Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the Trump administration would not rest until “justice is served” to those defrauding the American taxpayer through government welfare programs. 
Vance’s comments came shortly after the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minnesotas-latest-fraud-bust-may-be-the-most-disturbing-yet?author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Minnesota%E2%80%99s+Latest+Fraud+Bust+May+Be+The+Most+Disturbing+Yet">charged</a> 15 people across Minnesota with stealing $90 million through various fraud schemes targeting Medicaid and social service programs. Fraud in Minnesota has received widespread attention after independent journalist Nick Shirley took a camera to questionable entities raking in taxpayer dollars and asked about their operations. 
“Our message is simple: if you were committing fraud, our task force will find you. We&#8217;ll come after you, and we will not rest until justice is served,” Vance said in a video message. “Don&#8217;t defraud the American taxpayer. Don&#8217;t get rich by trying to steal from them, or we are going to come after you until justice is served. That&#8217;s our promise, and we&#8217;re going to stick to it.”
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Today, the task force and the DOJ announced a massive take down of two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota state history, as well as the largest autism fraud scheme ever charged by the federal government. Our message is simple: if you’re committing fraud, we will… <a href="https://t.co/MNfkLlOY0R">pic.twitter.com/MNfkLlOY0R</a>
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Vance, heading up the Trump administration’s anti-fraud task force, said that the charges announced Thursday included two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota history and the largest autism fraud case ever brought by the federal government. 
“With this action, we&#8217;re bringing justice to some of America&#8217;s most vulnerable citizens and justice to the American taxpayer,” he said. 
Medicaid fraud has come under heavy scrutiny from Republican officials in recent weeks after Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/medicaid-millionaires">published a series</a> documenting how Ohio spent a billion dollars on home healthcare in 2024. The home healthcare services included activities such as “homemaking” and “chores” for family members. 
The report found that just seven buildings in Columbus housed 288 home healthcare businesses that billed taxpayers more than $250 million. State officials appear to do little vetting for the so-called home healthcare companies. Vance has warned that states that do not combat fraud could lose their Medicaid funding. 
The vice president noted that one of the cases brought Thursday involved a defendant accused of billing Medicaid for around-the-clock care for a disabled man who was later found dead after receiving no actual services.
“To get rich off taxpayers, even at the cost of others&#8217; lives, just as that fraudster had for many months before. This kind of behavior is sickening,” Vance said. 
Aimee Bock, the founder of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, was sentenced to nearly 42 years in prison on Thursday over a $250 million fraud case involving meals supposedly given to children during the COVID pandemic.

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The Justice Department is actively investigating Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for immigration fraud over allegations that she married her brother, Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday.
Vance, who is leading President Donald Trump’s crackdown on fraud, was answering a question from Daily Caller White House reporter Reagan Reese, who asked about a possible indictment against Omar.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to prejudge an investigation. I mean, you read the things about Ilhan Omar and about who she married and whether she didn&#8217;t marry this person or that person. It certainly seems like something fishy is there,&#8221; Vance said during a White House press conference.
“If we think that there’s a crime, we’re going to prosecute that crime, and that’s something the Department of Justice is looking at right now,” he said.
Omar is accused of marrying her brother in order for him to secure a green card.
President Donald Trump himself has advocated for the Minnesota lawmaker to be &#8220;thrown out of the country.&#8221;
The federal government can denaturalize foreign-born individuals if they commit fraud as part of the immigration process, though the Justice Department has not publicly confirmed Vance&#8217;s claim that it is investigating Omar.
Omar came to the United States as a refugee in 1995 and secured her citizenship in 2000 at 17 years old.
Omar married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, whom some allege is her biological brother, in 2009. The pair reportedly separated in 2011 and divorced in 2017.
It was Omar&#8217;s second marriage.
Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in a religious ceremony in 2002, but the union was never legally recognized.
She claimed to have split from Hirsi in 2008. The couple reconciled just months after Omar&#8217;s split from Elmi.
Omar has called allegations that she married her brother &#8220;absurd and offensive.&#8221;
A spokesperson for Omar didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment on Vance&#8217;s announcement.
In March, Vance said Omar “definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America” and said that the Trump administration intended to “go after her.”
“We actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” Vance said at the time. “And I talked to [Trump adviser] Stephen Miller about this recently, we’re trying to look at what the remedies are.”
“What are the legal remedies now that we know she’s committed immigration fraud? How do you go after her? How do you investigate her? How do you build the case necessary to get some justice for the American people?” Vance added.
The vice president also said that a spotlight is on Omar for her alleged ties to “a lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somali community” in Minneapolis.

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Vice President JD Vance unveiled what could become the Trump administration&#8217;s midterm messaging on Thursday as he took shots at Maine Democrats and touted the wins of the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force.
Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd in Bangor, Maine, Vance accused Democrats of refusing to cooperate with efforts to crack down on abuse and corruption.
“What I find so preposterous about Maine—it&#8217;s not just that we&#8217;ve found tens of millions of dollars of fraud in a relatively small state, it&#8217;s that we&#8217;ve had no cooperation from the state government,&#8221; Vance said.
Vance specifically called out the state&#8217;s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, saying her political career had been ruined by her eagerness to defend transgender ideology, and urging her to cooperate with the task force on targeting fraud before her tenure is up.
“I would love to work with the governor of Maine to stop the fraud that&#8217;s being perpetrated in this state,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;This should not be a red or blue state issue. This isn’t Republican or Democrat. This is common sense. This is protecting every person in this room from being defrauded by their own government.”
It was the vice president&#8217;s first trip to tout his Anti-Fraud Task Force, and Vance leaned heavily into that fraud messaging.
&#8220;Because you all work hard, because you all pay your taxes, because you do things the right way, it is time to have leadership in Washington that treats you the right way and protects those hard-earned tax dollars,&#8221; the vice president said. “For the first time in a very long time, you&#8217;ve got an administration in Washington, DC that is fighting for you, fighting to protect your tax dollars, and fighting to put the fraudsters in prison.”
As an example of this fraud the administration has uncovered, Vance pointed to the case of 30-year-old Rakiya Mohamed, who pleaded guilty in early March to filing false tax returns for 2018 and 2019 and interfering with the administration of federal tax laws. 
Mohamed owned a language interpretation business called Reliable Language Resources, but according to the vice president, she wasn&#8217;t doing any interpreting. 
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&#8220;This woman, her name was Rakiya Mohamed. It turns out that Rakiya Mohamed was not a particularly upstanding citizen,&#8221; said the vice president. &#8220;So while she said that she was providing interpretation services, do you know what she was actually doing? Providing zero services and collecting $15 million over a five-year period that was going directly into her pocket.&#8221; 
&#8220;That happened pretty much during the entirety of the Biden administration and no one in the Biden administration thought to step in and stop this ridiculous fraud,&#8221; he added. 
Vance went on to link the Trump administration&#8217;s anti-fraud message to its immigration agenda.
&#8220;Call me crazy, but I think that when we welcome new immigrants to the United States of America, they should be people who enrich our country and bring some good skills into the country, not a person who is gonna steal $15 million from the people in this room,&#8221; Vance said. 
He also referenced reporting by The Daily Wire&#8217;s Luke Rosiak, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=DW+Investigation+Reveals+One+Of+The+Biggest+Government+Waste+Scandals+Hiding+In+Plain+Sight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uncovered</a> large-scale Medicaid fraud involving home health agencies and questionable reimbursements.
&#8220;Every single day I learn of something new,&#8221; Vance shared. &#8220;I learn about people who say that they’re claiming for hospice services, but in fact, they’re not providing any services and they’re making hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in the process.&#8221;
On Wednesday, Vance announced that the Trump administration would cut off certain federal anti-fraud funding to states that don&#8217;t aggressively investigate Medicaid abuse, escalating the White House&#8217;s anti-fraud measures.
“Vice President Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud continues to produce results for the American people,&#8221; a Vance spokesperson told The Daily Wire. &#8220;In just two months, the task force has exposed billions of dollars in fraud and worked with law enforcement agencies to ensure that fraudsters are brought to justice. The hunt for fraud will continue until every last person who takes advantage of Americans’ generosity is stopped.”

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After a bombshell Daily Wire investigation into waste, fraud, and abuse tied to the government-funded home health care industry, the Trump administration moved on Wednesday to freeze over a billion dollars’ worth of spending and is warning states to root out fraud or pay the price.
The White House fraud task force <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-halting-medicare-enrollments-new-home-healthcare-hospice-providers-2026-05-13/">announced</a> on Wednesday morning that not a single new home health care company would be enrolled in Medicare while the Trump administration probes the program. Around <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vance-led-task-force-cuts-home-health-hospice-providers-suspected-fraud.amp">$1.4 billion</a> in funding for home health care and hospice providers has been paused. 
“Widespread fraud has gone on for far too ​long. But under the Vice President&#8217;s task force we are finally putting a stop to the massive scale fraudsters ripping off the ​American people once and for all,” said a spokesman for Vice President JD Vance. 
 The announcement comes days after Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families">published a series of stories</a> documenting how Ohio spent a billion dollars on home health care in 2024. Home health care services can include things like doing “homemaking” and “chores” for family members. 
Vance, who runs the fraud task force, is set to warn states to crack down on fraud or risk losing federal Medicaid funding, the Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-jd-vance-medicaid-fraud-40e9e78e">reported</a>. The federal government provides over 60% of Medicaid funding for most states, and the Trump administration is expected to start an audit on Wednesday of state Medicaid Fraud Control Units to ensure they are doing enough to combat fraud. 
