{"id":74992,"date":"2026-06-17T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/trumps-department-of-labor-claims-without-data-that-states-defrauded-government\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:55:07","slug":"trumps-department-of-labor-claims-without-data-that-states-defrauded-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/trumps-department-of-labor-claims-without-data-that-states-defrauded-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Department of Labor claims without data that states defrauded government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Sonderling, acting head of the agency, threatens to withhold administrative funds from states for first time in history<\/p>\n<p>Keith Sonderling sent letters to 53 states and US territories demanding action to \u201ccombat waste, fraud, and abuse\u201d within the unemployment insurance program, threatening to withhold administrative funds from states for the first time history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are officially putting governors on notice,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>said the acting US secretary of labor. \u201cThe American people will no longer tolerate the blatant waste, fraud, and abuse of their hard-earned tax dollars \u2013 no state should allow it either. If states allow it, they will suffer the consequences. This department is no longer afraid to use every lever available to ensure taxpayer money is protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/17\/trump-administration-state-fraud-claims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Sonderling, acting head of the agency, threatens to withhold administrative funds from states for first time in history Keith Sonderling sent letters to 53 states and US territories demanding action to \u201ccombat waste, fraud, and abuse\u201d within the unemployment insurance program, threatening to withhold administrative funds from states for the first time history. \u201cWe &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s Department of Labor claims without data that states defrauded government\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/trumps-department-of-labor-claims-without-data-that-states-defrauded-government\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s Department of Labor claims without data that states defrauded government\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74992","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=74992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}