Enrollment in Obamacare exploded during Joe Biden’s time in office, swelling from about 12 million people when Trump’s first term ended to 24 million at the end of 2024.
becomes a dollar saved.” Enrollment in Obamacare exploded
serve the most vulnerable Americans — not be an open tab for fraud and abuse,” the Texas Republican said. “This is exactly why Republicans
fought for stronger financial safeguards in the One Big Beautiful Bill.” Arrington said the Biden administra-
tion left behind a mess due to its “enroll first, ask questions later” approach to get people on government-sponsored healthcare programs. “I’m encouraged to see CMS moving
fast to fix this problem — but make no mistake: This is just the tip of the ice- berg when it comes to waste, fraud, and abuse in our government,” Arrington said. “House Republicans will keep pressing until every dollar wasted
As part of her proposal,
Bondi said an online portal will be established, allowing people to submit a restoration request digitally or by mail. Bondi responded to Trump’s
order in March by stripping away from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) the responsibility of processing requests from felons to have their gun rights restored.
The ability to restore gun
rights has taken a circuitous path through the years that started with the 1968 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act. Initially, the secretary of
the Treasury was allowed to restore those rights to someone convicted of a crime punishable
during Joe Biden’s time in office, swell- ing from about 12 million people when Trump’s first term ended to 24 million at the end of 2024. Along with ending the safeguards
against dual enrollment, the Biden administration sweetened Obamacare subsidies, which drove federal spend- ing on the healthcare program from about $57 billion under Trump to more than $125 billion at the end of last year, according to a report from the Congres- sional Budget Office. Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said the federal government will work with states to continue find- ing dual enrollments while simultane- ously minimizing losses in coverage. Oz said the first task is to work with
states to create a list of those enrolled in more than one state, and check each
by less than a year in prison, excluding violations of the National Firearms Act. Over the years, the Treasury
Department transferred that to the attorney general, allowing that ofice to restore rights for “any person” prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition. Then in 1975, the Treasury
Department created what was a forerunner of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the ability to restore rights stayed there for several decades. In the early 1990s, however, Congress determined that too many ATF resources were being used to adjudicate restoration requests — saying at the time that approximately 40
person’s eligibility to ensure no one loses coverage. The second is to offer those enrolled
in Medicaid or CHIP as well as a fed- erally subsidized exchange through Obamacare the chance to: Disenroll from Medicaid or CHIP if
no longer eligible. End their subsidy with an option to
end their coverage. Notify the exchange that the data is incorrect and submit supporting docu- mentation. The subsidy will be terminated after
30 days for those who still appear to be enrolled in both. “This ends today,” Oz said. “CMS is restarting these impor- tant checks to follow federal law. We are going to work with states to iden- tify individuals enrolled in multiple pro- grams, and fix the duplicate enrollment problem to save taxpayers billions of dollars while minimizing inappropriate coverage loss.”
man-years had been spent on the process — and argued those resources would be better spent cracking down on violent crime. In 2002, after Congress
passed the Homeland Security Act and the ATF was moved under the newly created Department of Homeland Security, restoration authority went back to the attorney general’s ofice, which then delegated it back to ATF. Advocates for lifting the
ban on convicted felons say the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen decision — the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that struck down a New York law that required a special need to obtain a conceal carry permit —
helped put rights restoration in motion. Bruen built on previous rulings which held that the Second and 14th Amendments protect an individual’s right to keep and bear arms for self- defense. “This is a line you’re seeing
the Supreme Court increasingly start to draw,” Amy Swearer, a senior legal fellow with The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, told Newsmax in March.
“I think when you break it
down for people, they see the distinction between violent and nonviolent people,” she said. “Historically, as a nation, we understand that.”
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