House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Congressman Brandon Gill discuss the launch of a new task force dedicated to investigating institutional abuses and Medicaid fraud. The focus begins with a multi-billion dollar fraud scheme in Ohio involving shell companies and unverified health services, with officials aiming to uncover similar systemic corruption across all 50 states.
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Billions more in Somalian fraud uncovered in Ohio.
When will this stop?
How much have the Somalians actually stolen from the American taxpayer?
And how did this go on so long?
Without anyone noticing, in any of the agencies,
our government is a total joke.
All we need is another committee that accomplishes nothing.
Congress is completely useless.
And justice needs to come to Americans in the form of a stimulus check,
just based on the billions of dollars stolen
by Somalians alone over the last 10 years.
All taxpayers' money that was supposed
to be guarded by our government officials.
officials how did that work out they need
to well no longer be paid until we're paid back
period yes they're gonna put some more people
to work uncovering more fraud that should have
never occurred in the first place let's hire some more idiots
to investigate just so nothing will
be done about it as usual that have been weaponized against
the american people and the work starts
today with a brand new investigation
into Medicaid fraud recently uncovered in Ohio.
Here now with all the details
are House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer
and the chairman of that new task force, Brandon Gill.
Gentlemen, great to see you both. Thank you both for joining.
Let me start with you, Congressman Comer.
Why do we need a subcommittee that does this?
Well, the full committee's been focused a lot on the deep state abuses,
like the one you mentioned in your last segment.
But what this new task force led by Congressman Gill
is going to be focused on institutional abuses, abuses with,
you know, obviously from government institutions as well
as politically connected nonprofits and many universities.
These are these are things that have flown under the radar.
We believe they violated the Constitution.
We believe that there have been many instances of discrimination,
and that's what this task force is going to be focused solely on.
And I think that there's not a better person in America
to lead this task force than Congressman Brandon Gill.
Well, Congressman Gill, you know, I love that your first mission
is to go after this Medicaid fraud in Ohio.
Another task force.
What a joke.
like a victimless crime or something like that.
It is not a victimless crime. It is
a very serious crime, and the people who always end up-
We're the victims, the U.S. taxpayer.
Nothing ever happens to Fathead here or any of the
rest of the Congress people.
They all need to have their salaries suspended indefinitely
until our money's paid back, period.
The true victims are the taxpayers and the people,
the rightful recipients of these funds.
That's exactly right. And the American people
are sick of seeing their tax dollars wasted
and seeing government organizations or nonprofit institutions,
colleges, businesses abuse the American people.
And that's what we're going after with this task task force.
What we found with this Ohio fraud scandal
is that we've got what we believe to be billions of dollars
that have been defrauded from American taxpayers
that should have been going to benefit the American people.
And instead, we're being laundered through
a wide variety of shell companies that were still acting
as intermediaries to facilitate payments to organizations
that weren't providing any type of health care.
ostensibly this was going towards companionship
services where we can't even verify that the
services were actually provided,
where there was no verification that the people providing these
services were actually had any medical training whatsoever.
And there were no caps on the spending
for these programs. And again, this is billions of dollars.
And this is what the American people
are sick of and what we're going to work and work hard
and diligently to put an end to with this
task force congressman comer what are some
of the other areas uh that you in your experience
investigating these things where um that will
be ripe for this committee or subcommittee well
obviously we want to focus like a laser
on on fraud we believe that when you talk about health
care which is an issue the democrats are trying
to make as their issue in in the election uh they
they want to cite changes made
and reforms made in the big beautiful bill we are making reforms
to try to put guardrails on this spending.
The American people are going to be outraged.
They're outraged what they've seen
in Minneapolis with the Somali fraud.
They're outraged what they've seen in Los
Angeles County with the hospice fraud.
And now what I think you're going to see with Brendan Gill uncover
is fraud in all 50 states with respect to the Medicaid program.
Under the guise of minority contracts,
under the guise of new programs
the Democrats want to start with no guardrails,
there's no accountability, there's been no auditing.
and the american people realize that they see it every day
and they're going to see it even more
after this task force gets started it's going
to allow us to be able to make the the
needed reforms in congress to save taxpayer dollars
and that's what the american people want
yeah you know what that should have been done long ago
y'all should be acting like adults
and stewards of our tax dollars you all need to lose your positions
and go try to run a lemonade
stand see if you can well manage to not embezzle
that money congressman gill what has been the
reaction among your colleagues
when i know that you're just starting the subcommittee but what
has been the reaction from your democrat colleagues uh
when you ask uh good questions about some of
this fraud? Well, what Republicans are doing
are fighting to make sure that American tax dollars
are being spent wisely.
What Democrats want to do is weaponize the federal government and state
governments and agencies to launder tax dollars
to give to their political allies to effectively
buy off votes. That's what we saw in Minnesota.
And what it seems to be we could we could be
finding in certain parts in Ohio
and other states across the country as well. What we're doing is
were taking away one of the key arms
that the Democrat Party apparatus has used in order to
win elections, in order to win over people.
It's wildly, just flagrantly corrupt. And again,
this is what the American people are sick of.
Whenever you pay your taxes every single year,
you want to make sure that your money is actually going
to programs that benefit the American people,
not programs that benefit explicitly the Democrat Party.
It turns out that a trillion-dollar federal budget is a very effective
way to get yourself reelected, and Democrats have figured that out.
Congressman Gill, thank you both so much, and good luck to you.
Yeah, we're going to need it with you guys at the helm.
Here we go, another task force, and they expect to uncover hundreds
of billions of more dollars in fraud in all 50 states.
And I'm 100% sure they're right.
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