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DAVID MARCUS: Florida senator's wave of anti-fraud bills should be slam dunk

Moody introduced bills targeting Medicaid fraud, healthcare penalties and fake student identities used to steal aid

By David Marcus Fox News

Published May 28, 2026 11:23am EDT

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Vance touts success of anti-fraud task force in recovering $160B

Vice President JD Vance announces the anti-fraud task force has recovered $160 billion in fraudulent funds. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita provides his analysis during 'America's Newsroom.'

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Florida Republican Sen. Ashley Moody has spent the last few months introducing and co-sponsoring a slate of legislation aimed at helping the Trump administration root out billions of dollars in fraud and theft of federal funds, and it is a welcome chance for the upper body to actually act.

Vice President JD Vance is spearheading the White House effort, targeting everything from Medicare fraud in Minnesota to fake hospice centers in Los Angeles, and the scale of the money lost, billions and billions of dollars, is staggering.

Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., leaves the Senate floor after a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 21, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

In March, Moody, who was Florida's attorney general when she was appointed last year by Gov. Ron DeSantis to finish the term of Marco Rubio after he left to serve as secretary of state, introduced the Stop Fraud in Medicaid Act. That law would give Medicaid Fraud Control Units the ability to expand investigations to people receiving fraudulent claims, not........

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