Unfit to Print: FRAUD AWAKENING
Plus: GOP stalls Trump's housing bill & South Carolina Republicans block redistricting effort
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Today we’re covering the Trump admin’s major news on tackling fraud, the House fight over Trump’s housing bill, and South Carolina Republicans blocking redistricting.
FRAUD AWAKENING
Vice President JD Vance and the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud came out swinging Wednesday, announcing a crackdown on Medicare, Medicaid and student loan fraud that the administration says has already stopped or deferred roughly $1.4 billion in federal spending.
The task force’s X thread described the effort as a long-overdue cleanup of federal programs, while Vance used a White House presser to zero in on health care fraud, including a $1.3 billion deferral in Medicaid reimbursements to California and a new Medicare moratorium targeting sketchy home health and hospice providers.
The Department of Education, according to an exclusive Daily Caller report, says a new fraud-screening tool has already flagged around 300,000 suspicious student loan applications and blocked $60 million in fraudulent aid.
Trump formally created the task force via executive order on March 16, with Vance as chairman and FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson as vice chair. It also pulls in the DOJ, HHS, Education, Treasury, DHS, OMB and other agencies to assist one another in finding fraud, clawing back wasted federal funds, and stopping money from going out to scammers in the first place.
The takeaway from the White House? The gravy train is finished.
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