The Democrats Have a Fraud Problem

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The specter of welfare fraud haunts the Democrats once again. Concerns about abuse of generous government programs helped power the rise of Reagan-era conservatism in the 1970s and '80s. Could the criminal abuse of hundreds of millions of dollars in welfare costs in Minnesota, which has brought down the state's Democratic governor, Tim Walz, be leveraged to similar broad political effect today?

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The specter of welfare fraud haunts the Democrats once again. Concerns about abuse of generous government programs helped power the rise of Reagan-era conservatism in the 1970s and '80s. Could the criminal abuse of hundreds of millions of dollars in welfare costs in Minnesota, which has brought down the state's Democratic governor, Tim Walz, be leveraged to similar broad political effect today?