Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) is pausing more than a billion dollars in Medicare and Medicaid funding to two states, California and Minnesota, in a press conference he held with other top administration officials Tuesday morning:“CMS is pausing more than a billion dollars in federal Medicaid payments to California and to Minnesota because of suspected fraud and non-compliance. That includes more than $867 million for California and over $200 million for Minnesota.”In order for Democrat Governors Newsom (D-Calif.) and Walz (D-Minn.) to have the funding unpaused, RFK Jr. explained that “all they have to do is provide basic documentation showing that these services are legitimate and not fraudulent.”Governor Walz criticized the move on X, calling it a ploy to take away Americans’ healthcare benefits: “This isn’t about fraud—it’s about cutting your healthcare so that Trump can afford the tax cuts he gave to billionaires.”….“They’re cutting more money in healthcare than they’ve prosecuted for fraud. The math doesn’t add up.”CMS Director Dr. Mehmet Oz estimates that a total of $413 million in underreported Medicare and Medicaid claims have been identified in Minnesota alone. Oz also said that the majority of the $199 million paused funds relate to the amount claimed by providers that Minnesota disenrolled on suspicion of fraud, the quarter before they were disenrolled. As for California, Oz raised concern over a 24% increase in California spending on in-home support services over the last two fiscal quarters, compared to a 12% increase nationwide, accounting for $391 million in paused funds. Another $250 million in claims were by providers deemed to have a high risk of fraud. Oz also alleged a widespread problem of claims involving illegal aliens, and $221 million were paused due to that concern. Secretary Kennedy used this opportunity to highlight the Biden Administration’s lack of effective anti-fraud measures, explaining how it cut anti-fraud staff and paid suspected fraudsters: “When Xavier Beccera came into this office, there were only 80 individuals involved in the program integrity program. By the time that I got in, there were only six; 74 of those were gone that is six individuals responsible for ensuring program integrity and guarding against fraud in 50 states and five territories. Even when they suspected fraud, the Biden HHS sent checks anyway and tried to claw back the money later. It didn't make sense and it didn't work. The scammers got paid. The taxpayers got stuck with these enormous bills.”Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson reiterated many of the concerns about fraud’s effect on social trust he previously leveled at anti-fraud roundtables:“Our society has disintegrated from the high trust society that it has been. And the only way that we can restore that high trust is to make sure that the money stays in the agencies or goes to people who actually need it – and if you get money fraudulently, you go to jail.“And that is what this is this anti-fraud effort is about. Not just protecting the fisc. It is restoring an America. It is making America great by making sure that the social trust that a self-governing democracy to survives can be restored.”

ABC via SnapStream Amid the Federal Communications Commission’s probe into possibly stripping The View of their “bona fide news program” status and the FCC receiving pushback on the prospect of renewing the broadcast licenses of ABC affiliates, The New York Post was reporting that the day time TV giant was under great financial pressure and appeared to be buckling. So much so, that requests for raises from co-hosts were being denied and their wardrobe budget was being slashed.According to The Post, a network insider says The View was experiencing “major cost cuts” and that all six co-hosts have received pay cuts:“The View” has been hit with major cost cuts, which have affected not only the hosts’ wardrobe budgets, but their pay raises.A source told Page Six Hollywood that several of the hosts — Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin — have taken pay cuts since Season 29 premiered in September 2025.The cast were apparently upset that their ABC budget for "expensive designer clothes” was reportedly being slashed as well:Not only that, but the women’s wardrobe budget was affected, with a source explaining, “They’re all mad because they were all wearing really expensive designer clothes, and now it’s the same budget of a Wendy Williams-type show versus a marquee daytime show.“They keep downsizing and downsizing and downsizing.”They also didn’t seem to appreciate the brand new studio ABC invested in, which tracks with previous reporting that moderator Whoopi Goldberg was refusing to use her new dressing room because it didn’t have an ensuite bathroom. “The show has downgraded its filming space, and the fan-favorite Halloween show will be scrapped this year,” the report said.A reason that The View was able to weather the storm of shifting audience watching patterns and expectations better than the late night comedy shows was their diverse revenue streams, which didn’t solely rely on ad placements.But the report also notes they’ve started to hemorrhage their as well: “Meanwhile, product integrations have become rare as advertisers have begun reaching out to competitors of ‘The View.’”Given how late ABC and Disney arrived in attempting to rally the show’s supporters to filing positive comments with the FCC on their behalf, perhaps the budget cuts were a preemptive move to be in a better position to cut their losses when the time came.

