Trump Cancels $1.3 Billion in Medicaid Payments to Fraud and Piracy Ridden State of California

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One Nation Under Fraud: Trump administration uncovers massive welfare, citizenship abuses

The cost to taxpayers identified by Vice President JD Vance's task for targeting government benefit programs is mounting, and no plausible explanations are forthcoming.

The Trump administration's work to pare back waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government has reportedly exposed a vast network of taxpayer-fleecing scams, abuses of immigration, and of the citizenship process across all corners of the United States.

The story involves resettled refugees soaking up federal paychecks to run home healthcare and childcare businesses, transnational criminal organizations exploiting food benefit programs, and scammers using fake student profiles to make off with millions in federal student loans. It also involves non-monetary forms of fraud, especially in immigration -- legal and illegal alike.

Minnesota's Somali community just the start

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Recent public reports indicate that federally-funded state government programs beyond just Minnesota are ripe for exploitation and fraud. In a sweeping investigation, the Daily Wire and a researcher from the Capital Research Center found that Ohio spent billions of federal dollars on "personal services" payments to home healthcare companies with dubious credentials.

These funds are frequently used to compensate individuals for performing non-medical tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and "companionship" for their own family members. Because these services are conducted inside private residences without supervision, it can be difficult to verify actual service delivery.

Yeah this is just foreigners and other pirates signing up to be paid what they are supposed to do for free -- care for their family members.

"I provided three meals last week to my elderly father." Yeah you're fucking supposed to, jackass. The taxpayer isn't on the hook for buying McDonald's three times (and you charging the taxpayer $200 per "service rendered."

The investigation found a surge in dubious home health companies that appear to exist solely to bill the government. In Columbus, the reporters found a single windowless office building that houses 94 different companies that have collectively billed taxpayers $66 million over a few years. Many of the business owners lacked medical training or had criminal records, the outlet reported.

There is evidence that this type of fraud is specifically encouraged by the way federal government programs are set up. For example, the Office of Refugee Resettlement runs a program that helps new immigrants develop "microenterprises," like home healthcare companies, "to help generate an income and achieve self-sufficiency."

Welfare fraud a top priority

The Trump administration has made hunting down this type of welfare fraud a top priority. President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this year establishing a national task force to combat such fraud and appointed Vice President JD Vance to lead it.

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California and Ohio were apparently only the tip of the iceberg. On Wednesday, the task force announced that it would be halting $1.4 billion in federal funding for home health and hospice providers across the entire United States.

Vance also issued an ultimatum to all 50 states on Wednesday, demanding they show that they are adequately protecting against fraud in federally funded Medicaid programs, or risk losing that funding.

"Today, we are sending, across 50 Medicaid programs, letters that will require them to show that they are effectively and aggressively prosecuting Medicaid fraud in their states," Vance said at a press conference. "These letters are the first step. The first effort to try to force these states to get serious about prosecuting fraud."

"We're a generous country. We're generous people. I love that about this country," the vice president added. "But part of that generosity is that it extends to our fellow Americans. We cannot give Medicare and Medicaid benefits to everybody all over the world."

They've cancelled $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California due to Newsom deliberately allowing widespread looting of the American treasury, gay "news" network NBC complains.

Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump 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.

As part of his role as the fraud czar, Vance said that the administration is targeting California because the state isn't taking fraud seriously.

"There are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn't taking its program seriously, but also you have people who have been prescribed medications that they don't even need. They've had drugs put into their bodies that they don't need because fraudsters have actually encouraged false prescriptions and false administration of medications," Vance said at the White House.

The move is similar to the one the administration took in February suspending Medicaid payments to Minnesota.

Hello. Happy Thursday.

Crowey dropped in to grab the last of the turned ground beef. He carried it off to his nest.

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