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These shocking allegations, if true, show why the Fraud Task Force’s work is so important. I’m directing the task force to look into it and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate. <a href="https://t.co/dg9prv9mYz">https://t.co/dg9prv9mYz</a>
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“Your failure to do your job,” Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Thomas Bell wrote in a letter to the states, “has put all of your state’s Medicaid funds in jeopardy.”
The plan was developed by Vance and Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson, who is working with Vance on the task force.
&#8220;The American taxpayer is tired of states receiving billions of dollars to police fraud and elder abuse and instead using that money for no-show jobs,&#8221; FTC director of public affairs Joe Simonson <a href="https://x.com/SaysSimonson/status/2054564421951795308">said</a>. &#8220;We cannot have a country with entitlements built on fraud and theft. Our most vulnerable are suffering.&#8221;
Vance vowed to investigate home health care in response to The Daily Wire’s “Medicaid Millions” series on Ohio, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-ohios-home-health-empire-7-buildings-288-medicaid-companies-250-million">showed</a> that just seven buildings in Columbus housed 288 home health care businesses that billed taxpayers more than $250 million. Columbus is home to one of the largest African immigrant populations in the country.
“These shocking allegations, if true, show why the Fraud Task Force’s work is so important. I’m directing the task force to look into it and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate,” he posted, sharing a thread from Rosiak detailing the uncovered fraud.
During the pause of new approvals of home health care and hospices funded by Medicare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will audit the home health care system, which is fully funded and administered by the federal government. States with funding from both the federal government and the states administer the Medicaid home health program. 
On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-gop-launches-new-task-force-probes-alleged-250b-medicaid-fraud-ohio">tasked</a> Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) with leading a new task force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses. Gill will focus the task force’s efforts on investigating home health care and Medicaid in Ohio in the wake of The Daily Wire&#8217;s reporting. 
“The reports of Ohio’s Medicaid fraud scandal are appalling — and we’re just uncovering the tip of the iceberg of the fraud and swindling of millions of American dollars,&#8221; Gill told The Daily Wire. &#8220;My Task Force is demanding answers and transparency from the Director of the Ohio Department of Medicaid, as we will continue to press those who need to account for their abuse of American taxpayers.”
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A new poll shows Secretary of State Marco Rubio leading a hypothetical 2028 Republican presidential primary to succeed President Donald Trump.
The survey, <a href="///Users/jacobwheeler/Downloads/Atlas%20Poll%20USA%20-%2005.07.2026%20-%20Google%20Slides.pdf">conducted by AtlasIntel</a> between May 4-7 among 2,069 American adults, found Rubio with 45.4% support, followed by Vice President JD Vance at 29.6%. 
The rest of the field trailed significantly.  
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">Marco Rubio: 45.4%</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">JD Vance: 29.6% </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Ron DeSantis: 11.2% </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">None of the above 10.3%</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Vivek Ramaswamy: 1.4</li>
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The AtlasIntel poll is the first to show Rubio ahead, while broader polling still favors Vance.<a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/republican-primary/2028/national"> RealClearPolitics</a>, a media company that aggregates national polling, shows the vice president holding a 20-point advantage over other potential candidates.
Rubio and Vance are widely seen as the most serious contenders to succeed Trump and shape the future of the MAGA movement.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-takes-a-spontaneous-2028-presidential-straw-poll-vance-or-rubio">Trump addressed the elephant in the room</a> at the White House on Monday, polling a crowd on whether they would prefer Vance or Rubio to run for president in 2028. 
“I don’t know. Who’s it going to be? Is it going to be JD? Is there going to be somebody else? I don’t know,” Trump told a group of law enforcement officials.
The kingmaker of GOP politics then asked the crowd who they thought should succeed him. 
“Who likes JD Vance? Who likes Marco Rubio? All right. Sounds like a good ticket,” Trump joked.
Applause from those in attendance appeared stronger for Vance, but Trump said he was not yet making any endorsements.
“By the way, I do believe that’s a dream team. But these are minor details. That does not mean you have my endorsement under any circumstance. But you know … I think it sounds like presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate,” Trump said. 
Rubio said last year that he would support Vance if the vice president decided to run for president. 
“If JD Vance runs for president, he’s going to be our nominee, and I’ll be one of the first people to support him,” Rubio <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-susie-wiles-interview-exclusive-part-2?_sp=66ff928d-0547-4be8-9f21-3d5c5d7322ce.1773164665694">told</a> Vanity Fair in an interview. 
On the Democratic side, the field appears more divided and open-ended, with a democratic socialist leading the pack. 
