00:00:00.000Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.
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00:00:18.600I hope you all had a good week, and you are ready for the weekend as much as I am.
00:00:23.620But first, let's get into some big news.
00:00:25.560In a massive long overdue on crackdown on government waste and rampant abuse, the Department of Health and Human Services has officially put all 50 states on notice tonight, folks.
00:00:37.040The largest, the largest scale audit is about to happen.
00:00:44.600And now we'll audit all 50 American states looking for potentially massive fraud in the billing of autism treatment.
00:00:54.500This is happening now amid a recent explosion in spending on autism services.
00:00:58.520North Carolina alone apparently saw an 11,000 percent increase in the last four years.
00:01:06.280Why was that? Good question for Alexandria Hoff, live in D.C.
00:01:12.140Hey, Bill. Yeah, it is a good question, because according to that data coming out of North Carolina,
00:01:15.900the use of taxpayer funded autism services is significantly outpacing the number of children being diagnosed.
00:01:22.300So something's not right there, and it's not just in the Tar Heel state.
00:01:25.700A recent analysis by the Cato Institute found that in five years, Medicaid billing has surged in every other state that makes their data public for money spent on ABA therapy.
00:01:46.000President Trump spoke on that yesterday.
00:01:47.500You saw that with millions of dollars just being stolen. Everybody had autism. Everybody had autism. They said it was incredible, actually. And I really, I mean, I've just seen somebody see what they're doing. You haven't seen anything yet.
00:02:07.740You know, it's not necessarily malice everywhere that hasn't been proven yet.
00:02:11.880ABA therapy is considered a critical resource for children diagnosed with autism,
00:02:15.660but given its complicated billing structure, incentive to overbill,
00:02:19.860an influx of private equity-backed providers into that space,
00:02:23.360it's really being looked at like a gold rush.
00:02:26.100Audits so far by HHS's Office of Inspector General has uncovered $198 million in improper payments
00:02:32.180made in just four states, $410 million incorrectly billed.
00:02:36.700And examining this really depends on each state's ability to organize and analyze its own spending.
00:02:41.960That's why HHS is now deploying AI tools to double check that oversight and try to root out any possible fraud bill.
00:02:48.600Okay. Can you imagine there's people out there who are exploiting autistic kids and pulling money from funds delegated for autistic kids?
00:03:00.240Now, I have friends who, you know, I've met through the years who I've worked with who have been on the spectrum.
00:03:08.240As a matter of fact, when we launched the Lou Dobbs shop back in 2019 or 2020, whatever year it was,
00:03:15.420we used a provider here in America, in New York, that employed autistic adults, middle-aged people,
00:05:24.300Toys R Us was one of the institutions that they destroyed.
00:05:26.960Veterinary practices is another one that they're going to go ahead and destroy.
00:05:32.820HVAC companies, plumbing companies, they're trying to buy up everything and raise the rates through the roof that are just unaffordable for people.
00:05:39.060So our war on private equity is just beginning.
00:05:41.220And I promise you, it's one that that I'm going to fall on the shore for because I've had enough of it and they're going to destroy America and they're going to ruin just about everything there is to touch.
00:05:54.000So we find out now that private equity after I'm done with this little rant, but we find out now that private equity, of course, is involved in this.
00:06:01.660now there's previously reported that a federal hhs officer of inspector general you had heard
00:06:07.520uh the mention there and an audit in cal in colorado california's another one made at least
00:06:14.22078 million dollars in a proper fee for service and medicare payments for this applied behavior
00:06:20.380analysis the aba therapy for children diagnosed with autism from 2022 to 2023 alone every single
00:06:27.740of the 100 sampled enrolled months contained at least one improper or potential improper claim.
00:06:34.680Auditors flagged another $207 million in potentially improper payments.
00:06:39.440Similar horrors hit the state of Wisconsin, over $18 million improper. Indiana and Maine
00:06:45.440confirmed improper payments across audited state lines, totaling nearly $200 million.
00:06:51.340It's roughly 31% of spending reviewed in those samples, folks.
