The SAVE America Act won’t be enough to save the GOP from a midterm bloodbath



Turn on Fox News, scroll social media, or listen to talk radio, and one message comes through loud and clear: Many Republicans think the SAVE America Act is the key to saving the GOP in the November midterms.

It is not.

The SAVE America Act is not a magic wand. It will not erase 14 months of drift, dysfunction, and broken promises.

Yes, requiring proof of citizenship to register and identification to vote is necessary. Yes, most Americans, regardless of party, support the idea. But Republicans are kidding themselves if they think that alone will persuade voters to reward them in November.

The rot runs much deeper, and no “one simple trick” will fix it.

Trump surged to victory in 2024 on promises to change the country’s direction in dramatic ways. Fourteen months later, too many of those promises remain unfulfilled. Some died at the hands of weak and ineffective congressional leadership. Others were thwarted by feckless Cabinet officials, such as the new czarina of the Shield of the Americas, Kristi Noem. Others fell victim to Trump’s own choices.

The core promises were clear: mass deportations, a stronger economy, lower inflation, and no new long-term foreign entanglements. Those themes helped Trump assemble a broad coalition, including a majority of young men, and deliver the biggest Republican Electoral College victory since George H.W. Bush in 1988.

Now, with just over seven months until the midterms, nearly all of those promises remain unmet or badly compromised. Facts aren’t partisan — they are just facts.

Start with immigration. For all the left’s hysteria over ICE raids, Trump has deported fewer people than Barack Obama did in the first year of his second term. That came after four years of unprecedented illegal immigration under Biden. The promise of mass deportation remains unfulfilled.

Congress hasn’t helped. Ineffective Republican leadership has let the Department of Homeland Security go without funding for over a month, slowing deportation efforts while creating chaos at airports as TSA employees go unpaid. The public sees dysfunction, not competence.

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Then comes the economy.

The cost of living has not gone down. Signs point the other way. Inflation could surge past 4% as energy prices rise because of the war with Iran. Food prices remain high and may climb higher as petroleum-based fertilizer gets more expensive just before planting season. Homes remain unaffordable to most Americans. The job market sits on the edge of an AI-fueled bust. The promised relief in the form of larger tax refund checks has not materialized.

The labor market struggles as rampant H-1B visa abuse keeps importing cheaper foreign labor into high-paying STEM jobs that Americans want and are trained to do. Trump and Republican leaders still talk about H-1B as though it were a strategic advantage rather than a direct threat to their own voters.

Guess what? Voters have noticed.

Recent polling shows Democrat James Talarico leading both Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn in Texas. Former Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper holds a commanding lead in the race to replace Sen. Thom Tillis in North Carolina. Even in Maine, the Democrat challenger accused of sporting a Nazi tattoo leads Sen. Susan Collins.

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The bad numbers do not stop there. A glance at RealClearPolitics tells the terrifying tale.

Special elections are just as ugly. In those races, including the district that encompasses Mar-a-Lago, Democrats have run strongly among independent voters, the very bloc that helped solidify Trump’s 2024 coalition.

That is the problem Republicans refuse to face. The SAVE America Act is a common-sense bill, and Congress should pass it. Elections should be protected from ineligible voters. But the bill is not a magic wand. It will not erase 14 months of drift, dysfunction, and broken promises. It will not lower prices, deport illegal aliens, fix the job market, or persuade disillusioned independents to come back home.

Republicans do not face a midterm problem because they have failed to pass one bill. They face a midterm problem because they have failed to deliver on the reasons voters put them back in power.

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This scandal-ridden Democrat just got one step closer to being expelled from Congress



Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida just got one step closer to being expelled from the House of Representatives.

The House Ethics investigative subcommittee effectively found Cherfilus-McCormick guilty of nearly every campaign finance violation levied against her earlier this year. The bipartisan panel voted to start the process that could lead to Cherfilus-McCormick's expulsion after she was accused of laundering millions of dollars worth of Federal Emergency Management Agency funds related to a COVID-era contract into her campaign account.

'That raises serious concerns about due process.'

"After careful deliberation that lasted until well past midnight, the adjudicatory subcommittee found that Counts 1-15 and 17-26 of the [Statement of Alleged Violations] have been proven," the committee said in a statement.

"Shortly after the House returns from April recess, the full Committee will hold a hearing to determine what, if any, sanction would be appropriate for the Committee to recommend."

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This verdict came after the committee's six-hour hearing Thursday, which was the first public ethics hearing since 2010.

Cherfilus-McCormick is facing several accusations in addition to a federal criminal indictment ranging from filing false financial disclosures, seeking "special favors" with earmark funding requests, and improperly using funds to finance her campaign.