Media Research Center President David Bozell joined the Daily Wire’s Morning Wire podcast Wednesday morning to address the FCC’s incoming ruling on ABC’s The View and its severe bias. The FCC will determine whether The View is upholding its legal duty to “act in the public interest,” while the MRC argues that it is not doing so.Bozell explained that the MRC submitted over 2,000 pieces of evidence to the FCC proving The View’s political imbalance. He noted that while The View was quick to host President Biden, “The View's executive producer said they would not invite the President of the United States,” Donald J. Trump. But the obvious imbalance reaches beyond this single instance and spans across the entire show:"When you have 130 liberal guests to so-called conservative guests, the disparity is right there for everyone to see."@DavidBozell calls out The View for blatant bias against conservatives on @MorningWire. pic.twitter.com/rJsjiA1QvW— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 22, 2026Bozell argued that The View fails to meet the legal public interest standard required of broadcast television, making its unchecked leftist bias unlawful:ABC is required to air programs that "act in the public interest." It doesn't benefit the public when The View is saying that ICE are murdering people in the street and it terrifies them to see American flags. @DavidBozell @MorningWire pic.twitter.com/2hgSJYDmdq— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 22, 2026The View is taking its taxpayer-provided access to the public airwaves for granted, as Bozell made clear. Instead of serving the public as a whole—both the Right and the Left—The View is pushing its one-sided political agenda. If they're going to be designated as a bona fide news program, I'm going to enjoy watching the small army of lawyers stand behind these ladies and have to issue retraction after retraction … If they're not listed as a bona fide news program by the FCC, there's a strong possibility that ABC probably has to kick The View to a streaming platform.Either way, The View and its leftist ladies are in hot water. Bozell pointed to the show’s hypocrisy and lack of logic, adding, “I call it The Cackle, not The View.” Watch the entire segment here:

ABC via SnapStream In reacting to a Congressional hearing regarding woke and other far-left exhibits being promoted by the Smithsonian, The View cast stumbled over themselves as they lashed out at Republicans. For her part, chronically aggrieved co-host Sunny Hostin was irritated and suggested the opposition to such exhibits specifically came from a refusal to pay her and other black people “our due” via reparations. Meanwhile, Hostin was the descendant of slave owners who has not made an effort to pay reparations herself.“I think the reason, the real reason behind this is about financial repair to the descendants to the enslaved Africans,” Hostin proclaimed. “Reparations. I think this reflects a really broad effort by the Trump administration to reshape the way the nation's history is told so this country does not have to pay black people for the forced labor and the unpaid labor that built this country.”Of course, to someone as staunchly racist as Hostin only black people and no other group “built this country.”What Hostin was really driven by was jealousy and greed. She made that fact clear by whining about other groups:Let's face it, when you have truth and reconciliation commissions, and you have them when it comes to interned Japanese Americans, you had them when it comes to the Holocaust, you've had them when it comes to Native Americans. It has not happened, true and reconciliation commissions, when it comes to slavery.The major difference between those truth and reconciliation commissions and demanding reparations for slavery in 2026 is the fact that no one alive today was enslaved, and the gulf in between the generations that experienced it. Those other effort to make amends were given to the people who actively experienced it in real time. Sunny Hostin whines that the Trump administration doesn't want America to pay her and other black people "our due" via reparations.Hostin's family owned slaves and tried to out run the abolition of slavery, but she has not made an effort to find and repay their descendants. pic.twitter.com/dk6kPukKh2— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 22, 2026 Hostin continued her diatribe by rambling on about how there was also an effort to “erase that truth” that slavery happened. She once again put the United Nations above the United States, the country she’s “embarrassed” by: And that is because they're trying to bury the truth part. You cannot have true reconciliation, and you cannot have true financial repair unless you have the truth! And they're trying to erase that truth. So to actually -- it's very important, because I want to mention that in March 25, 2026, just this year, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution officially declaring that the transatlantic trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of African Americans is the gravest crime against humanity in history, in the world.She finally concluded: “This is not about anything else. It's about this country trying to avoid paying African Americans our due.”Well, as NewsBusters previously reported, Hostin has never tried to pay what’s due from her family to those they enslaved. Yet the multimillionaire felt that she deserved reparations: “I still believe in reparations! By the way. So, y'all can stop texting me and emailing me and saying that I'm a white girl and I don't deserve reparations! (…) so I still believe in reparations. I still believe this country has a lot to do in terms of racial justice.” While calling the revelations a "bummer" she went on to snap at her critics and insisted "I still believe in reparations." pic.twitter.com/Pdh4mgOpI7— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 6, 2026 ABC and The View did not respond to NewsBusters’ latest request for comment on Hostin’s reparation demands nor any of our fair questions about her activity over the last two-and-half years. Here are those questions:-Has Hostin made any effort to find out who her family enslaved?