Analysis: Trump's favorite F-word is getting a workout

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Even if Trump's executive order withstands an expected court challenge, and even if there ends up being a new nationwide requirement to provide documentation of citizenship before registering to vote, Trump has created an insert-allegation-of-fraud-here template for future candidates and presidents.
43% : Preventing fraud was also the stated reason for the Social Security Administration clamping down on those trying to change their bank account information over the phone.
42% : The agency, which like most of the federal government is already reeling from Musk's efforts to cull the size of the federal workforce, would have been crushed by people showing up at understaffed Social Security Administration Offices.
41% : Never mind that the more appropriate data set suggested a problem a fraction of that size. Musk, writes CNN's Tami Luhby, is "on the hunt for fraud" at the Social Security Administration.
41% : His Department of Government Efficiency unleashed chaos at the agency that provides benefits to 73 million Americans when it announced a new policy to require in-person visits from people who could not verify their identity online.
41% : DOGE cuts and 'fraud' Defending cuts by DOGE, Trump said during his speech to Congress last month that the group, staffed, he said, by "intelligent, mostly young people," has "found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.
31% : 'Waste, fraud and abuse' Trump promised during his presidential campaign that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits would not be touched.
30% : During his second presidential term, Trump isn't bothering with trying to identify election fraud; he's simply moving forward with plans to change the system anyway.
23% : Trump won two of the presidential elections in which he was a candidate, but he's alleged election fraud in all three.
22% : Trump knows this because his company was found guilty of criminal tax fraud in 2022 and he was found liable for civil tax fraud in New York last year.
13% : Trump and Elon Musk have both repeatedly argued, by misrepresenting the data in a government database of Social Security numbers, that many millions of very, very old people might be fraudulently getting benefits.

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