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RFK Jr. Launches $14 Billion Healthcare Fraud Crackdown


Government is paying multiple times for people illegally enrolled in more than one program.


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he trump administration is launching a $14 billion crackdown on waste and duplication in Medicare,


Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Health and Human Services Sec-


retary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his office will begin efforts to halt rampant waste, fraud, and abuse. Kennedy said the passage in July


of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill has given his department


the tools “to strengthen these vital pro- grams for generations to come.” A recent review by the Centers for


Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed that nearly 3 million people were either enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP in multiple states, or simultane- ously enrolled in both Medicaid/CHIP and a subsidized Affordable Care Act Exchange plan. Kennedy said the government is pay-


ing multiple times for people enrolled in more than one healthcare program. His department found that in 2024, an average of 1.2 million people each month were enrolled in CHIP in two or more states, which isn’t allowed under federal rules. The review also determined that an average of 1.6 million people each


Nonviolent Felons to BY VAN CHARLES


ttorney General Pam Bondi is planning a new rule to


allow nonviolent felons to have their gun rights restored. The rule would allow those


with firearms restrictions to acquire, receive, transfer, ship, or transport firearms, according to a summary of the proposal seen by Newsmax. Bondi said those criteria are designed to ensure “the


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fundamental right of the people to keep and bear arms is not infringed,” providing those asking to have that right restored “are not likely to act in a manner dangerous to public safety” and that doing so would be in the public interest. “President Donald Trump


directed the Department of Justice to address the ongoing infringements of the Second Amendment rights of our


month were enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP along with Obamacare, which also isn’t allowed. The healthcare programs are


required by federal statute to be exam- ined at least once a year to guard against improper enrollments through a process called Medicaid periodic data matching. The requirement was halted by


the Biden administration during the COVID-19 pandemic, but never rein- stated through the end of his term. House Budget Committee Chair


Jodey Arrington hailed Kennedy’s announcement, saying results like this are a byproduct of Trump’s megabill. “Our healthcare safety nets should


Get Gun Rights Restored Attorney general says new rule will ensure fundamental right of people to bear arms.


citizens — all of them,” Bondi said.


“For too long, countless


Americans with criminal histories have been permanently disenfranchised from exercising the right to keep and bear arms — a right every bit as constitutionally enshrined as the right to vote, the right to free speech, and the right to free exercise of religion — irrespective of whether


they actually pose a threat. No longer.” Bondi noted that not all


convicted felons would be eligible to have their rights restored, saying existing law will still prevent “dangerous criminals” from legally possessing firearms. She said discretion will be used on a case-by-case basis based on the evidence, but absent “extraordinary circumstances,” violent felons, registered sex offenders, and illegal aliens will not be eligible. Trump started the process


in February when he signed an executive order that gave Bondi 30 days to examine all orders and agency policies that infringe on Second Amendment rights.


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