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Dem lawmakers conspicuously and unanimously absent from election fraud hearing

July 17, 2026 | | Print Article

Make no mistake about it, the actions of Democratic lawmakers screams that they could not care less about the fleecing of U.S. taxpayers — in large part because their party appears to be on the receiving end of the largess.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing titled “Exposing Fraud in America.” Chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), the hearing focused on waste, abuse, and illegal activities within various federal programs and election systems and only one Democrat showed up. Briefly.

Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), the ranking member on the committee, showed up for the hearing’s opening statements, but apparently left before Paul addressed witnesses Nick Shirley, James O’Keefe and Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette.

Shirley has been instrumental is exposing hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud around the country, including the Somalian daycare theft ring in Minnesota. Democrats dispute his efforts while members of the corrupt media have actually targeted him for daring to expose the fraud.

“When we talk about fraud, we are talking about money stolen from hardworking, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens,” Shirley said at the hearing.

“This issue has nothing to do with political parties, because no dollar says Republican or Democrat on it,” he added. “When a fraudster commits fraud, he or she steals from all of us. The worst part is that fraud affects the most vulnerable and needy, as they rely the most on government services.”

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Here’s more from Shirley about the no-show Democrats: “Imagine this: you get paid by our tax dollars and you don’t even show up to do your job when it involves our tax dollars being stolen. Wtf are these people doing in office if they don’t even care about our money being stolen and wasted? They are simply working against us.”

“Working against us” is an understatement, given today’s Democratic Party. It’s clear that they want the status quo to continue, but then, their goal all along has been to overwhelm and otherwise collapse the federal government. At taxpayer expense.

The only consistency here is that no one is ever held accountable — here’s a sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

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