Ahead of the hearing, Cherfilus-McCormick criticized the committee, saying her legal team was denied "reasonable time to prepare" for the trial.

"That raises serious concerns about due process and the fundamental rights every American is entitled to under our Constitution," Cherfilus-McCormick said in a statement. "While I am limited in what I can address due to an ongoing federal matter, I have cooperated fully within those constraints."

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"I urge the Committee to follow its own precedents and uphold fairness and not allow this process to be driven by politics or numbers," Cherfilus-McCormick added. "I welcome the opportunity to set the record straight and challenge these inaccuracies, when I am legally able to do so. Make no mistake: I am innocent and I am a fighter. My district is made up of fighters. I will continue to fight for the people I was elected to serve.”

In order for Cherfilus-McCormick to be expelled, two-thirds of representatives would have to vote in favor of expulsion, requiring some Democrats to agree to vote with Republicans.

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ANOTHER Democrat in hot water over COVID-linked fraud allegations



A Democrat faces possible expulsion from Congress after federal prosecutors alleged that she stole millions in federal funds and used that money to finance her campaign.

The House Ethics Committee will host a public trial for Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) on Thursday in connection with the allegations. According to reports, such public trials are rare and signal that Cherfilus-McCormick may be in deep trouble.

The defendants 'conspired to steal that $5 million and routed it through multiple accounts to disguise its source,' the DOJ alleged.

Indeed, she is already under federal indictment.

Back in November, the Department of Justice announced that Cherfilus-McCormick, her brother Edwin Cherfilus, and other co-defendants had been charged after they allegedly bilked millions from a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract.

According to the DOJ, Cherfilus-McCormick and Cherfilus' family health care company was given a COVID vax contract in 2021 and subsequently received an overpayment of $5 million from FEMA.

The defendants "conspired to steal that $5 million and routed it through multiple accounts to disguise its source," the DOJ alleged, adding that a significant portion of the money was allegedly used to bolster Cherfilus-McCormick's 2021 congressional campaign.

The money was also allegedly used for luxury items, including "a huge diamond ring."

Cherfilus-McCormick pled not guilty in federal court in early February. At that time, she publicly stated that she is "innocent" and called the accusations a "distraction."

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Regardless of the findings of the House Ethics Committee, expelling Cherfilus-McCormick would require a vote from two-thirds of the House, and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has already declared himself a "hard no."

"So-called ‘Leader’ Hakeem Jeffries talks a big game on corruption, but when it’s one of his own, he suddenly loses his voice. Jeffries and House Democrats have the backbone of a wet paper straw," said a statement from National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella.

Cherfilus-McCormick is just one of several Democrats who've been mired in a COVID-related fraud scandal in just the last few months.

Georgia state Rep. Sharon Henderson was arrested in December for allegedly fraudulently pocketing nearly $18,000 in COVID relief. She has since been suspended in the state House.

Henderson's office did not respond to a request for comment.

Weeks later, her Democrat colleague state Rep. Karen Bennett resigned her seat in the Georgia House just before federal prosecutors charged her for allegedly stealing about $14,000 in COVID relief funds. Bennett pled guilty in January to making false statements.

Yet another Georgia Democrat, former state Rep. Dexter Sharper, was charged in late January in connection with nearly $14,000 in alleged unemployment fraud related to COVID. Sharper pled guilty and resigned his seat earlier this month.

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6 headlines you scrolled past — but Glenn Beck connects the dots and issues dire warning



Six technically unrelated news stories are all pointing in the same direction, but nobody is noticing the common thread, says Glenn Beck.

Those stories are as follows, Glenn says:

1. Recently declassified documents revealed that the Biden administration had evidence that China was accessing American voter registration data in 2020, but it “was hidden from members of Congress” and “from the people.”

2. "There is so much fraud in this country" that recovering even “half of it” could “balance the budget,” with a new task force now being launched to go after it.

3. The national debt has now surpassed $39 trillion.

4.The Supreme Court is “quietly, patiently reconsidering” the doctrine of qualified immunity — a legal rule that protects government officials from being sued for violating rights unless the violation matches an exactly identical situation already ruled unconstitutional in a previous case.

5. In Las Vegas, the Metropolitan Police Department recently defied a judge's order to release a suspect with 35 prior arrests and a conviction for involuntary manslaughter onto pretrial GPS monitoring, citing public safety risks.

6. Key allies, like Germany, France, the U.K., and others, are refusing to commit military support to reopen or secure the Strait of Hormuz — a vital global oil shipping route that Iran has heavily disrupted or de facto closed amid the ongoing U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict.

“Every story by itself is dismissible, until one day you realize they were never separate stories at all,” says Glenn

When you zoom out and see the big picture, it becomes clear that these aren’t really news stories at all, he says. “They're signals; they're sirens; they're warnings.”

