Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force is poised to boot more than 700,000 individuals from the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges amid alleged fraud, the Wall Street Journal first reported Tuesday.
Vance and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz plan to announce they are halting subsidy payments for allegedly improper and fraudulent ACA enrollments for 760,000 individual accounts, the WSJ reported, citing anonymous Trump administration officials. The move comes as the administration has been cracking down on healthcare fraud ahead of November’s midterm elections.
According to the administration officials, the enforcement action would save an estimated $2.2 billion in taxpayer funding, the WSJ reported.
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES. VP JD Vance and Dr. Oz just announced the Trump admin is BLOCKING the Obamacare enrollment for 750,000 likely FRAUDSTERS
And 419,000 people will need additional verification
Vance says many enrollees might not be LEGAL RESIDENTS OF AMERICA in the FIRST PLACE 🤯… pic.twitter.com/Yj76nIYeJe
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 22, 2026
Officials also told the outlet that those enrollees include individuals who did not realize that they were enrolled in Obamacare, are ineligible to be enrolled in the ACA’s exchanges because they already have employer-sponsored healthcare or earn an annual income more than 400% above the federal poverty level.
When reached for comment, the White House referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to Vance’s press team who in turn did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
Paragon Health Institute estimates released in August show that improper enrollment across Obamacare exchanges cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars in 2024. In May, CMS issued a final rule aiming to bolster oversight and root out fraud across the ACA exchanges.
“No fraud is too small,” Vance said in a Sept. 14 X post. “If you tried to steal money from the American taxpayer, if you took funds that ought by right have gone to American small businesses or American workers, not only are we going to cut you off, we’re going to prosecute you.”
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