00:06:54.680now the department of homeland securities h h hsi division arrested two muslim women in0.99
00:07:02.660minnesota this week you saw them for defrauding american taxpayers of more than 21 million dollars0.86
00:07:08.360through a brazen scheme targeting the state's autism service program0.94
00:07:12.140now there's a special place in hell for these people folks there's a special place in hell
00:07:20.220for all of these people who are looking to not just defraud the government to defraud services
00:07:27.000like this for people who actually need it now because of this the feds are going nationwide
00:07:34.980cms has issued a direct call to 50 states to re-evaluate their high-risk aba providers
00:07:40.860to remove illegitimate ones and report back with plans to clean house states have tight deadlines
00:07:47.56010 business days to respond and 30 days for a full strategy for what's going on in these businesses and for their numbers.
00:07:58.320Now, this all comes alongside something called the ARO initiative, Audit Enforcement and Risk Oversight,
00:08:05.220which is using AI, as you heard Bill Hemmer say there, an aggressive follow up to finally hold states accountable for years of ignored audits
00:08:11.440and failures of chronic noncompliance across HHS programs.
00:08:16.180Now, I'd argue it should go a little bit further than that because what was it?
00:09:15.800Minnesota, of course, saw one of the most grotesque spikes from under 700,000 in 2018 to nearly 350 million by 2024 in their EIDBI autism program.0.73
00:09:35.280Like I said, folks, there's a special place in hell for these people.
00:12:49.860Linda at the Department of Education has been1.00
00:12:51.460amazing at finding student loan fraud. You've got
00:12:53.480people who are either illegal aliens or aren't even actually real human beings, who are getting
00:12:58.760hundreds of millions of dollars from the Department of Education for student loans. We have cut that0.98
00:13:03.640off. We found a lot. We're going to find a lot more. Scott at HUD has been amazing, because a
00:13:08.440lot of the fraud that we see is housing fraud, people claiming benefits that they're not entitled
00:13:12.180to or against, or sometimes completely made-up people who exist purely to collect fraudulent
00:13:18.940money from the American taxpayer. Brooke at the Department of Agriculture, something I had no
00:13:23.240idea until I started this work, sir, that we send hundreds of billions of dollars to the states to
00:13:28.660administer the food stamp program. The federal government has no insight into whether those
00:13:34.040food stamps are going to people who are legally entitled or whether those people actually even
00:13:38.340exist. And so we're working on a number of mechanisms to actually force the states to
00:13:43.120verify that the people who receive these benefits are actually entitled to them. And I can go down
00:13:48.160the list, I've gotten a lot of support from a lot of people in this room. Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Oz
00:13:54.480have been particular all-stars on this, and Kim at HNHS. What they've done with the Medicaid fraud,
00:14:00.920we found tens of billions of dollars in Medicaid and Medicare fraud just from their hard work.
00:14:05.460We've cut that off. And yes, Mr. President, we're going to find a lot more. The final thing I want
00:14:09.960to say, Mr. President, and I know that Todd maybe has something to say about this as well,
00:14:15.200But I always try to remind the American people and certainly remind the cabinet officials.
00:14:19.440By the way, Kelly at SBA has found tens of billions of dollars that were from fraudulent loans that were giving under the Biden administration.
00:14:26.000And we've now cut that off and recovered a lot of that money.
00:14:28.580So this has been a whole of government effort, Mr. President.
00:14:31.400The team really deserves a great deal of credit here.
00:14:33.340But the final point I want to make, sir, is I always try to remind the American people that fraud is fundamentally a crime with two victims.
00:14:39.800The most obvious victim are the American taxpayer.
00:14:43.720They expect the money to go where it should go, and that's not happening because of the fraudsters.
00:14:48.500But there are also victims, people who benefit from these programs that don't exist if we're not actually taking care of the fraud issue.
00:14:56.800And let me just give one example to build on something you said earlier, sir.
00:14:59.960One of the people that Todd just prosecuted was a person who was collecting a lot of money from the American taxpayer to take care of elderly citizens.
00:15:08.120People who worked their entire lives, paid their taxes, should have had dignity and nobility in old age, but it was deprived from them from fraudsters who say that they're taking care of them, who collect a check to take care of them, but then abuse and neglect these people.
00:15:22.500And particularly one man who died because he wasn't getting adequate care, and that guy was still collecting benefits to take care of a person who he had completely neglected.
00:15:32.860So not only do you have an American taxpayer who's paying into these programs, you have an elderly citizen deprived of his dignity because we're not going after the fraudsters.
