White House Urges State AGs to Target, Punish Medicaid Fraudsters
Democratic attorneys general said they were invited with less than one business day’s notice and planned a separate press conference.
- On Tuesday, 24 Democratic state attorneys general declined Vice President JD Vance's invitation to an anti-fraud roundtable at the White House, citing they received the invitation Friday with a Saturday deadline, days after Republican counterparts were invited.
- The event was originally planned exclusively for Republican AGs, but Vance personally suggested Democratic participation would be valuable; Trump appointed Vance as 'fraud czar' in April with investigations centered on Democrat-run states.
- Democratic AGs wrote Vance that the social safety net is 'critical, especially given today's affordability crisis,' while Vance claimed the task force in two months referred over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans to the Treasury and deferred more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements from California.
- About 15 Republican attorneys general attended alongside Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson and White House adviser Stephen Miller, while Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison declined; Democratic AGs scheduled a press conference two hours after the roundtable began.
- White House documentation cited alleged fraud cases in Minnesota and California but no Republican-led states, as federal prosecutors estimate Medicaid fraud in Minnesota could total in the billions, with nearly 9 percent of roughly $866 million spent annually on food stamps estimated as error.
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Democratic state AGs say their staff excluded from Vance anti-fraud meeting
Vice President JD Vance, center, arrives at a roundtable anti-fraud meeting with Republican attorneys general in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus on May 26, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A handful of Democratic state attorneys general said Tuesday that expert officials from their offices were denied access to a major White House anti-fraud meeting convened by Vice Pre…
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