Team USA hockey player recaps Oval office visit with Brett
Team USA Olympic hockey players Connor Hellebuyck and the Tkachuk brothers talk about support from Americans, the significance of the gold medal victory and the State of the Union
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https://youtu.be/s3CeLvZ9PKg
Brit Hume: THIS was a VERY bad moment for AOC…Newsom is freakin crazy!
Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume discusses Gov. Gavin Newsom’s remarks while on his book tour and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defending her Taiwan policy answer
(Brit is getting old)
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https://youtu.be/eTs3UAUw6sU
Vance launches into Trump's 'war on fraud' by suspending Medicaid payments to Minnesota
The announcement came a day after Trump announced the vice president would take on a new role leading the administration's anti-fraud efforts.1/2
Feb. 25, 2026, 6:27 PM EST / Updated Feb. 25, 2026, 6:44 PM EST
WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance got a new assignment Tuesday night: fighting a “war on fraud” that President Donald Trump declared in his State of the Union address.
It’s the latest addition to a portfolio that has included saving TikTok from extinction in the U.S. and selling Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” — and it comes with Trump’s high expectations.
“He’ll get it done,” Trump pledged in his speech. “And if we’re able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget overnight.”
Vance, joined by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, announced the opening salvo in the effort Wednesday: .a pause on federal Medicaid reimbursements to Minnesota. The state is subject to an ongoing fraud probe involving day care centers and allegations of misuse of funds that has become a rallying cause for Republicans.
“We have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligation seriously to be good stewards of the American people’s tax money,” Vance said at an afternoon news conference.
Oz said the Trump administration had notified Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, of its plan,which would keep the state from receiving a $259 million Medicaid reimbursement this month. The figure, Oz said, is based on an audit over the last three months of 2025.
“We will give them the money, but we’re going to hold it and only release it after they propose an act on a comprehensive corrective action plan to solve the problem,” Oz said. “If Minnesota fails to clean up the systems, the state will rack up a billion dollars of deferred payments this year.”
Oz added that Walz has 60 days to respond. Spokespeople for Walz — who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2024 and is a frequent target of White House criticism — did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
But in a post on X Wednesday after Vance and Oz's remarks,Walz responded, "This has nothing to do with fraud. The agents Trump allegedly sent to investigate fraud are shooting protesters and arresting children. His DOJ is gutting the U.S. Attorney’s Office and crippling their ability to prosecute fraud. And every week Trump pardons another fraudster."
"These cuts will be devastating for veterans, families with young kids, folks with disabilities, and working people across our state," he added.
“If providers and beneficiaries are worried about getting their money and services, please call your governor,” Oz said. “These are services the governor has already paid for. We are just not reimbursing the state. To make it clear, there is a rainy-day fund in Minnesota, so we are very confident that people will not be hurt in Minnesota.”
Vance, responding to a question from NBC News, saidhe was “quite confident” the administration had the legal authority to withhold funds appropriated by Congress.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-vance/vance-trump-war-fraud-suspending-medicaid-payments-minnesota-rcna260655
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“We’re the ones who spend this money. Congress appropriates it. We’re the ones who actually make sure this goes to the people it ought to go to,” Vance said. “And inherent in that is making sure that it only goes to the people that Congress says that it should go to.We shouldn’t be sending money to fraudsters.”
He added: “I’d reiterate, we don’t want to do this. We don’t want to be in a situation where the state of Minnesota is being so careless with federal tax dollars that we have to turn the screws on them a little bit so that they take this fraud seriously.”
In his address Tuesday, Trump singled out other Democratic-led states, including California, Maine and Massachusetts, and attributed $19 billion in fraud to Minnesota and its Somali community — a claim that lacks evidence. The Justice Department has charged 98 people there, 85 of whom are Somali, with $1 billion in fraud.
“For too long, nefarious fraudsters have gotten away with stealing from and exploiting the American people — theTrump Administration will no longer allow these sick criminals to rip off hardworking Americans,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said Wednesday in an emailed statement. “President Trump and his entire Administration remain committed to stopping fraud. And the Administration’s efforts have already been fruitful, with ongoing investigations and important actions to ensure American dollars aren’t being stolen, and we’re just getting started.”
