Vice President J.D. Vance wanted the message out that he meant business.

Vance knew there was only one way to make sure everyone understood loud and clear.

And J.D. Vance took the gloves off with this ultimatum that hit Democrats where it hurts.

President Trump named Vice President Vance as the head of an anti-fraud task force.

Elon Musk estimated that 20% of the federal budget is wasted on fraud.

Somali migrants in Minnesota bilked taxpayers out of $9 billion in a Medicare scam.

Journalist Nick Shirley uncovered another $110,000,000 in fraud linked to Somali-run childcare centers in Minneapolis.

Republicans contend that blue states think they can get away with looking the other way on this fraud as part of a scheme to buy votes for Democrats.

Vance wanted to put every state in America on notice that the government was cracking down on fraud.

Thomas Bell, inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services, sent a letter to all 50 states informing them that the Trump administration would turn off all Medicaid funding unless they enforced anti-fraud statutes.

“This means your failure to do your job has put all of your state’s Medicaid funds in jeopardy,” Bell’s letter reads. 

During a White House event, Vance made it clear this was no idle threat by announcing the White House was suspending $1.3 billion in Medicaid funding because Governor Gavin Newsom allowed fraud to run rampant.

“First, we’re announcing that the federal government is deferring $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from the state of California, and the simple reason is that the state of California has not taken fraud very seriously,” Vance stated.

Vance explained that taxpayers are footing the bill for fraudulent prescriptions and that it was time to put a stop to this scheme.

“So there are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn’t taking its program seriously,” Vance added. “But also, you have people who have been prescribed medications that they don’t even need. Sometimes they’ve had drugs put into their bodies that they don’t need because fraudsters have actually encouraged false prescriptions and false administration of medications.” 

“So think about this. You’re the person trying to see a doctor. You assume that your doctor is doing the right thing, but these fraudulent health care providers are getting rich by giving people medications they don’t even need. It’s a defrauding of the American taxpayer,” Vance continued. “But it’s a violation of the trust that should exist between every American and the people who prescribe the medications. That’s one thing that…we’re targeting, and this is why we’re taking this action, because we want California to get serious about this fraud.” 

Vance then explained that this threat was necessary because blue states like Hawaii and New York refused to prosecute fraud.

“Guess how many convictions or indictments Hawaii has had over the last few years in its Medicaid fraud program. The answer is zero—not a single indictment, not a single conviction,” Vance stated.

“New York has had nine indictments over the last year, nine indictments,” Vance went on to say. “That’s a $100 billion Medicaid program just in New York, and you’ve had nine indictments. Indiana, which has about a third of the population of the state of New York, has had more than four times as many indictments over the same period.” 

America is $39 trillion in debt.

J.D. Vance is leading the charge to set America’s fiscal house in order by targeting the 20% of the $7/4 trillion federal budget looted by fraudsters.

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