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"> Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 26%</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Pete Buttigieg: 22.4% </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Gavin Newsom: 21.2% </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Kamala Harris: 12.9% </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Andy Beshear: 4.1% </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Cory Booker: 3.9% </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">None Of The Above: 3.1%</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Josh Shapiro: 2.4%</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Gretchen Whitmer: 1.1%</li>
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Last Friday, AOC did not rule out a presidential run. 
“They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat, and my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a conversation with Democratic strategist David Axelrod. “Presidents come and go … elected officials come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever.”
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President Donald Trump polled a crowd at the White House on Monday, asking if they would like to see Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio run for president in 2028. 
“I don&#8217;t know. Who&#8217;s it going to be? Is it going to be JD? Is there going to be somebody else? I don&#8217;t know,” Trump told a group of law enforcement officials at the White House on Monday. 
He then asked the crowd who they thought should succeed him. 
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Applause from those in attendance appeared to be louder for Vance, but Trump said he wasn’t making any endorsements yet. 
“By the way, I do believe that’s a dream team. But these are minor details. That does not mean you have my endorsement under any circumstance. But you know … I think it sounds like presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate,” Trump said. 
Rubio said last year that he would support Vance if the vice president decided to run for president. 
“If JD Vance runs for president, he’s going to be our nominee, and I’ll be one of the first people to support him,” he <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-susie-wiles-interview-exclusive-part-2?_sp=66ff928d-0547-4be8-9f21-3d5c5d7322ce.1773164665694">told</a> Vanity Fair in an interview. 
That comment has not held off speculation that he may still make a presidential run, especially with his long list of responsibilities within the administration. 
Last year, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-reveals-who-will-most-likely-be-the-2028-republican-nominee">said</a> he believed that Vance would be the “most likely” 2028 GOP nominee. 
“Well, I think most likely, in all fairness,” Trump said when asked last August if MAGA would line up behind Vance in 2028. “He’s the vice president. I think Marco is also somebody that maybe would get together with JD in some form.”
Trump, however, did not fully endorse Vance at the time. 
“I also think we have incredible people, some of the people on the stage right here, so it’s too early obviously to talk about it,” he said. “But certainly, [Vance] is doing a great job, and he would be probably favored at this point.”

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Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday that uncovering fraud in the federal government was like “fishing in a barrel with dynamite.” His comment came after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=DW+Investigation+Reveals+One+Of+The+Biggest+Government+Waste+Scandals+Hiding+In+Plain+Sight">reported</a> Monday that Ohio was doling out federal Medicaid dollars for people to spend time with their families. 
Vance, who is heading up the President Donald Trump’s Fraud Task Force, said he is surprised every week to find what kind of fraud his team was discovering. 
“Finding fraud in the federal government, it&#8217;s kind of like fishing in a barrel with dynamite. Every week, I get a report for the task force,” Vance said during an appearance in Iowa. “I am shocked every single day by the things that we find.”
Vance previously promised on Monday that the Fraud Task Force would dig into The Daily Wire’s reporting on Medicaid fraud in his home state. 
“These shocking allegations, if true, show why the Fraud Task Force’s work is so important. I’m directing the task force to look into it and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate,” he wrote on X, sharing a thread from Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak detailing the uncovered fraud.
Rosiak reported Monday that Ohio spent a billion dollars on home health care in 2024, the last year for which data is available. What these funds went toward was difficult to verify because they often went toward “home health care” performed in private residences by family members of those getting the care.
During his speech in Iowa, Vance said that the Trump administration was working to go after the fraudsters who have grown rich by defrauding the American taxpayer. 
“We had let fraud become so rampant in this country that people were able to get rich, not by creating something amazing, not by employing something, not by building something beautiful with their hands,” Vance said. “They were able to get rich by defrauding every single person in this room.”
The vice president said Somali fraudsters in Minneapolis had taken advantage of a program intended to help autistic children and discussed rampant Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) waste uncovered by Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins. 
He said that Rollins had found 355,000 people receiving double SNAP benefits and 186,000 dead people on SNAP. 
“I actually think that we should take food stamps away from dead people,” Vance said. “I&#8217;m guilty of that. I think that&#8217;s a reasonable thing.”
The fight over SNAP fraud has now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-more-food-stamps-for-millionaires-the-fight-over-snap-fraud-heads-to-the-states">headed to the states</a> where lawmakers are attempting to eliminate a loophole called broad-based categorical eligibility which allows people to qualify for SNAP without asset testing.

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Ohio State Auditor Keith Faber said Tuesday that officials are preparing to move on potential Medicaid fraud uncovered by a Daily Wire investigation.
Faber, a Republican running for state attorney general, said in an interview with radio host Bruce Hooley that he was ready to make the transition from uncovering fraud to prosecuting those responsible for it — and that The Daily Wire&#8217;s recent investigation had given him a great place to look deeper.
