Yesterday, our friend Stephen Moore, through his Committee to Unleash Prosperity Hotline, alerted us to a meeting of state attorneys general who gathered in Washington to discuss the Trump administration’s antifraud initiatives. The event was originally intended for Republican attorneys general, but Vance later extended the invitation to Democrats.
It turns out that not one of the Democrat state attorneys general attended the by-invitation only meeting at the White House, chaired by Vice President JD Vance, on efforts to combat the hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud at the state level in programs like Medicaid, food stamps, day care centers, and unemployment insurance.
Not one! Remember: The state AG is the highest-ranking law enforcement official in the state. Yet, they begged out with excuses like “prior commitments.” We’d love to know what those pressing commitments were exactly, Steve Moore asked rhetorically.
“Everybody should care about fraud. Everybody should care about rooting out fraud,” Vance said. “Everybody should care about saving the American taxpayers money, and importantly, everybody should care about actually protecting the programs that only work and are only properly funded.”
“In just two months, we exposed billions of dollars in benefits that had been stolen from the American people,” Vance said, according to reporting by CNBC. “We referred over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans back to the Treasury for collection. We deferred more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements that were coming from various states, particularly California. We put a six-month hold on enrollments for new hospice and home health care providers, because so many of the newer hospice providers were not actually providing hospice services, but were just focused on fraud.”
There are only two possible explanations why the Democrat attorney’s general boycotted the meeting. One, they don’t care about the rampant criminal activity that is fleecing Americans taxpayers. Or two, they are in advanced stage Trump Derangement Syndrome, suggested Steve.
We’d like add a third possibility: They are pro-fraud because it moves vast sums of money and lots of votes into the Democrat column, in states like Minnesota and California.
Among the attorneys general who declined to attend is Keith Ellison of Minnesota, whose state has been the focus of Trump administration actions targeting alleged Medicaid fraud schemes involving day care centers.
Ellison is credibly alleged to have known about and been in on some of the schemes than no less a witness than the convicted ringleader of one of the schemes.
In Democrat-controlled California, Chris Rufo of City Journal co-authored a report on "Gavin Newsom's Empire of Fraud.” Rufo’s report documents that California has lost at least $180 billion due to fraud, and the state's fraud stems from three main sources: Medi-Cal fraud, unemployment fraud and general welfare fraud.
Through Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force, we’ve already seen results in California: eight arrests in a $50 million health care fraud scheme, and 447 hospice facilities and 23 home health agencies suspended for suspected fraud costing roughly $600 million.
Vice President JD Vance announced that the administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California and is threatening to suspend federal funding to all states if they don’t aggressively prosecute fraud in their Medicaid programs. The move is similar to the one the administration took in February suspending Medicaid payments to Minnesota.
Vance earlier this month said the administration is taking aim at California because the state “isn’t taking its program seriously.”
The administration has specifically taken issue with California’s In-Home Supportive Services, or IHSS. That program helps roughly 900,000 seniors in the state and people with disabilities with daily activities so they can remain in their homes instead of institutional settings like a nursing home.
Christopher Rufo said he hopes to spur additional action through his reporting, and that a big area of focus for him has been California's in-home care program.
The program is intended to help support those who cannot work because they must provide full-time care for a loved one. But Rufo said it has become the most common job in the state.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, claimed that California’s home health spending is growing at twice the rate of other states. The federal government will withhold Medicaid funds until the state can explain why, he added.
It turns out that not one of the Democrat state attorneys general attended the by-invitation only meeting at the White House, chaired by Vice President JD Vance, on efforts to combat the hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud at the state level in programs like Medicaid, food stamps, day care centers, and unemployment insurance.
Not one! Remember: The state AG is the highest-ranking law enforcement official in the state. Yet, they begged out with excuses like “prior commitments.” We’d love to know what those pressing commitments were exactly, Steve Moore asked rhetorically.
“Everybody should care about fraud. Everybody should care about rooting out fraud,” Vance said. “Everybody should care about saving the American taxpayers money, and importantly, everybody should care about actually protecting the programs that only work and are only properly funded.”
“In just two months, we exposed billions of dollars in benefits that had been stolen from the American people,” Vance said, according to reporting by CNBC. “We referred over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans back to the Treasury for collection. We deferred more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements that were coming from various states, particularly California. We put a six-month hold on enrollments for new hospice and home health care providers, because so many of the newer hospice providers were not actually providing hospice services, but were just focused on fraud.”
There are only two possible explanations why the Democrat attorney’s general boycotted the meeting. One, they don’t care about the rampant criminal activity that is fleecing Americans taxpayers. Or two, they are in advanced stage Trump Derangement Syndrome, suggested Steve.
We’d like add a third possibility: They are pro-fraud because it moves vast sums of money and lots of votes into the Democrat column, in states like Minnesota and California.
Among the attorneys general who declined to attend is Keith Ellison of Minnesota, whose state has been the focus of Trump administration actions targeting alleged Medicaid fraud schemes involving day care centers.
Ellison is credibly alleged to have known about and been in on some of the schemes than no less a witness than the convicted ringleader of one of the schemes.
In Democrat-controlled California, Chris Rufo of City Journal co-authored a report on "Gavin Newsom's Empire of Fraud.” Rufo’s report documents that California has lost at least $180 billion due to fraud, and the state's fraud stems from three main sources: Medi-Cal fraud, unemployment fraud and general welfare fraud.
Through Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force, we’ve already seen results in California: eight arrests in a $50 million health care fraud scheme, and 447 hospice facilities and 23 home health agencies suspended for suspected fraud costing roughly $600 million.
Vice President JD Vance announced that the administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California and is threatening to suspend federal funding to all states if they don’t aggressively prosecute fraud in their Medicaid programs. The move is similar to the one the administration took in February suspending Medicaid payments to Minnesota.
Vance earlier this month said the administration is taking aim at California because the state “isn’t taking its program seriously.”
The administration has specifically taken issue with California’s In-Home Supportive Services, or IHSS. That program helps roughly 900,000 seniors in the state and people with disabilities with daily activities so they can remain in their homes instead of institutional settings like a nursing home.
Christopher Rufo said he hopes to spur additional action through his reporting, and that a big area of focus for him has been California's in-home care program.
The program is intended to help support those who cannot work because they must provide full-time care for a loved one. But Rufo said it has become the most common job in the state.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, claimed that California’s home health spending is growing at twice the rate of other states. The federal government will withhold Medicaid funds until the state can explain why, he added.
