Democrats damn themselves with no-shows at hearing – Latest News
As Republicans expose fraud within the tens of billions in Medicaid and different welfare applications, Democrats’ response is to . . . duck.
They made it manifestly apparent final week as Sen. Rand Paul chaired a Senate Homeland Security Committee assembly: Nearly all of the panel’s Dem members have been whole no-shows; solely Sen. Gary Peters attended at all, and solely long enough to ask a few questions earlier than heading for the door.
The hearing truly coated two very totally different fraud topics:
Independent journalist Nick Shirley reviewed his welfare-fraud discoveries, together with blatant abuses of Medicaid by New York grownup day cares.
Strange: Dems have extraordinarily robust views on each points. They’ve been slamming Republican strikes to trim Medicaid and different welfare outlays for years now, denouncing anti-fraud measures as “savage cuts”; Senate Dems are even now utilizing the filibuster to forestall a flooring vote that might go the SAVE Act to counter voting fraud.
Yet they merely boycotted a hearing the place they might have poked holes in GOP claims as they grilled the witnesses.
Do they suppose their own case is so weak that they don’t dare even attempt to make it?