-Does she know who her family enslaved?-If they have any, has she attempted to reach out to any of their living descendants?-Has she offered to pay them reparations or set up any sort of fund for those descendants?-How much is she willing to pay them in reparations?-If she hasn't done any of these things, why not?Over the years, Hostin had insisted that she personally deserved to receive reparations from both the U.S. and U.K. (despite being a multimillionaire TV co-host).The transcripts are below. Click "expand" to read:ABC’s The ViewJuly 22, 202611:07:56 a.m. Eastern(…)SUNNY HOSTIN: I think the reason, the real reason behind this is about financial repair to the descendants to the enslaved Africans.WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Say what you mean, so people understand. Yes.HOSTIN: Reparations. I think this reflects a really broad effort by the Trump administration to reshape the way the nation's history is told so this country does not have to pay black people for the forced labor and the unpaid labor that built this country. JOY BEHAR: That’s right.HOSTIN: I really think that this is what this is about!If you look at Project 2025, that's what this is about. BEHAR: Follow the money!HOSTIN: Because even after 250 years, there's so much repair that needs to be done when it comes to aggrieved groups in this country, but especially African Americans.Let's face it, when you have truth and reconciliation commissions, and you have them when it comes to interned Japanese Americans, you had them when it comes to the Holocaust, you've had them when it comes to Native Americans. It has not happened, true and reconciliation commissions, when it comes to slavery.And that is because they're trying to bury the truth part. You cannot have true reconciliation, and you cannot have true financial repair unless you have the truth! And they're trying to erase that truth. So to actually -- it's very important, because I want to mention that in March 25, 2026, just this year, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution officially declaring that the transatlantic trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of African Americans is the gravest crime against humanity in history, in the world.Only three countries voted against it, Argentina, Israel, and the United States. And when the United States voted against it, the United States said the following: “it does not recognize legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.”And so what this is about is money, Joy. This is not about anything else. It's about this country trying to avoid paying African Americans our due.(…)

The anti-Trump newspapers find so many Trump scandals you can't actually tell if some of these things are a scandal. On the front of Monday's Style Section, The Washington Post reported thje president has added a statue of Thomas Jefferson to the Rose Garden. Scandalous? Well, The Post found an art expert to suggest this Jefferson thing reminds them of North Korean communist dictators. Whaaaaat? The byline on the story is Dan Diamond, White House reporter, and Olivia George, who's "a National Political Reporter focused on political violence and domestic extremism." So a Jefferson statue is for Domestic Extremists with a violent streak? The Post typically employed anonymous sources: President Trump installed a statue of Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden last week, according to people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the yet-to-be-announced move — continuing Trump’s effort to remake the White House and Washington. https://t.co/rqNWASt145— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 20, 2026Diamond and George explained: "The bronze, life-size statue depicts the nation’s third president seated with a draft of the Declaration of Independence. It was sculpted by George Lundeen, who told The Washington Post that he received a congratulatory call from Trump this month."They noted there are now five statues there, three of them on loan from "conservative" collector Harlan Crow, last starring in a Clarence Thomas travel scandal from the liberals at ProPublica.The Post quoted Trump appointee Rodney Mims Cook: “I think he’s spot-on after the billions in Patrimony we destroyed after George Floyd died,” referring to damage done to monuments during the riotous post-Floyd protests.Then they turned to a very bitter critic:“All told, the statues dating to his second term are of negligible artistic value,” Maxwell Anderson, the former president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, wrote in an email. Anderson also drew comparisons between Trump’s preferences and what he said were similar practices by dictators who led North Korea and the Soviet Union.“President Trump’s embrace of an official classicizing style in art and architecture finds its closest equivalent in authoritarian regimes,” Anderson wrote.This last line was highlighted in bold italic type in the newspaper. How a statue of Jefferson inspires thoughts of Kim Jong-Il is anyone's guess. Then they reported on how Trump dared to promote statues of Founding Father Caesar Rodney (an “enslaver”) and of Christopher Columbus:Two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations said Trump — who has faced his own share of protests — has in the past privately said he identified with figures such as Columbus, who was hailed for centuries as a great explorer before his role in colonization and enslavement made him controversial.Just for their own fun, the Posties recalled: "Several satiric statues have appeared around Washington mocking Trump before being swiftly removed." They've promoted every satirical sculptural attack on Trump.