There are two possibilities when it comes to these six stories, Glenn argues: Either “the government is actually starting to do its job … confronting fraud, confronting corruption, restoring accountability, having our allies take a stand one way or another,” or “the system [is beginning] to lose control of itself.”

“If this is a correction and we lean into it, we fix it, we demand the truth, we rebuild. But if this is collapse, then the most dangerous thing we can do is pretend it's normal,” he says.

“What is the solution?” he asks.

To those who aren’t connecting the dots between these six stories, Glenn’s advice is blunt: “Wake up and recognize where we are in history.”

To those who do recognize the imminent peril, he gives a choice: “There is a movement to correct [America’s deep-rooted corruption] right now. Are you part of that movement, or are you part of the movement that says, ‘I just can't do anything about it’?”

“I know which side I've chosen,” he says. “I demand ... we tear down the corruption; I demand we believe that this country is worth saving and taking the steps every day to preserve our principles in our own families, in our own neighborhood, in our own town, in our own state.”

To hear more of Glenn’s compelling analysis, watch the video above.

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Haitian fraudster gets comeuppance from Trump judge



A Haitian fraudster learned the hard way that when it comes to citizenship, the U.S. government can giveth and taketh away.

Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint, a 35-year-old Haitian national, applied to become an American citizen in early 2020. While his citizenship application was pending, Philossaint participated in an elaborate wire fraud and money laundering scheme in Florida.

'You will lose what you unlawfully gained.'

Philossaint and his co-conspirators submitted 40 fraudulent applications on behalf of numerous businesses, seeking roughly $3.8 million from COVID-19 relief programs, said the Department of Justice. The applications falsely certified the businesses' revenue, number of employees, and expenses.

The Haitian later acknowledged that after the conspirator business owners received their paydays, they paid him a fee of approximately 10% of the value of the loans, which amounted to approximately $549,000.

While ripping off his would-be countrymen, Philossaint lied in an interview with a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officer that he had never made false misrepresentations to receive a public benefit in the United States and had never committed a crime for which he had not been arrested — false representations that led to his naturalization as an American citizen.

Philossaint pleaded guilty in 2022 to wire fraud and money laundering charges and was found guilty in February 2023 of illegally obtaining his U.S. citizenship. He was sentenced in June 2023 to 50 months in federal prison.

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Of the five defendants charged in the case, Philossaint was the only individual sent to prison, reported the Miami Herald. Although initially charged in connection with the fraud scheme, the Haitian's former fiancée, Florida lawyer Mariel Tollinchi, was acquitted on all charges in 2024

The DOJ announced on Tuesday that Philossaint has been stripped of his American citizenship per the orders of U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith, an appointee of President Donald Trump.

"United States citizenship is one of the greatest privileges our nation can offer, and it must be earned honestly," U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement.

"This defendant built his path to citizenship on false statements while stealing millions from programs meant to keep small businesses alive during the pandemic," continued Reding Quiñones. "The court’s order revoking his citizenship restores accountability and reinforces a simple principle: If you lie to obtain immigration benefits and commit federal crimes, you will lose what you unlawfully gained."

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'Minnesota was big but California is even bigger': Nick Shirley uncovers staggering alleged fraud right under Newsom's nose



Journalist Nick Shirley uncovered more than $170 million in alleged day-care and hospice fraud in California, surpassing the scandal he previously exposed in Minnesota.

On Monday, Shirley shared a 40-minute video featuring him and his team confronting alleged fraudsters living in luxury at the expense of American taxpayers.

'It's like somebody took a motel building and turned it into a hundred fraudulent organizations.'

"Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger," Shirley wrote.

"We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians," he continued. "It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis."

In the video, Shirley explained that California's version of Medicare, Medi-Cal, has more than doubled from $108 billion in fiscal year 2022 to a proposed $222 billion in fiscal year 2026.

"One out of every 10 dollars of home health care in America is spent in Los Angeles," Shirley stated. "It is estimated that the fraud in California could be in the hundreds of billions of dollars."

Shirley and his crew stopped at several claimed day-care locations, including some homes in residential areas, that seemed to have no children present. In one instance, the team visited a supposed day care in an apartment complex, where they found two young children playing outside. The children informed them that no adults were present.

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"The crazy thing is California allocates $6 billion to child-care and day-care facilities just like these, and there are over 39,000 facilities in the state," Shirley said.

Shirley and his team also visited alleged hospice centers receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer funds. He explained that two of the facilities charged roughly $6,000 per beneficiary.

"It looks like there's about 15 more hospice centers inside this one plaza we're going to right now," Shirley said.

He noted that some facilities had not even registered with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, suggesting they may be shell companies.

"It's rumored that these are Armenian-Russian gangs," Shirley said.

