JD Vance's Explosive Fraud Crackdown Is About to Make Some Blue-State Governors Very Nervous

Ben Smith : May 14, 2026
RedState

[RedState.com] Vice President JD Vance took the podium Wednesday afternoon, and dropped the biggest anti-fraud announcement of the Trump administration yet. A $1.34 billion Medicaid deferral against California. A nationwide moratorium on new hospice and home health licenses. A first-ever Medicaid War Room. And a 50-state ultimatum: prove you are prosecuting fraud, or lose your federal, anti-fraud funding. As my colleague Ward Clark reported earlier on Wednesday, the task force has (so far) accomplished a $1.4 billion suspension of fraudulent hospice and home health operators ... "...This is just basic good government [...] We want to protect Medicaid. We want to protect Medicare. But we can't do that if the states that are administering those programs are allowing those programs to be fleeced by fraudsters. So we encourage—whether it's California or New York or Maryland or Ohio—we encourage people to work with us."... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via Fox News)