Sundareshan and Gutierrez Call Out Republican Hypocrisy on Fraud

0.001 percent.

That is the percentage of reported voter fraud in Arizona during the 2020 elections.

8.8 percent.

That is the percentage of fraud and errors in the Arizona SNAP program.

22 percent.

That is the percentage of fraud in the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Program.

Guess which issue Arizona Republicans are pushing false narratives of widespread voter fraud in the Grand Canyon State and across the nation?

Guess which issue Arizona Republicans are passing legislation to combat?

As a result of Trump and MAGA Congressional Republicans’ Big Beautiful-Billionaires First Bill, Arizona Legislative Republicans are pushing measures to reduce fraud in the State SNAP and Medicaid Programs.

While reducing waste, fraud, and abuse should be a priority of all public servants, Arizona Republicans are selective in what fraud they want to address.

Finding fraud, real or imagined, in the food and health assistance programs for the poor, like SNAP and Medicaid, to push for program cuts is in.

Reining in fraud on the Empowerment Scholarship Account Welfare for the Rich and Scam for the Crooked Private School Voucher Program is a non starter.

Republican hypocrisy on the issue of fraud is glaring and is another example of the MAGA- Epstein Party creating a two-tiered system where their plutocratic and mostly white supporters get legal protection and policy benefits while the rest of the country gets persecution and assistance cutbacks.

Democratic Senate Leader Priya Sundareshan reacted to this blatant Republican hyprocrisy by posting:

“The bills we voted on yesterday will not help reduce ‘error rates’ but instead will deny departments funding, leading to staff cuts and more backlogs, and keep people sicker. AZ Republicans just want to see Arizonans suffer and starve.”

Democratic Assistant House Leader Nancy Gutierrez commented to Blog for Arizona:

“I commented on this Republican hypocrisy last week on the floor. Wanting an error rate of 3% for SNAP (when that doesn’t even mean fraud) and being just fine with a 20% fraudulent purchase rate on vouchers is the definition of hypocrisy.”