Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill @HHS_Jim
I can confirm public speculation that Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and President of the Security Council, is in fact associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati.
HHS has previously taken action against Progressive in response to a conviction for Medicaid fraud.
More to come.
@HHSGov
5:04 PM · Jan 5, 2026
https://x.com/HHS_Jim/status/2008298586530787577
White House Press Pool Reports
@WHPressPool
In-Town Note 2: Lid!
The White House called a travel/photo lid at 1802 ET.
Pool did not lay eyes on POTUS today but Steven Miller did engage in brief gaggle at around 1754 following an appearance on CNN.
Enjoy your evening, folks.
Andrew Feinberg
The Independent
Mon. Jan. 5, 6:05 PM
6:07 PM · Jan 5, 2026
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2008314416261992806
White House Press Pool Reports
@WHPressPool
ICYMI: Here’s What the Trump Administration Is Doing to Crush Minnesota’s Fraud Epidemic
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
01/05/26
** ICYMI: Here’s What the Trump Administration Is Doing to Crush Minnesota’s Fraud Epidemic
President Donald J. Trump and his Administration are unleashing a relentless assault to dismantle the massive fraud empires built in Minnesota under the watch of incompetent Democrats like Tim Walz and his Radical Left enablers.
Fueled by shocking video (https://x.com/nickshirleyy/status/2004642794862961123
) from Nick Shirley and tenacious reporting (https://alphanews.org/fraudmn/) by Alpha News exposing the Somali-dominated scams that have bled taxpayers dry, this Administration is spearheading a no-holds-barred effort to hunt down and prosecute the criminals who have exploited Democrats’ non-existent oversight to bilk hardworking taxpayers out of billions of dollars.
Here are actions the Trump Administration has already taken:
• The Department of Justice is currently engaged in multiple active, ongoing, and extensive investigations into the fraudulent activity that has occurred in various Minnesota programs, including the state’s Feeding Our Future, Housing Stabilization Services, Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention programs, and Evergreen Recovery.
To date, DOJ has charged (https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/2005764911427731459?s=20) 98 defendants in Minnesota fraud-related cases 85 of whom (https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2006533670358663367) are of Somali descent. 64 the defendants have already been convicted.
DOJ has already issued over 1,750 subpoenas, executed over 130 search warrants, and conducted over 1,000 witness interviews as part of its ongoing investigation.
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Many of the facilities and schemes visited in Shirley’s viral video are currently under active investigation by the DOJ; in fact, one of the buildings (https://x.com/lizcollin/status/1945525577969959328) prominently featured in the video has had 13 defendants charged for fraud.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting (https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/2006091693259636775) investigations into dozens of the state’s health care and home care providers accused of fraud, surging forensic accountants and data analytics teams, and investigating potential links to elected officials and terrorist financing.
• The Department of Homeland Security is on the ground (https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2005688262695018606) conducting door-to-door (https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2006130445755322720) investigations of suspected fraud sites in Minnesota, with hundreds of Homeland Security Investigations officers in the state and more on the way.
DHS has arrested over 1,000 criminal illegal aliens in just the past few weeks as immigration enforcement operations continue. Additionally, as part of Operation Twin Shield earlier this year, DHS identified (https://uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-announces-results-of-operation-twin-shield-a-large-scale-immigration-fraud-investigation) over 1,300 fraud findings based on site visits in Minneapolis and Saint Paul and is currently in the process of determining which cases require additional vetting, including for refugee status and potential (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5667727-trump-administration-denaturalization-somali-minnesota/) denaturalization.
• The Department of Health and Human Services has frozen (https://foxnews.com/politics/hhs-freezes-minnesota-child-care-payments-over-alleged-daycare-fraud-scheme) childcare payments and started (https://nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/hhs-halts-federal-child-care-payments-minnesota-fraud-claims-rcna251619) requiring a justification, receipt, or photo evidence for all childcare-related payments nationwide, and is enforcing (https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15379705/minnesota-somali-donald-trump-fraud-hhs.html) a long-ignored federal law to demand repayment of Medicaid benefits incurred by sponsored immigrants from their sponsors. HHS is also currently investigating (https://nypost.com/2025/12/16/us-news/hhs-probes-whether-billions-in-taxpayer-money-used-to-fuel-illegal-and-mass-migration/) Minnesota’s Head Start programs over allegations of fraud by illegal aliens.
• The Small Business Administration has halted (https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5665860-sba-halts-grants-minnesota-fraud/) all annual grant program payments to Minnesota. The agency also suspended (https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5669459-minnesota-fraud-sba-ppp/) 6,900 borrowers in the state for approximately $400 million in suspected fraudulent activity banning the individuals from all further loan programs, including disaster loans, and referring (https://x.com/SBA_Kelly/status/2007305595120943225) criminals for prosecution.
• The Department of Housing and Urban Development has dispatched (https://newsnationnow.com/crime/root-out-fraud-hud-secretary-minnesota/) a team to Minnesota to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into possible public housing assistance fraud.
