Earlier this month President Trump named Vice President JD Vance his ‘fraud czar,’ and the VP quickly assembled a team and got to work. In short order, they have already uncovered multiple instances of hospice fraud, and to the surprise of no one, it was all occurring in yet another state run by a Democrat – this time California’s Gavin Newsom, he who wants to be president:
Vice President JD Vance is ramping up the administration’s targeting of fraud after President Donald Trump appointed him to head an anti-fraud task force last week, including the implementation of an AI platform to quickly identify and address fraud.
Vance’s task force is currently working with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, run by Dr. Mehmet Oz, and last month, CMS identified and suspended 70 hospice and home health providers in Los Angeles after they were flagged as high risk fraudulent providers. The 70 hospice and home health providers had their funding paused in just one week after being identified by the task force and CMS, Fox News Digital is told.
“As the task force to root out waste, fraud and abuse ramps up its work, we expect [the number of potentially fraudulent hospice and home health providers] to grow exponentially,” a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.
Again, this massive fraud seems to be mostly linked with states run by Democrats:
Vance and Oz announced in February that $259.5 million in Medicaid funds would be withheld from Minnesota as a result of fraud concerns that gripped the state shortly before Governor Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s former running mate, announced that he will not seek a third term.
This trend is something that Trump himself has noted:
The task force is going beyond the targeting of Minnesota, and Trump suggested Democratic-led states would be a focus during the unveiling of the task force last week.
“It seems that it’s usually in blue states,” the president said. “If it’s in a red state, we’re going there too, but it seems that it’s heavily, heavily Democrat.”
No doubt Vance’s team is looking into fraud in California as a means to saddle Newsom with more scandal sauce ahead of an expected White House bid. But the fact that they are finding so much so quickly is just another reason why the last person we should want as president is another Democrat who looks the other way while taxpayers are being fleeced.