{"id":67347,"date":"2026-02-25T20:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/trumps-war-on-fraud-draws-range-of-reactions-during-sotu-speech\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:01:15","slug":"trumps-war-on-fraud-draws-range-of-reactions-during-sotu-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/trumps-war-on-fraud-draws-range-of-reactions-during-sotu-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s ‘war on fraud’ draws range of reactions during SOTU speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

As President Donald Trump<\/a> vowed to wage a “war on fraud” during his State of the Union address Tuesday, a panel of voters across the political spectrum had mixed reactions.<\/p>\n

The panel, assembled by polling group Maslansky + Partners and comprising 29 Democrats, 30 independents and 41 Republicans, gave real-time reactions as Trump spoke. The reactions were displayed on a line graph where high values represented positive reactions and low values indicated negative reactions.<\/p>\n

Trump said corruption was “plundering America” and said the most “stunning example” was in Minnesota<\/a>, where welfare fraud has been a focal point and a child nutrition program scheme, in particular, led to dozens of prosecutions under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

SENATE DEM SAYS HE LEFT THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS BECAUSE HE COULDN’T ENDURE ‘HOURS OF TRUMP’S LIES’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A line graph showed Republican voters were receptive as Trump spoke, while Democratic voters had a negative reaction and independents were neutral.<\/p>\n

“Members of the Somali community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer,” Trump said, an apparent reference to the potential cost of Medicaid fraud in the state since 2018, as revealed<\/a> by a Minnesota federal prosecutor last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While it is unclear what links the Somali community has to the Medicaid claim, the vast majority of defendants in the separate $250 million child nutrition program fraud findings were of Somali descent.<\/p>\n

Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has said Trump is “demonizing” the Somali community, that Trump’s claims about his state are overstated and a political distraction and that the president is the “biggest fraudster.”<\/p>\n

OMAR SHOUTS ‘YOU ARE A MURDERER’ AND ‘LIAR’ AT TRUMP DURING STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump contended during his speech that California, Massachusetts, Maine and “many other states” were “even worse” than Minnesota.<\/p>\n

The White House has taken a multi-agency approach to its fraud initiative, giving the Departments of Justice<\/a>, Treasury, Health and Human Services and others roles in identifying abuse of welfare systems across the country.<\/p>\n

“This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation, and we are working on it like you wouldn’t believe,” Trump said. “So, tonight, although it started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great vice president, JD Vance.”<\/p>\n

Trump claimed that if the administration could find enough fraud, “we will actually have a balanced budget overnight.”<\/p>\n

“It’ll go very quickly,” Trump said. “That’s the kind of money you’re talking about. We’ll balance our budget.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As President Donald Trump vowed to wage a “war on fraud” during his State of the Union address Tuesday, a panel of voters across the political spectrum had mixed reactions. The panel, assembled by polling group Maslansky + Partners and comprising 29 Democrats, 30 independents and 41 Republicans, gave real-time reactions as Trump spoke. The … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}