Vance and his office recently helped launch the Justice Department’s Division of National Fraud Enforcement. In an interview with Fox News earlier Wednesday, Vance said a “full, whole-government approach” torooting out fraud would also involve the Treasury Department.
“The Department of Justice is going to be investigating and, where possible, throwing fraudsters in prison,” he said. “But it’s also going to mean that [Treasury Secretary] Scott Bessent and some of our friends at the Treasury Department,we’re going to be looking at income tax records. We’re going to be trying to understand how it is that the American people have been defrauded,how it is that people have used resources and programs that should go to American citizens and instead have been going to fraudulent uses.”
Vance added that he sees “a whole host of tools that we have that have never been used.”
When pressed, Vance was less sure how much money might be recovered.
“We know that it’s billions and billions of dollars that should go to American citizens,” he said.
Vance also was noncommittal on a time frame for the work.
“I think the year, the next year, is where we’re going to try to uncover as much as possible and run at this as much as we can,” he said. “But it’s not going to stop after a year.”
Vice presidential duties can be politically compromising and tricky to navigate. Under President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked to tackle the “root cause” of migration and lead in policy areas such as abortion. Both were thorny issues, and immigration in particular was seen as a challenging one for Harris when she faced off against Trump in 2024.
Aside from keeping TikTok online and whipping support in Congress for Trump’s legislative priorities, Vance’s portfolio has included supporting roles in Middle East diplomacy and efforts to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine. Vance, who is seen as a likely candidate for president when Trump is term-limited in 2028, also has traveled the country more than Trump has to promote the White House agenda.
Vance will continue fulfilling that particular duty Thursday, with post-State of the Union remarks scheduled in Plover, Wisconsin.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-vance/vance-trump-war-fraud-suspending-medicaid-payments-minnesota-rcna260655
ICE arrested 261 DACA recipients over 10 months last year, document shows
By Camilo Montoya-Galvez
Updated on: February 25, 2026 / 7:27 PM EST / CBS News
Federal immigration agents arrested 261 beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, during the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, according to official U.S. government statistics that were shared with Congress and obtained by CBS News.
The statistics indicate the vast majority of DACA recipients taken into federal immigration custody during that period had criminal records.
The government figures provide the most comprehensive official accounting so far of how many DACA recipients, also known as "Dreamers," have been swept up by President Trump's nationwide deportation crackdown.
Those enrolled in the Obama-era DACA program came to the U.S. illegally or overstayed their visas as children. They were granted temporary work permits and deportation protections after passing background checks and meeting several requirements, including coming to the U.S. before June 2007, not having serious criminal histories and graduating from an American high school or serving in the military.
In a letter to Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Department of Homeland Security said that between Jan. 1 and Nov. 19, 2025, ICE arrested 261 DACA beneficiaries and deported 86 of them. That timeframe includes the final 19 days of President Joe Biden's term, though it is unclear how many of the arrests occurred under his administration, which rarely targeted DACA beneficiaries.
DHS said in its letter that 241 — or 92% — of the 261 DACA enrollees taken into ICE custody had "criminal histories" outside of civil immigration violations. DHS typically considers pending criminal charges and convictions as criminal histories. The letter, signed by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, did not specify the severity of the alleged criminal records.
CBS News reached out to representatives for DHS, including to request more details on the nature of the charges or convictions of the DACA recipients identified as having criminal histories.
In a statement in response to the DHS letter, Durbin and fellow Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla and Mark Kelly called the arrests of DACA recipients "deeply troubling," saying the detentions "disrupt families, harm communities, and inflict unnecessary social, emotional, and economic costs."
The Democratic senators also questioned the criminal figures provided by DHS, noting they're demanding more details.
"Secretary Noem's response to our letter claims that 241 of the 261 DACA recipients arrested had 'criminal histories,' without providing any further details," they said. "DACA recipients go through strict background checks every time they renew this protection, and the Trump Administration has not hesitated to arrest immigrants with no serious criminal convictions and falsely label them the 'worst of the worst.'"
==The arrests and deportations of DACA recipients represent a significant increase from unofficial estimates by advocates about how many "Dreamers" had been arrested under Mr. Trump's deportation campaign. But they also represent a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants with active DACA status.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daca-recipients-ice-arrested-2025-trump-administration/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a