Faber and Hooley discussed the investigation by The Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak and said they would certainly not be surprised to find a fair amount of fraud in a massive government program like Medicaid. Because the state is responsible for determining who is eligible for benefits at the federal level, all that is necessary for fraud and abuse is for someone not to look too closely at what&#8217;s happening at the bottom.
Still, Faber said that an investigation was clearly warranted — and that Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s promise to get his federal task force involved would open up much broader access to data.
The next step, Faber said, is a full audit to get comparative data from around the state and line up the different counties side by side — and if there were anomalies between counties that should show similar use of those programs, they would know where to dig deeper.
&#8220;If you have a program, for example, that I testified six weeks ago in front of the Medicaid Joint Committee, that literally is a $1.6 billion program, 38% of of that money is spent in Franklin County — and by demographics, Cuyahoga County is 16%, which should be about the same as Franklin County, you&#8217;re saying something&#8217;s unusual, that&#8217;s an anomaly in the data,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;And then if you find that 40% of that 38% — or more than $200 million — is spent in two zip codes, you&#8217;ve got something going on in those two zip codes that is not happening throughout the rest of the state with a huge over-utilization of these programs.&#8221;
Rosiak&#8217;s report, published on Monday, detailed dozens of &#8220;home health&#8221; companies operating out of a single, small building in Columbus. While there are legitimate uses for home health — to lower costs by helping patients avoid nursing homes — the services offered by such companies open the door for family members to receive a federal paycheck for providing simple home services or even just companionship to an older relative. Fraud, as Rosiak noted, is nearly impossible to prove because the services — if provided at all — are provided in private residences.
Vance responded to the report immediately, saying in an <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/2051391872623362379">X post</a> that he planned to have his Fraud Task Force review the findings and begin prosecuting anyone found to have defrauded the government.
&#8220;These shocking allegations, if true, show why the Fraud Task Force’s work is so important. I’m directing the task force to look into it and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate,&#8221; he said.
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Vice President JD Vance said Monday that he is directing the Fraud Task Force to investigate suspected Medicaid fraud uncovered in his home state, thanks to a Daily Wire investigation.
Vance addressed the unfolding story in an X post, first saying he wanted the task force to review the evidence and then, if warranted, take immediate action to put an end to the fraud.
&#8220;These shocking allegations, if true, show why the Fraud Task Force’s work is so important. I’m directing the task force to look into it and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate,&#8221; he posted, sharing a thread from Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak detailing the uncovered fraud.
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These shocking allegations, if true, show why the Fraud Task Force’s work is so important. I’m directing the task force to look into it and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate. <a href="https://t.co/dg9prv9mYz">https://t.co/dg9prv9mYz</a>
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In the thread that followed, Rosiak explained how he had found one building that purported to house 94 &#8220;home health&#8221; companies — companies that were supposed to provide the kinds of home health services that keep people out of nursing homes, saving on costs. But the potential for fraud and abuse, he noted, is massive.
&#8220;This includes people getting paid to provide &#8216;companionship &amp; conversation&#8217; to their own relatives. Fraud [is] almost impossible to prove because service happens in private houses,&#8221; Rosiak noted, adding, &#8220;Home health was supposed to save money because it&#8217;s cheaper than being in a nursing home. Problem is, no one fakes their way into a nursing home. But lots of people will claim to be sick if they get to stay at home and get free checks for their family.&#8221;
In the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families">full report,</a> Rosiak wrote:
<blockquote>The business model is simple: a 40-year-old Somali immigrant gets paid for spending time with, and maybe cooking for, his own 65-year-old mother. The middleman is one of thousands of “home health” firms that have the “NPI” number necessary to bill Medicaid.
The 40-year-old becomes an “employee” of that company, but has no clients other than his mother. There is no way to verify whether he actually even provided the “services” — unless his own mother is willing to testify against him.</blockquote>
Rosiak&#8217;s investigation, conducted over two months, uncovered additional examples of fraud and abuse, and more details are expected to be revealed in the days to come.
Two months. Millions of documents. A full investigative team. That’s what this story required. Most outlets can’t afford work like this, which is why it doesn’t happen. We’ve chosen to make it happen. <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/fight/?utm_campaign=missional&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=article&amp;utm_content=medicaid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Support more of it by becoming a member of Daily Wire.</a>

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WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Marco Rubio will head to Rome this week to smooth things over with the Vatican amidst tensions between the United States and Pope Leo over the Holy Father&#8217;s criticisms of Operation Epic Fury.
Rubio&#8217;s visit to Italy will take place from Wednesday, May 6, to Friday, May 8, and is formally intended to &#8220;advance bilateral relations with Italy and the Vatican,&#8221; the State Department said on Monday, noting that Rubio will &#8220;meet with Holy See leadership to discuss the situation in the Middle East and mutual interests in the Western Hemisphere.&#8221; The Holy See says Rubio will meet privately with Pope Leo, who is the first pope from the United States. He will also meet with Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state.
