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Medicaid Overpayments

What is the overpayment rate of the Medicaid program?

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Medicaid is the federal government’s primary healthcare program for low-income people. According to federal estimates, Medicaid averaged $42 billion in overpayments per year from 2015 to 2024, which was 10% of the program’s outlays. Per the U.S. Government Accountability Office, “Once fraudulent or improper payments are made, the government is likely to only recover pennies on the dollar.” Since Medicaid was founded in 1965, the portion of the U.S. population receiving Medicaid benefits for the entire year has increased from 2% in 1966 to 26% in 2024.

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Subverting Elections

U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D–CA) claims that the Trump administration’s “Department of Injustice” is “actively seeking to subvert our elections.”

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IN FACT, Trump’s DOJ is actively preventing fraud and other crimes that have subverted prior elections. Here are the specifics:

In March 2025, President Trump issued an executive order to achieve “free, fair, and honest elections unmarred” by “illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error.”
The DOJ has taken numerous actions to achieve those objectives, such as pressing states to clean their voter rolls of non-citizens, dead people, and others who are ineligible to vote, like a dead dog in Virginia.
The DOJ is also prosecuting such crimes and just announced “charges involving 63 individuals, including four illegal aliens, in connection with illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration, and related election crimes.”
The DOJ has also sued Alaskan officials for permitting a scheme to trick citizens into voting for someone they don’t intend to vote for by running a candidate with the same name as the incumbent U.S. Senator, Republican Dan Sullivan.
A study in the scholarly journal Electoral Studies found that illegal votes cast by non-citizens “likely” overturned the “pivotal” 2008 U.S. Senate race that “gave Democrats the filibuster-proof super-majority needed to pass major legislative initiatives,” including Obamacare.
Scientific surveys conducted in 2008, 2012, and 2022 combined with voter registration records found that roughly 1.0 million to 2.7 million non-citizens illegally vote in presidential elections, and repeated attempts to dispute these facts all failed to produce a single legitimate objection.
The 2000 presidential election was decided by a margin of 537 votes in Florida, the 2008 U.S. Senate election in Minnesota was decided by a margin of 312 votes, the 2004 Washington State gubernatorial election was decided by a margin of 129 votes, the 2020 election for Iowa’s second U.S. Congressional district was decided by a margin of 6 votes, and the 2017 election that decided control of Virginia’s legislature was decided by a margin of 1 vote.
Every illegal vote nullifies the vote of a citizen, thereby subverting their Constitutional right to vote and potentially changing the course of the nation.

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