DOGE Going After SNAP Fraud

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As DOGE’s efforts shift to eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in social welfare problems including SNAP, Social Security, and Medicaid, The Drill Down podcast welcomes a nationally recognized expert in spotting how those programs are rife with fraud. Andrew McClenahan is, among other things, intergovernmental committee co-chair for an organization called the United Council on Welfare Fraud, and has investigated fraud in the food stamp program, including one bust several years ago that stopped a $100 million fraud scheme in South Florida. The group is made up of welfare fraud investigators from every state.

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0:00.0	Research that resonates.
0:05.0	He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.
0:09.0	Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably
0:16.0	done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington. The very prescient Eric Eggers.
0:22.6	Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.
0:27.6	We're going to take information that we've learned that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,
0:31.6	and we're going to try to go further.
0:34.6	Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it.
0:37.6	Thank God.
0:38.6	Eric Eggers, from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast,
0:43.4	The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:45.7	This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:50.0	Hello and welcome to The Drill Down, where we investigate cronyism and corruption in Washington,
0:55.3	D.C. and the federal government. I am Eric Eggers. Normally, Peter Schweitzer is the first
1:00.0	voice you hear because this is the drill down with Peter Schweitzer after all. Peter Schweitzer
1:03.7	is away. And so in his place, we are excited to be joined by somebody who is no less an expert
1:10.5	at government waste and abuse than
1:12.0	Peter Schweitzer. I'm joined by Andrew McClennahan. Now, when I say he's an expert in government
1:16.4	waste and abuse, my man is literally the Intergovernmental Committee co-chair for something called
1:21.5	United Council on Welfare Fraud. And you and I have spoken at conferences together. You have literally spent your career
1:29.2	investigating fraud in taxpayer-funded welfare programs. So we're excited to have you on because we're
1:35.2	having this moment as a country where we're talking about what it looks like to eliminate waste,
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