{"id":147931,"date":"2026-01-24T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147931\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T15:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:30:25","slug":"vice-president-vance-claims-7b-fraud-in-california-surpassing-minnesotas-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147931\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Vance claims $7B fraud in California, surpassing Minnesota’s figures"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Vice President JD Vance said the fraud uncovered in California<\/a> dwarfs the fraud in Minnesota<\/a>, claiming that the Small Business Administration found $7 billion in fraudulent payments in the Golden State.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have a fraud problem that is much worse in California than it is in Minnesota,\u201d Vance said during an interview on NewsMax.<\/p>\n

Vance shared that he learned this information from Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she’s found probably half a billion dollars of fraud in Minneapolis and the broader Minnesota area,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she’s found $7 billion in fraud in California,\u201d Vance continued.<\/p>\n

For weeks, conservative influencers such as Nick Shirley<\/a> and Benny Johnson have been teasing their plan to unveil alleged fraud occurring in California.<\/p>\n

Johnson first teased the alleged fraud on January 6 in a X post where he listed a laundry list of allegations including $24 billion on fake homelessness programs, $18 billion on high-speed rails, $32 billion in COVID relief stolen and $2.5 billion in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats are panicking because exposure like this ends political careers. We saw it with Tim Walz. Newsom is next,\u201d Johnson wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Johnson has yet to release a video unpacking the allegations.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Shirley, who harpooned the Trump administration\u2019s attention to allegations of fraud in Minnesota, testified before Congress that the fraud in California may be worse than Minnesota.<\/p>\n

The National News Desk reached out to the Small Business Administration for further information regarding the $7 billion in fraud in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Vice President JD Vance said the fraud uncovered in California dwarfs the fraud in Minnesota,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,73481,73479,3130,6500,4226,73480,53812],"class_list":{"0":"post-147931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-conservative-influencers","12":"tag-financial-scandal","13":"tag-fraud","14":"tag-jd-vance","15":"tag-minnesota","16":"tag-political-impact","17":"tag-small-business-administration"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}