The meeting comes amid high tensions between the White House and Pope Leo, who has repeatedly criticized President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration. The president has aggressively hit back at the pope, even suggesting that the Vatican chose him as a response to Trump&#8217;s presidency — and that &#8220;they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican,&#8221; the president said in a fiery Truth Social post. Trump&#8217;s sentiment that Pope Leo was chosen to meet the second Trump administration, though generally considered to have been articulated too aggressively towards the head of the Catholic Church, is also widely held to be true.
The most recent bump in the road came in the form of Pope Leo&#8217;s appointment of a bishop to West Virginia: that bishop, <a href="http://t.co/mbCbdug0Fk">according to the Washington Post</a>, was illegally smuggled into the United States in the trunk of a car and has been vocal in his criticisms of the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration policies.
Things took a more hopeful turn of events when the pope downplayed reporter suggestions that he was warring with Trump, saying in late April that the &#8220;narrative that has not been accurate in all of its aspects&#8221; and that it was &#8220;not in my interest at all” to argue with Trump.
Vice President Vance took another step towards reconciliation with a social media post that praised the pope for his words: &#8220;I am grateful to Pope Leo for saying this. While the media narrative constantly gins up conflict — and yes, real disagreements have happened and will happen — the reality is often much more complicated.&#8221;
&#8220;Pope Leo preaches the gospel, as he should, and that will inevitably mean he offers his opinions on the moral issues of the day,&#8221; Vance added. &#8220;The President — and the entire administration — work to apply those moral principles in a messy world. He will be in our prayers, and I hope that we&#8217;ll be in his.&#8221;
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Last May, both Rubio and Vice President JD Vance attended the pope&#8217;s inauguration and spoke privately with him. Vance led the delegation to Rome during that trip, on which they also extended an invitation to Pope Leo from President Donald Trump inviting the pope to the White House. This time around, Vance is staying home and is heading out to Iowa on Tuesday to message for the Trump administration.
Both Vance and Rubio are practicing Catholics and considered top contenders for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination: Vance is currently leading that field by wide margins, though Rubio has notably gained in popularity and name recognition in recent months. Some critics of the vice president are now arguing, in light of the visit, that Vance is being &#8220;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/vance-loses-out-to-rubio-in-major-diplomatic-snub/?utm_campaign=owned_social&amp;utm_medium=socialflow&amp;utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&amp;via=twitter_page">sidelined</a>&#8221; from the conversations with Pope Leo.
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Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, doesn&#8217;t see it that way. Rubio&#8217;s meeting with the pope is just one &#8220;productive&#8221; step in what will hopefully be the healing of the relationship between the Holy Father and the White House, he suggested.
&#8220;I think ultimately it needs to be 3 people, but it&#8217;s very good that the Secretary of State is going,&#8221; he shared in a phone interview with The Daily Wire. Roberts, also a Catholic, stressed that the most important part of the dynamic is that Pope Leo and President Donald Trump meet and spend time together, &#8220;especially considering they&#8217;re both great leaders and great Americans.&#8221;
&#8220;In the meantime, I think the greatest tag team, for the conservative movement internationally, is Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So, no doubt, Rubio will have a great productive congenial visit with the Holy Father, and no doubt, at some point, the vice president will visit the Holy Father again, and no doubt, at some point, the president and Holy Father will visit again.&#8221;
Tensions escalated in early April when the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-infamous-meeting-between-the-vatican-and-the-pentagon?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Inside+The+Infamous+Meeting+Between+The+Vatican+And+The+Pentagon">Free Press published an &#8220;exposé&#8221; describing</a> a reportedly contentious January meeting between a Vatican diplomat and Pentagon officials. The report, citing unnamed sources, claimed that the Pentagon&#8217;s Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, then the Vatican’s Apostolic Nuncio, chastised him and insisted the United States “has the military power to do whatever it wants — and that the Church had better take its side.”
Notably, the story claimed that Colby invoked the Avignon Papacy, a period in the 14th century in which the Holy See moved from Rome to France, where a series of popes were largely bent to the will of the French monarchy. It also cast Colby as belonging to “a cadre of Catholic and ostensibly dovish officials” allied with Vice President JD Vance, who are “struggling to reconcile their isolationist instincts with the aggressive posture of a president who, within a single year, has bombed eight countries — with no sign of stopping.”
Allies of the vice president and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-fall-prey-to-claims-the-trump-administration-wants-to-bomb-the-vatican">some conservative commentators</a> took the story as a sign that Vance&#8217;s critics sought to ostracize Vance from Catholicism, just war, and Pope Leo himself. The Vatican, the Pentagon, and the American Ambassador to the Holy See all denied the Free Press report, saying it was cordial and respectful.