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One of the hospice locations Shirley visited reportedly received roughly $1.3 million. However, the location was empty, with no employees or furniture inside.

"Not only are these shell companies, these are shell buildings," an individual on Shirley's team stated. "It's like somebody took a motel building and turned it into a hundred fraudulent organizations."

Shirley highlighted the luxury vehicles in the parking lot, including Mercedes, Teslas, and BMWs.

Shirley explained that fraudulent hospices collect taxpayer funds by obtaining Medicare beneficiary numbers from individuals and enrolling them in care without their knowledge.

"Must be very lucrative, because a lot of these businesses, these doors right here have nothing on them; all the blinds are turned out," he said. "This is what you call welfare maxxing."

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Los Angeles busted for MASSIVE hospice fraud scandal — Glenn Beck warns what comes next



The latest U.S. Treasury report revealed that in February 2026, the federal government paid $79 billion just in net interest on the national debt, which is approaching a staggering $39 trillion.

“We're $39 trillion in the hole. We just paid $79 billion last month for just service of the debt. Let me ask you ... is your life getting better?” asks Glenn Beck sardonically.

Of all the areas where government money is supposedly spent to improve our quality of life — roads, bridges, hospitals, public education, and airports, among others — Glenn admits the only one that's actually gotten better is the military.

“I see it in the military. And that's it. ... So where's the money actually going?” he asks.

Some of it appears to be disappearing into fraudulent schemes.

A recent CBS News investigation exposed widespread indicators of fraud in Los Angeles County's hospice industry, where "over 700 of the roughly 1,800" licensed hospice providers revealed numerous red flags — i.e., shell companies, empty offices, piled-up mail, dead phone lines, and suspicious concentrations of “businesses” in single locations.

On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn dives into L.A.’s hospice scandal, warning that the broader implications should stop us dead in our tracks.

“Final chapter of life, families gather, pain is eased, dignity is preserved, and you're stealing from that?” Glenn asks in disgust. “Wow. Medicare pays for that. No, let me rephrase that — you pay for that, your tax dollars.”

He expresses shock that “hundreds of hospice companies suddenly appeared almost overnight and nobody noticed” despite numerous glaring signs.

“Many of these [hospice companies] are run out of small little offices and storefronts and residential homes — like 30 of these companies in one little office. And they were enrolling patients who were not dying. In fact, they existed, but they didn't know they were enrolling in this,” Glenn exclaims, noting that “tens of thousands of dollars” go to every single hospice patient.

“The dying turn into billing codes. The elderly turned into profit centers,” he scoffs.

While some may argue that this is “victimless crime,” Glenn sets the record straight: “Hospice fraud means that real care is denied. Pain medication is withheld. Proper treatment is delayed. Families misled.”

“And it's not theft of just money. It is the theft of dignity at the end of human life,” he emphasizes.

But hospice fraud is just the beginning of L.A’.s woes.

The city is also funding the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles to the tune of $106 million+ to help tenants fight evictions. Except LAFLA and its lawyers also sue the city to block clearing homeless encampments, which create unsafe, disorderly conditions, hurt businesses, and violate city codes.

“The system is a joke. It's a loop,” Glenn ridicules. “Government tries to do its job. Government then funds the lawyers who want to stop it from doing its job. Lawyers sue the government. Government pays the settlement. Crisis continues.”

Add our “trillion dollar deficit in five months” to L.A.’s hospice fraud and the “legal warfare that perpetuates [its] urban collapse,” and you arrive at a sinister question, he says: “What if Los Angeles is not the exception? What if it is actually the rule?”

“We spend roughly $6.5 trillion every year. ... If just 10% of that is lost to fraud, waste, and corruption, that's $650 billion. If it's 20%, that's $1.3 trillion. That's the entire deficit,” Glenn exclaims, calling it “deeply unsettling.”

“If what we're seeing in places like Los Angeles reflects the broader system, then 20%, maybe one-third, of the federal deficit every single year may simply be because of corruption,” he continues.

If this “quiet siphoning of money from [taxpayers] through programs that are meant to be compassionate, noble, [and] necessary” is allowed to continue, Glenn warns that the consequences will be catastrophic.

Not only will it result in “financial bankruptcy” but also “moral bankruptcy.”

“If hospice fraud can flourish in the shadows, if taxpayer money can fund legal warfare against you with your money, if billions can move through programs with no accountability, then the deficit we see on paper is only part of the story,” he cautions.

“The real deficit is something harder to repair — a deficit of courage, a deficit of attention, a deficit of moral clarity. And unless we rediscover those things really soon, gang, the most dangerous line in the federal budget will not be the interest payments. It will be that silent line item that's been growing for decades: the cost of looking the other way.”

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