{"id":93125,"date":"2026-05-15T08:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/vice-president-vance-welfare-fraud-creates-two-victims-taxpayers-and-those-denied-legitimate-services\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:42:38","slug":"vice-president-vance-welfare-fraud-creates-two-victims-taxpayers-and-those-denied-legitimate-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/vice-president-vance-welfare-fraud-creates-two-victims-taxpayers-and-those-denied-legitimate-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Vance: Welfare Fraud Creates Two Victims&#8211;Taxpayers And Those Denied Legitimate Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Vice President JD Vance spoke in Bangor on Thursday at Bangor International Airport about the Trump administration&#8217;s push to combat fraud nationwide and the task force he has been put in charge of managing.   Vance said fraud creates two fundamental victims &#8211; taxpayers whose money is misused and those who are denied legitimate services.  So let me ask you this simple question, do you like having a government official who fights for illegal aliens over you? Do you like having a state governor who doesn&#8217;t work with the federal government to fight against fraud? he says. So, let&#8217;s kick Janet Mills to the curb, and let&#8217;s send Paul LePage to Washington to help us fight the fraudsters and protect all of you.  I can&#8217;t promise but I suspect we&#8217;re going to find hundreds of millions of more dollars every single month that we look in the state of Maine, because this is not a state that takes it seriously, Vance said.  <b>RCP&#8217;s Carolina Lumetta wrote: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2026\/05\/14\/vance_addresses_medicaid_fraud_tamps_down_2028_chatter__154118.html\">Vance Addresses Medicaid Fraud, Tamps Down 2028 Chatter<\/a><\/b>  <b>Maine Wire wrote: >a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.themainewire.com\/2026\/05\/vance-praises-maine-wires-fetherston-robinson-in-bangor-amid-anti-fraud-push\/&#8221;>Vance Praises Maine Wire&#8217;s Fetherston, Robinson in Bangor Amid Anti-Fraud Push<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/14\/watch_vice_president_vance_speaks_about_fraud_enforcement_in_bangor_maine.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President JD Vance spoke in Bangor on Thursday at Bangor International Airport about the Trump administration&#8217;s push to combat fraud nationwide and the task force he has been put in charge of managing. Vance said fraud creates two fundamental victims &#8211; taxpayers whose money is misused and those who are denied legitimate services. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4908,4008,8242,15038,2635,7549,4814,22219,4597,29135,3993],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}