing and going around the traditional rules. They have wide
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  Speaker 1: discretion at a state level on how to apply it,
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  Speaker 1: and then they want to make sure that as many
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  Speaker 1: people in their state can get into these programs. Most recipients,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, if food stamps are not wealthy, but
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  Speaker 1: what we're witnessing is most are also not poor. And
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  Speaker 1: many of these families can afford their own groceries. But
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  Speaker 1: because they were given a pamphlet from the government that
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  Speaker 1: these state deems, as you guessed it, a state benefit
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  Speaker 1: or government benefit, then automatically you are then eligible for
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  Speaker 1: food stamps. Now, this is why there needs to be
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  Speaker 1: massive reform, because if you win the lottery or you're
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  Speaker 1: a multi millionaire, my tax hour should not be paying
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  Speaker 1: for your groceries. Keep listening.
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  Speaker 3: As long as someone qualifies to receive a pamphlet, they
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  Speaker 3: are categorically eligible for food stamps. It's really that easy.
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  Speaker 3: This is fraud and mismanagement at the highest level, and
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  Speaker 3: the consequence is that it drives up the cost for
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  Speaker 3: taxpayers and threatens benefits for the truly needy. It's time
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  Speaker 3: for states to close the BBC loophole. Learn more at
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  Speaker 3: THEFGA dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Now this was one of the most powerful one minute
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  Speaker 1: and forty second videos I've ever seen, because not only
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  Speaker 1: does it explain exactly what's happening here, but now you
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  Speaker 1: understand why you and I should be paying attention to this.
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  Speaker 1: So let's move to what we now know. The Supplemental
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  Speaker 1: Nutrition Assistance Program that's known as SNAP is now being
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  Speaker 1: reported that it is experiencing the highest levels of fraud
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  Speaker 1: and theft the system has ever seen. Estimates are now
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  Speaker 1: suggesting that there are losses up to Okay, this is
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  Speaker 1: the this is the guestimates. The estimates that there are
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  Speaker 1: now losses of your tax dollars that are being gone
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  Speaker 1: through fraud and abuse and theft of more than twenty
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars annually. That is prompting increase federal, state and
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement action by the Trump administration, something that they promised. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The key aspects of the current SNAP abuse they're saying
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  Speaker 1: is number one, massive ebt theft skimming. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Criminal organizations are heavily targeting beneficiaries by using illegal skimming
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  Speaker 1: devices to then clone EBT cards. That results in hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of millions in stolen benefits each and every year. Then
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  Speaker 1: there is trafficking. What is trafficking. It's the illegal sale
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  Speaker 1: of your snap benefits for cash. It's become a significant issue.
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  Speaker 1: Many times you'll get one hundred dollars, for example, of
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  Speaker 1: food stamps right on your Snap card, and somebody will
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  Speaker 1: buy those from you for thirty forty fifty dollars whatever
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  Speaker 1: the market rate is that day in the black market.
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  Speaker 1: There's also improper payments. The program is seeing what they
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  Speaker 1: describe as a massive increase in improper payments, with a
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  Speaker 1: twelve percent rate reported in the fiscal year twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: That is often, they say, due to administrative errors or
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  Speaker 1: failure to verify data. Then you have the fraud line
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  Speaker 1: activity types. Investigations are uncovering individuals collecting benefits in not
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  Speaker 1: one state, but in multiple states, simultaneously using the identities
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  Speaker 1: of deceased individuals and misrepresenting their household income as well.
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  Speaker 1: There's also, what we've now learned today, a new aspect
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  Speaker 1: of this and it's costing you also millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: There's international crime involvement. Investigations are now exposing that international
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  Speaker 1: criminal organizations are involved in stealing benefits to fund other
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  Speaker 1: illicit activities. And then there's another type of fraud that
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  Speaker 1: apparently is massive that no one has been policing, and
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  Speaker 1: that is retail fraud. Some retailers have been implicated in
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  Speaker 1: now schemes where they exchange SNAP benefits for cash, with
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  Speaker 1: some cases involving one hundreds of thousands of dollars at
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  Speaker 1: a single location. Now the USDA's Food and Nutrition Services
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  Speaker 1: is now working, they say to replace stolen benefits and
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  Speaker 1: also improve EBT card security, including moving towards chip technology
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  Speaker 1: that we're currently not using. We also know that the
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  Speaker 1: Office of Inspector General and the Secret Service are conducting
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  Speaker 1: targeted operations they say to combat EBT fraud. But that
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  Speaker 1: is not enough, which brings us back to the woman
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  Speaker 1: who's in charge of all of this, Secretary Brook rawlins
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  Speaker 1: set in just one state, there were fourteen thousand individuals,
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  Speaker 1: and this was a Republican state that was receiving Snap
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  Speaker 1: benefits and the people that were receiving them were driving
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  Speaker 1: luxury vehicles. What types ferraris Bentley's Lamborghinis Maseratis, more than
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty Porsches, more than two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty four Alfa Romeos, more than three hundred and six
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  Speaker 1: land Rovers, And where are the frauds as coming from
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  Speaker 1: the most They were a bunch of woke liberals. They've
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  Speaker 1: drive more than two thousand and ninety Teslas. Here's part
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  Speaker 1: of what she had to say about the fraud and
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  Speaker 1: just how bad it's gotten sharing.