Michael Caputo, a longtime Catholic and advisor to President Donald Trump, reflected that both Vance and Rubio bring a different flavor of Catholicism to the table. Vance, a new convert, brings fresh perspective and evangelical zeal. Rubio was baptized Catholic as a baby, spent a few years in the LDS church in Las Vegas as a child, and returned to the Catholic Church by his early teens.
Caputo stumbled on Rubio&#8217;s memoir &#8220;American Son&#8221; during a particularly dark period when he was being targeted by the Biden DOJ, and he was incredibly impressed by Rubio&#8217;s reverence for the Catholic sacraments. That one specific chapter of &#8220;American Son&#8221; &#8220;drew me into my faith as Russia gate sucked my family in,&#8221; he shared.
&#8220;Marco and JD are two very different Catholics and Catholicism needs them both,&#8221; said Caputo. But he argued that it is &#8220;Marco Rubio’s deep and binding understanding of the sacraments and the role they played in connecting people to Christ&#8221; that &#8220;will make a difference as he comes to the Vatican.&#8221;
Rubio has cautioned respect for the Vatican, encouraging the public to see the office not as political but as spiritual.
&#8220;I understand there’s this temptation to cover the papacy as a political office,&#8221; Rubio <a href="https://www.state.gov/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-remarks-to-the-press-4">told reporters in May 2025</a> of the pope. &#8220;It is not a political office. It is a spiritual office, and it is one that – it has social teachings that are aligned with the faith and with the gospel.&#8221;
But he has also been unafraid to point out when the Vatican&#8217;s public posture on issues like immigration does not match its own actions.
&#8220;I don’t mean this to be snarky, but the Vatican has rules about who can come in and who can stay,&#8221; he noted that same day. &#8220;So every place has that. It’s just — it’s what you do to protect your sovereignty.&#8221;
Rubio was also formerly the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and has spent much of his career focused on that hemisphere — as has Pope Leo. Though the pope is from Chicago, he has been heavily focused on Latin America.
That means there is a &#8220;common language between the two men,&#8221; Caputo stressed, &#8220;a deep and abiding concern for the hemisphere,&#8221; a granular level of understanding of the region, and it makes Rubio the right guy for Pope Leo to be talking to.
The pope has repeatedly condemned the war with Iran, saying in late April aboard a flight back to Rome, &#8220;As a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war,&#8221; and &#8220;I would like to encourage everyone to make efforts to look for answers that come from a culture of peace and not from a place of hate and division.&#8221;
His previous remarks on the war in Iran prompted President Donald Trump to publicly scold him and accuse him of being &#8220;WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History.&#8221;
&#8220;I have no intention of getting into a debate,&#8221; Leo said in response in late April.
Catholics in the U.S. are also sensitive to the fact that the pope has said he has no plans to return to the United States to celebrate the country&#8217;s 250th anniversary.
&#8220;He has as much work to do as our friends who are public officials in the United States, in fact, I would strongly encourage him as a Roman Catholic and as an American, to visit the United States, his native country during America 250,&#8221; Roberts told The Daily Wire. &#8220;A lot of us conservative Catholics are slighted that the 1st American pope doesn&#8217;t have any plans to visit us this year.&#8221;

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Vice President JD Vance compared Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz to an &#8220;arsonist trying to claim credit for the work of the fire department&#8221; after Walz praised his administration&#8217;s role in a series of anti-fraud raids on daycares around Minneapolis earlier this week.
Vance told Fox News host Will Cain on Wednesday that the Trump administration &#8220;really did not get much help at all from the Governor&#8217;s office&#8221; despite Walz&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/GovTimWalz/status/2049153096358481927">claims</a> that state agencies helped initiate the investigation.
Walz said Tuesday that raids at nearly two dozen daycares and learning centers were conducted &#8220;by state and federal law enforcement &#8230; because our state agencies caught irregular behavior and reported it.&#8221;
Vance <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2049540492795240765">pushed back</a> sharply.
&#8220;This is like the arsonist trying to claim credit for the work of the fire department because Tim Walz let this fraud happen under his watch, whether he was complicit in it directly himself or just turned a blind eye towards it.&#8221;
&#8220;Where we did actually get some help was from some state and local law enforcement officers who we assigned to the federal task force because the state government wasn&#8217;t doing anything,&#8221; Vance added. &#8220;All credit goes to people on the ground: the state officers, the federal officers who are working to uncover this fraud.&#8221;
Vance, who was tapped by President Donald Trump in February to lead the administration&#8217;s crackdown on state-level fraud, <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2049586471967830054">said</a> that the White House&#8217;s anti-fraud task force has moved quickly to investigate suspected abuses, especially in Minnesota.
