Evening Wire: Student Visa Fraud Exposed & Medicaid Probe Freezes Billions | 5.13.26

Georgia Howe· Host0:00

[upbeat music] ICE makes a major fraud discovery involving over 10,000 foreign students. President Trump lands in Beijing, and a Daily Wire investigation triggers a $1.4 billion spending freeze by JD Vance. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Wednesday, May 13th, and this is Evening Wire. [air whooshing] A Daily Wire Medicaid investigation has triggered a $1.4 billion spending freeze. The announcement comes days after Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak published a series of stories documenting how Ohio spent a billion dollars on home healthcare in 2024. He testified this morning in a hearing on the matter that was closed to the press. Here's a breakdown of what occurred.

Luke Rosiak0:44

Hey, it's Luke Rosiak. It's been a busy day on Capitol Hill. This morning, um, we got the administration, Dr. Oz and the Trump administration, terminated $1.4 billion in payments, all home healthcare payments, now suspended because of The Daily Wire's reporting. And what we're seeing is people not just saying they're gonna investigate waste and fraud, but talking about terminating the home health personal services program entirely. Um, easiest way to get rid of all this fraud is just terminate the whole program. And so we're seeing congressmen build momentum from telling RFK and, and the HHS to just terminate those personal services Medicaid waivers with