Overview
- President Trump said Friday on Truth Social that Vice President J.D. Vance will run a national anti-fraud drive with priority on Democratic-run states including California, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine, and New York.
- Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles announced Thursday the arrest of eight people in alleged hospice and health care fraud schemes worth about $50 million, which the White House tied to the task force’s work.
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, working with the effort, has suspended more than 200 California hospice and home-health providers flagged as high risk, according to the White House and multiple reports.
- Vance has added senior staff to scale prosecutions and controls, swearing in Colin McDonald as assistant attorney general for fraud enforcement and naming Scott Brady as the task force’s executive director.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz dispute the administration’s blue-state focus and point to their own crackdowns, with Minnesota also suing after a federal pause of roughly $250 million in Medicaid funds.