Medicaid and Social Services Fraud

President Trump says the media is overfocusing on ICE raids in Minnesota and underreporting what he calls a massive fraud scandal — repeating an $18 billion figure, linking alleged abuses to Minnesota’s Somali community and urging that the case be a template for probes in other states. Federal authorities have charged about 78 people in the Feeding Our Future child‑nutrition scheme (with more than 60 convictions or guilty pleas), noted meal‑claim growth from $3.4 million in 2019 to nearly $200 million in 2021, and prosecutors estimate up to $9 billion in broader social‑services fraud; the response has included CMS Medicaid audits and clawbacks, DHS worksite enforcement and a 30‑day HSI surge, DOJ prosecutorial deployments, a House Oversight hearing and federal funding freezes — actions critics warn risk stigmatizing the Somali community.