• The Department of Labor is currently conducting (https://dol.gov/newsroom/releases/eta/eta20251215) a targeted review of Minnesota’s Unemployment Insurance program.
• The Department of Agriculture has demanded (https://foxnews.com/us/agriculture-secretary-demands-minnesota-fix-snap-benefits-4-counties-immediately-under-pilot-program) Minnesota conduct recertification for its SNAP recipients to ensure the program complies with eligibility requirements a commonsense move inexplicably challenged (https://ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2025/12/23_SNAP.asp
) in court by state officials.
President Trump promised decisive action and his Administration is delivering, with investigations, freezes, and prosecutions spanning multiple agencies. These complex criminal networks didn’t build themselves overnight on Tim Walz’s watch, and rooting them out completely requires thorough, methodical work to build cases that secure convictions and recover taxpayer dollars.
The Trump Administration is moving with full force and urgency and more results are on the way.
Distributed on Mon. Jan. 5, 2026
1:55 PM · Jan 5, 2026
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2008251015355674874
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false
letter is here
https://dallasexpress.com/national/exclusive-former-maduro-spy-chiefs-letter-to-trump-seeks-to-expose-narco-terrorist-war-against-u-s/
Memorandum to Update Childhood Immunization Schedule
WASHINGTON, D.C. — JANUARY 5, 2026 — Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill, in his role as Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), today signed a decision memorandum* [PDF, 894 KB] accepting recommendations from a comprehensive scientific assessment [PDF, 1.05 MB] of U.S. childhood immunization practices, following a directive from President Trump to review international best practices from peer, developed countries.On December 5, 2025, via a Presidential Memorandum, President Trump directed the Secretary of HHS and the Acting Director of CDC to examine how peer, developed nations structure their childhood vaccination schedules and to evaluate the scientific evidence underlying those practices. He instructed them to update the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule if superior approaches exist abroad while preserving access to vaccine currently available to Americans.
…
https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/cdc-acts-presidential-memorandum-update-childhood-immunization-schedule.html
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
Decision Memo
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta GA 30329-4027
DATE:
January 5, 2026
TO:
Jim O'Neill, Acting Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
FROM:
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, Director, National Institutes of Health
Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Marty Makary, MD, MPH, Commissioner of Food and Drugs
SUBJECT:
DECISION REQUESTED - Adopting Revised Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule
PURPOSE
This memorandum proposes a revised childhood and adolescent immunization schedule for your review
…
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/decision-memo-adopting-revised-childhood-adolescent-immunization-schedule.pdf
Assessment of the U.S. Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule Compared to Other Countries
January 2, 2026
Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, Ph.D., Acting Director for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
and FDA Ex Officio member to ACIP, and Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., Chief Science and Data
Officer for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, in consultation with experts at CDC, FDA, NIH, and CMS.
Executive Summary
On December 5, 2025, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum1 directing the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to review best practices from peer, developed nations regarding childhood vaccination recommendations and the scientific evidence underlying those practices. The President instructed them to update the U.S. core childhood vaccine schedule if they determine that superior practices exist abroad.
This assessment is a scientific, evidence-based, data-driven response to the President’s directive. It argues that a change in the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule is necessary. It compares the U.S. with peer nations, examines vaccine uptake and trust, addresses clinical and epidemiological considerations and knowledge gaps, analyzes vaccine mandates, and outlines recommendations and next steps for immediate and long-term action.
…
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/assessment-of-the-us-childhood-and-adolescent-immunization-schedule-compared-to-other-countries.pdf
AAFP
@aafp
The AAFP rigorously reviews the science so we can support family physicians in protecting patients through safe, effective vaccination. You can count on the AAFP childhood immunization schedule:
https://www.aafp.org/family-physician/patient-care/prevention-wellness/immunizations-vaccines/immunization-schedules/birth-through-age-18-immunization-schedule.html
3:39 PM · Jan 5, 2026
https://x.com/aafp/status/2008277094816489930
Ahead of 5th Anniversary of January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, Judiciary Democrats Release New Reports Focused on the Careers of the Coup Plotters, the Rioters and the Democracy Defenders Since Jan. 6 and the Trump Pardons
January 5, 2026
Press Release
Reports Find That At Least 33 Pardoned January 6th Insurrectionists Have Committed Additional Crimes Since Storming the Capitol
Other Insurrectionists, Co-Conspirators and Election Deniers Now Serve At Highest Ranks of the Department of Justice and Trump’s Administration
Those Who Defended Democracy Have Been Cast Aside, Fired and Demoted, But Are Standing Strong
Washington, D.C. (January 5, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released two new reports ahead of the fifth anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ahead-of-5th-anniversary-of-january-6-attack-on-the-us-capitol-judiciary-democrats-release-new-reports-focused-on-the-careers-of-the-coup-plotters-the-rioters-and-the-democracy-defenders-since-jan-6-and-the-trump-pardons
/Raskin