The probe gained national attention after independent journalist Nick Shirley posted videos in December raising questions about fraud tied to several Somali-run daycare and learning centers in the Twin Cities area.
&#8220;These investigations take a long time, so I was asking myself, &#8216;How quickly can we start getting into some real investigatory work, court-issued warrants, actually going door-to-door and finding out what&#8217;s going on?&#8217; People told me it would take at least six months,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve gone from Nick Shirley&#8217;s video about the Minneapolis fraud schemes to &#8230; judges issuing warrants for this investigation in a matter of three months.&#8221;
Vance added that the federal government&#8217;s anti-fraud task force includes 280 law enforcement officers looking into the issue.
&#8220;We really have the most accelerated, aggressive anti-fraud operation that we&#8217;ve ever seen from the federal government,&#8221; the vice president said, adding, &#8220;This is far from done, but we&#8217;re making a lot of good progress.&#8221;
Federal agents with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security executed search warrants Tuesday at 22 sites, primarily daycare and learning centers, many of which are Somali-owned. No arrests were made during the raids, though dozens of individuals have been charged with fraud in recent months as federal prosecutors uncovered a massive fraud scheme targeting numerous Minnesota state programs.
&#8220;The President&#8217;s War on Fraud is working, as the task force and the entire Trump administration continue to work tirelessly to expose Fraudsters who have scammed the American people out of billions of dollars,&#8221; a Vance spokesperson told The Daily Wire on background.
Walz, who ended his bid for a third term as governor in January amid scrutiny over the scandal, has defended his administration&#8217;s response, arguing that state officials properly flagged fraudulent activity.
In his final State of the State address on Tuesday night, Walz claimed that he has done more than Republican-led states to crack down on fraud.
&#8220;We’ve created additional checks and balances. We have brought on more investigators, more auditors, and more law enforcement agencies, as well as an outside firm to take a look at high-risk programs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People who have ripped us off are getting caught, and they are going to jail.&#8221;
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All hell seems like it&#8217;s about to break loose again in the Middle East.
Let’s review the timeline. The United States entered into a ceasefire with Iran. The idea was to open negotiations for two weeks and then move toward a solution on nuclear weapons, with Iran giving up its nukes, ballistic missiles, and support for terrorist proxies.
It seemed as though there was some pretty significant movement. The president deployed JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner to Islamabad, Pakistan. They came back and said there was no deal to be made.
Then it appeared as though there might be some movement after all, because the United States imposed a blockade on Iran&#8217;s blockade. Iran had basically put a blockade on goods in the Strait of Hormuz, harassing shipping and preventing oil from exiting the Persian Gulf.
But in the aftermath of the failed first round of talks, America blockaded Iranian ships entering and exiting the Strait of Hormuz.
That put the Iranian government in significant economic trouble, which led to backchannel negotiations. On Friday, both the United States government and the Iranian government announced that the Strait of Hormuz was open.
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President Trump said that a deal was very close, that Iran would ship its nuclear dust out, making a deal with the United States to permanently end their nuclear program, that they would stop supporting foreign terrorist organizations, etc.
This led to what appears to be a pretty open split between some of the negotiators and the people actually in charge, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is essentially the Praetorian guard for the mullahs. There have been a lot of rumors about the split. In fact, one of the reasons why the negotiations in Islamabad led by Vance didn&#8217;t succeed, according to Vance and members of the American side of the negotiations, was that the Foreign Ministry was making promises they couldn&#8217;t keep. They would go back, and the IRGC would then pretend that none of that ever happened.
Iran tried to tie its own ceasefire with the United States to Israel stopping its attacks on Hezbollah in retaliation for Hezbollah firing thousands of rockets into northern Israel. They tried to claim the reason that they had opened the Strait of Hormuz was because Israel had stopped its action in Lebanon, as opposed to the real reason, which is because the United States was blockading all of the oil going in and out of Iran.
On Saturday, things got heated again because the Iranian navy informed ships that Hormuz was shut.
President Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116433000897070863">noted</a>:
<blockquote>Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our Naval Blockade, and it did not go well for them. The U.S. Navy Guided Missile Destroyer USS SPRUANCE intercepted the TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman, and gave them fair warning to stop.
The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room. Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel. The TOUSKA is under U.S. Treasury Sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of the ship, and are seeing what’s on board!</blockquote>
What is likely to happen next is that Iran will remain intransigent. The president is likely to authorize further military action to both significantly hamper or destroy Iran&#8217;s economic capacity, and to either bomb every possible nuclear facility into complete rubble, unleash special operations in line with the Israelis, and go get the nuclear material, or both.
That is the most likely next step, and it will probably happen sooner rather than later if the Iranians do not get on the clock and start negotiating rapidly.

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