00:19:06.280We had a $1 billion fraud, a conviction at trial last week out of Florida.
00:19:12.540And this was an organization that was stealing from senior citizens in Florida, duping them.
00:19:17.800There were call centers set up in the Philippines, and they were duping them to buy medical equipment that they didn't need, that they would never get, and that the taxpayers paid for.0.99
00:21:19.960thanks everybody for staying with us here on the great america show as always we're live so
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00:21:34.440hate tonight's show or whatever so scott besant was uh press secretary today and boy was it fun
00:21:41.160because he sent the marxist dams into a downward spiral that0.67
00:21:45.040But it's absolutely just amazing any time it happens.
00:21:50.780But Besson today unveiled the new $250 bill with President Trump's face on it.
00:21:58.140Making preparations to begin printing this $250 bill with President Trump's face, pending, of course, congressional approval.
00:22:04.020Now, it comes after the Washington Post claiming President Trump and his administration officials are pressuring the Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing Design to get out this $250 bill featuring President Trump's portrait.
00:22:18.720Legislation that would allow Trump to appear on a $250 bill was introduced in Congress last year to commemorate the nation's 250th anniversary.
00:22:29.100But languished, says the reporters at the Washington Post.
00:22:34.020And Scott Besson had some fun with them when he was asked by him.
00:22:50.720So basically what it says is that Treasury is following the law and that we've created the bill and that it's up to Congress, but that we follow the bill and it's up to.
00:23:01.200I didn't really understand what the story was.
00:23:02.800So do you think the appointees aren't involved in that, two of your political appointees?
00:23:59.280that was caitlin collins uh by the way or as i like to call him uh dylan mulvaney you know
00:24:06.740it's no secret gas prices are higher right now due to many factors including the war in iran
00:24:13.320price gouging and it needs to be cleared up for sure we want gas prices back down0.96
00:24:20.760But none of these idiots, Collins and the rest of them, had anything to say for four years under Joe Biden when Joe Biden literally brought gas prices to the maximum level on purpose when he killed any new lease and any existing lease to drill here in America.0.99
00:24:45.120or when they killed like a million chickens to drive up the egg prices1.00
00:24:50.100because of an outbreak that was contained.
00:24:54.660Nobody had anything to say about that.1.00
00:24:56.940Caitlin Collins wasn't out there bitching and moaning then,
00:25:00.100or she wasn't out there bitching and moaning when Jerome Powell tried to save1.00
00:25:05.660Kamala Harris's doomed presidency in September of 241.00
00:25:12.780when he cut rates for absolutely no reason
00:26:48.260They're getting absolutely killed, and they deserve to.0.97
00:26:52.120They are literally the enemy of the people.0.99
00:26:54.460So they deserve every little bit that they're going to get.1.00
00:26:58.460So Scott Besson was also asked today, Gavin Newsom, the idiot who thinks he's going to run for president, who can't manage his water supply in the beautiful state of California.0.91
00:27:07.740By the way, we're going to be in California, I think, in two weeks to meet with Spencer Pratt, maybe have some fun there and do an episode with him, pick his brain a little bit, pulling for him in that race in California for sure.0.57
00:27:23.720But anyway, so Besson was asked today as press secretary, Gavin Newsom wants to put 100% tax on anyone in California who gets a January 6th payment from this over billion dollar settlement that the Trump administration negotiated. Take a listen.
00:27:41.020Governor Gavin Newsom has floated this idea of a 100% state tax on Californians who receive money from President Trump's anti-weaponization fund. Your response to the governor's call for 100%.
00:32:47.320There's so many things that have happened over this country that have just gone by the wayside and been swept under the rug by lowlifes with no repercussions.1.00
00:32:58.360And, you know, as I said before, if you get away with it, you're going to continue to do it.0.89
00:33:06.600And it's the same thing with these Marxist Dems.
00:33:08.780It's the same thing with these fraudsters until they start paying the price.
00:33:14.940As my dad used to say to me, because I was a, you know, you guys couldn't figure it out.
00:33:38.240but it's the mistakes that you learn from and how you change to move ahead.
00:33:42.820That makes you who you are and makes your path ahead. So I say,
00:33:48.440it's never too late for anybody to turn it around.
00:33:51.060So that is all for us tonight, folks here on the great America show.
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