President Trump announced during the SOTU last night that Vice President JD Vance will be leading a “whole of government” effort to clean up fraud, especially in blue states led by Democrats like Minnesota.
Today, the vice president and administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Mehmet Oz, spoke at a press conference about the effort.
VP Vance began by saying there will be a pause in federal payments to Minnesota for Medicaid until the state officials take fraud seriously:
🚨 @VP: “We have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligation seriously to be good stewards of the American people’s tax money.” pic.twitter.com/XD0JMA5p3w
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 25, 2026
Vance and Oz are a great team, both capable and principled.
Vance was assigned, of course, because Bondi will not act.
It is a similar situation to Trump assigning Tulsi to investigate the 2020 election crimes and other things.
In both cases, and in other cases, responsibility to investigate is Bondi’s.
Comer is fed up with her also.
What took so long ?
The DoJ is not willing to act, like on everything else.
(Tulsi gave Bondi solid criminal evidence on 2020 election crimes 3 months ago, with no action. Comer complained Bondi has a huge stack of criminal referrals on her desk she is not acting on. Bondi is clearly not an ally.)