One Nation Under Fraud: Trump Administration Uncovers Massive Welfare, Citizenship Abuses

In this Just the News article, Steven Richards reports that the Trump administration says it has uncovered a sprawling web of welfare, Medicaid, immigration, citizenship, and student-benefit fraud schemes draining taxpayer-funded programs.

• The article says the administration’s fraud investigations were initially fueled by scrutiny of the massive Minnesota food-aid scandal, where more than 70 people were charged in a federally funded program allegedly exploited for personal enrichment.
• Investigators are now looking beyond Minnesota, with reports of questionable home-health and personal-care companies billing government programs for loosely supervised services such as cooking, cleaning, and companionship.
• One Ohio investigation reportedly found a single office building housing 94 companies that collectively billed taxpayers $66 million over several years.
• President Trump signed an executive order creating a national task force to combat welfare fraud, with Vice President JD Vance leading the effort.
• The task force recently shut down 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies in California after federal officials raised concerns about fraudulent providers.
• The administration also announced a freeze on $1.4 billion in federal funding for home health and hospice providers nationwide.
• Vance sent letters to all 50 states demanding proof that they are aggressively prosecuting Medicaid fraud or risk losing federal funds.
• CMS Director Dr. Mehmet Oz claimed there are signs of foreign-government-linked exploitation in Medicaid-related schemes, including alleged Russian involvement in Los Angeles and Chinese involvement in New York.
• Federal authorities have also pursued cases involving EBT theft, foreign criminal organizations, immigration fraud, suspicious foreign student employment claims, and denaturalization actions against naturalized citizens accused of obtaining citizenship fraudulently.
• The broader message is that government generosity becomes an open invitation to organized abuse when verification, enforcement, and state-level oversight are weak.

Read the full story: https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/one-nation-under-fraud-trump-admin-uncovers-mass-welfare