Congress’s Unconstitutional Spending Spree Must End to Stop Fraud

What we’re doing now to fight massive fraud—shifting a program here or arresting someone there—is nothing more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Ted Noel | August 28, 2026

Every day (if you read real news) we see multiple new cases of documented fraud. Medicare fraud. Election fraud. Small Business Administration fraud. “Green” fraud. And on and on.

Elon Musk originally estimated that his “lower bound guess for how much fraud there is nationally is ~20% of the Federal budget, which would mean $1.5 trillion per year. Probably much higher.” That guess is now being proven to be conservative. It gives life to the late Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen’s (possibly apocryphal) comment that “A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”

Our national debt has just passed $40 trillion. That’s real money.

Every time we catch a fraudster, we take one bad actor off the field...out of thousands. That’s like fixing one dent on your car that you left out in a hailstorm. Somehow the car still looks like a huge golf ball.

We simply cannot pull a single weed from the field. We must pull them all, but that’s impossible because, as the prophet Jeremiah told us, “The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?” (Jer 17:9). There will always be more fraudsters. If you don’t read the Bible, just check your phone at dinner time.

The real answer to the dents is to pull your car into the garage before the storm. But we’ve left the government out in a field full of weeds. As long as there are government programs dropping c-notes out of helicopters, there will be evil people out there figuring out how to push others out of the confetti and keep it for themselves. And that’s the problem.

Every time someone cries out, Congress decides it must intervene to solve the “crisis.” And Congress never argues with Rahm Emanuel, who declared that we should “never let a crisis go to waste.” Of course, no federal program ever fails. It just “hasn’t gotten enough money to actually work,” so Congress always increases........

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