Vice President JD Vance confirmed to Blaze host Glenn Beck on Thursday that if the U.S. is going to have any kind of sustainable financial future, Congress will need to “get serious” about cutting domestic spending.

As congressional Republicans continue to work on a budget that will satisfy most members of both the House and Senate, critics have blasted the GOP for proposing new cuts across social services. Vance told Beck that he expects more cuts to come in the long-awaited “big, beautiful bill,” but for the long term, weeding the fraud out of social services is critical.

“What no one talks about, and when I talk to [Elon Musk], and I talk to the DOGE folks, where they think they’re gonna get the most cuts is in taking [off] illegal aliens and other people who are defrauding the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security systems,” Vance said.

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