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Despite that President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted he will not touch Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, Democrats continue to promote claims that Trump is going to cut these programs and hurt needy Americans.
Instead Trump has clarified that his administration will be going after the FRAUD associated with these programs.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) just highlighted some examples of the fraud that has been found in a post on X this week.
The post also points to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) fraud risk management report from April 2024, which states, “2018-2022 data show federal government loses an estimated $233 billion to $521 billion annually to fraud.”
YES, the Trump administration intends to cut Medicare and Social Security… when it includes FRAUD. So when Democrats are screeching about Trump cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, THIS is what they are wanting to allow to continue.
See the jaw-dropping examples of fraud below as reported by DOGE:
Examples of observed improper payments below. This is likely being done at scale.
– After an order for expedited deportation was issued in 2017, a migrant from Honduras used three different SSNs to submit 73 medicare claims totaling $48k.
– Medicare paid $49k for a Rehab Center for a person recorded dead for over a year.
– Medicare paid $57k in 2020 for a person recorded to have died in 2006.
– After a warrant for her arrest was issued in 2019, a migrant from Colombia received 3 SBA loans for $100k (over $99k was forgiven).
– Migrant from Peru received social security payments since at least 2007, with all benefit checks being mailed directly to Peru.
GAO report estimates $233B – $521B annually in fraudhttps://t.co/T2GkqIwvV1
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 4, 2025
One X user suggested, “Bookmark this post. Save it to send to the next person who says or posts “Trump is going to get rid of Medicaid, and Social Security.” Is cutting out fraud and persecuting people who do it considered wrong?”
Bookmark this post. Save it to send to the next person who says or posts “Trump is going to get rid of Medicaid, and Social Security”
Is cutting out fraud and persecuting people who do it considered wrong?
— Gail Alfar (@GailAlfarATX) March 4, 2025
Another X user pointed to a February 2024 report by the Dallas Morning News, which reads:
Between 2006 and 2012, federal law enforcement authorities allege more than 230 Dallas-area home health care agencies funneled patients to Arlington physician Joseph Megwa to approve $100.5 million in care they didn’t need. The owner of the largest home care agency in the case, Nigerian-American Ferguson Ikhile of Irving, has pleaded guilty.
X user ‘Crazy Moments’ wrote:
Some $475,000,000 of Medicare fraud was traced to members of the African Immigrant Community in Dallas in the 2000s. One particularly repugnant practice involved recruiting Medicare beneficiaries from homeless shelters for $50 & billing the homeless for in-home skilled-nursing health care.
Medicare requires a credentialed Nurse to provide this Home Health Care… Are you starting to understand the scope of this fraud?
Fake refugees, fake nursing schools, fake nurses, fake healthcare businesses, fake health care services, fake doctors.
All created & funded by the incompetence or malice of the Federal government.
All to the great harm of America as a sovereign nation. Never mind the great personal harm to countless individual American citizens victimized.
Some $475,000,000 of Medicare fraud was traced to members of the African Immigrant Community in Dallas in the 2000s. One particularly repugnant practice involved recruiting Medicare beneficiaries from homeless shelters for $50 & billing the homeless for in-home skilled-nursing… pic.twitter.com/LWYLEX6i5v
— Crazy Moments (@Crazymoments01) March 4, 2025
Dallas Doctor and Three Dallas-Area Home Health Agency Owners Convicted for Running Large-Scale, Sophisticated He… https://t.co/IO57IZFkbK
— FBI Dallas (@FBIDallas) April 14, 2016
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