A handful of federal programs haven’t been doing enough to protect against fraud, according to a new Government Accountability Office audit that follows reports that DOGE’s pledge to root out ...

The cost to taxpayers identified by Vice President JD Vance's task for targeting government benefit programs is mounting, and ...

“Fraud, waste and abuse” in government programs is the Republican mantra. We’ve heard it hundreds of times, but haven’t been shown much evidence of any of these. The fact is, Trump and ...

Federal healthcare fraud crackdown intensifies with CMS withholding billions in Medicaid funds from states like Minnesota and California in 2026.

Healthcare spending represents nearly $5 trillion of the United States economy, making it a prime target for scammers. Meanwhile, surging national medical costs and increasingly sophisticated attacks ...

My Administration has been relentlessly committed to rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in Government programs to preserve and protect them for those who rely most on them. The Medicaid program ...

The legislation includes some provisions that can improve the detection of beneficiaries who aren’t eligible for Medicaid coverage. However, the bill also cuts reimbursements for states that cover ...

Highly touted efforts to cut health care spending, such as the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ignore the real sources of waste, fraud, and abuse such as Medicare Advantage ...

When President Donald Trump finds a phrase that he likes, he sticks with it. “Fake news,” “drill, baby, drill,” “witch hunt” — he’s sometimes a walking karaoke machine playing his own greatest hits.

The HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) called out sky-high spending on pricey skin substitutes and voiced concerns about potential waste, fraud, and abuse in a report released earlier ...

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