How Trump Is Trying to Make 'Fraud' the New DOGE

Inside the president's gambit to make Americans hate Medicaid — and look the other way on his administration's corruption.

Mar 24, 2026

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Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research. Subscribe to her Substack. Don Moynihan is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. Subscribe to his Substack, Can We Still Govern?

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A guest post by

Pamela Herd

Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research.

A guest post by

Don Moynihan

Professor of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. Immigrant. Researches and teaches about government, administrative burdens, and politicization.