House Oversight to examine Medicare fraud, Smithsonian, DEI policies

(The Center Square) – The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is set to host three hearings on issues that have been ongoing priorities for the Trump administration.

Medicare fraud

At 2 p.m. Tuesday , the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services will hold a roundtable on Medicare fraud involving skin-substitute spending.

GOP-led congressional committees have held numerous hearings on fraud during the second Trump administration, especially since the roughly $9 billion of fraud, waste and abuse in Minnesota Medicaid and other government assistance programs came to light.

The administration has created several task forces on fraud, including the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, which President Donald Trump commissioned in March via executive order as an inter-departmental team leading a government-wide approach to combat fraud in federal benefits programs. The Treasury Department announced earlier this year that the IRS was ...