The Trumpian “War on Fraud” Is a Trojan Horse for Austerity
The State Financial Officers Foundation claims to be a nonpartisan, neutral body representing the guardians of state finances. In truth, the corporate donor–dependent nonprofit pushes a right-wing austerity agenda under the guise of fighting fraud.
Conservative power broker Leonard Leo has deep ties to CRC Advisors, a major funder of the ostensibly nonpartisan State Financial Officers Foundation. (Nordin Catic / Getty Images for The Cambridge Union)
As the Trump administration has slashed benefits programs like Medicaid and raided Minneapolis daycare centers in the name of a new, politicized “war on fraud,” the innocuous-sounding State Financial Officers Foundation has been cheering it on.
The organization, composed of state auditors and treasurers, wished the White House “unbridled success in that mission” and…
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