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  Speaker 4: Previously, no data was shared. We had no idea where
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  Speaker 4: the taxpayer dollars were spent, just one red state. The
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: recent dump of data, we found SNAP recipients had more
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: than two thousand Tesla owners, two hundred out Romeo owners,
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  Speaker 4: more than one hundred and forty four that we're receiving
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  Speaker 4: food stamps, We're driving porsches. Again, this is the data
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  Speaker 4: dumps we're getting because that we before we had no
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  Speaker 4: accountability on any of these programs. We now are requiring accountability.
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  Speaker 4: The blue states are suing us. They don't want to
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  Speaker 4: share the data. And can you imagine this was a
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  Speaker 4: red state where there is actually some taxpayer accountability. Imagine
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  Speaker 4: what's happening in the blue states. If that's happening in
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: the red state.
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  Speaker 1: Go back over those numbers. In a conservative state, you
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  Speaker 1: had fourteen thousand individuals receiving SNAP benefits that were driving
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: luxury vehicles. Three were driving Bentley's four Ferraris, eleven Lamborghinis,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: fifty nine Maseraties, one hundred and forty one Porsches or
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: two hundred and forty four out for Romeos, three hundred
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and six land Rivers, and over two thousand Teslas. These individuals,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, know what they're doing. They're taking advantage
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  Speaker 1: of you and I, the American taxpayer, and now what
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: we're seeing is offense. Not only is Brooke Rawlings working
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  Speaker 1: together with the VP, the Vice President who's in charge
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  Speaker 1: of this task force to eliminate fraud, but they now
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  Speaker 1: say that four point three million Americans have been moved
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  Speaker 1: off of the snap benefits, but they say, unfortunately, there's
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  Speaker 1: more work that needs to be done. Now let's just
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  Speaker 1: go back to that for a second. Four point three
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  Speaker 1: million Americans have been moved off of food stamps. That's
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: how much fraud they were able to find it quickly
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  Speaker 1: and easily. Now we're moving, She put out an a statement,
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  Speaker 1: the new Food and Nutrition Administration out of DC and
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  Speaker 1: into the heartland where it belongs. That also could change
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the leadership, getting rid of the woke ideology in Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. They say they're shifting staff close to those
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: they support and making us more efficient and responsive to
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the millions of families that are touched by the USTA's
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  Speaker 1: nutrition programs. They say it's going to deliver faster and
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  Speaker 1: better service for families who need nutrition assistance, and stronger
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: support for American farmers who grow the food in their tables, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: we are laser focused on serving the American people with
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: greater efficiency, and this reorganization will do just that. That
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: is great news. As there's another headline that says USDA
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: announces the Food and Nutrition Administration formally the food nutrition
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: services and actions will be moved to better serve the states.
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  Speaker 1: That is what should be happening each and every day. Now,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: let's go back to the fraud for just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: The USDA's food and Nutrition services. They say, this is
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: costing you, and this is what they're admitting to billions
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: of dollars. Why, it's pretty simple because Democrats have decided
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: that it's the best thing they can do is bribe
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: voters to vote for them by allowing them to take
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: these fraudulent benefits. So if we know that's what the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: left is doing, and they're handing out these benefits to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: buy votes, then this issue is front and center right
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: now going into the midterms. Congress, the good news, is
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: doing something about it. They're debating massive SNAP reforms, new
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: laws that would tighten work requirements nationwide. Lawmakers are also
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: looking for cost savings and fraud reduction, and they're going
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: after the BBC because the single biggest lever to shrink
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  Speaker 1: SNAP enrollment would be getting rid of that massive loophole
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: where you getting quote government aid. Yes, a pamphlet on
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: anything from the state government automatically qualifies you for food stamps. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Republicans are saying it's time to reform. You got to
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: get rid of the loophole. It enables waste, it enables fraud,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and it is enabling exactly what Donald Trump said we
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: must stop. They want to reinstate the asset tests, lower
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: income thresholds are what matter. They want to tighten eligibility. Democrats,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: of course, are saying no. They believe that this is
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a lifeline to buy votes. They say, if you push
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: millions off of food stamps, that could be millions of
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: their voters that would disappear. Now, of course they're going
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: to play the emotional game. They're going to say that
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Republicans are trying to starve people, especially children, and any
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: form of reform that means cuts Democrats are going to
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: use to their advantage. Get ready for it. It's going
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: to happen. So as we move forward, I wanted you
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to know about this program. I wanted you to understand
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the loophole, and I wanted you to understand why this
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: is so important going into the midterms for the president
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: of the United States of America. Say hey, you shouldn't
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: get food stamps just because you got a government pamphlet
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: or you even got a hotline number. In some states, Yes,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: even getting a phone number of a government agency is
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: considered government assistance. That should not make you eligible for
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: food stamps period. And the reason why forty six states
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: are doing this because they're all trying to get their
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: piece of the pie. They're trying to get some of
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: their money as fast as they can from the federal government,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: and they don't even care if it's going out for waste, fraud,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and abuse. Now, luckily, the president has a chance to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: fix this and Republicans better do their job. And that's
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: exactly why I hope you'll take everything I just gave
• 26:18
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• 26:23
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• 26:26
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