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

Florida Republican Sen. Ashley Moody has spent the past fewer months introducing and co-sponsoring a slate of authorities aimed astatine helping the Trump medication basal retired billions of dollars successful fraud and theft of national funds, and it is simply a invited accidental for the precocious assemblage to really act.

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

UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 21: Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., leaves the Senate level aft a ballot successful the U.S. Capitol connected Tuesday, October 21, 2025.  (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

In March, Moody, who was Florida's lawyer wide erstwhile she was appointed past twelvemonth by Gov. Ron DeSantis to decorativeness the word of Marco Rubio aft helium near to service arsenic caput of state, introduced the Stop Fraud successful Medicaid Act. That instrumentality would springiness Medicaid Fraud Control Units the quality to grow investigations to radical receiving fraudulent claims, not conscionable those handing them out. She besides introduced the Punishing Health Care Fraudsters Act, which would summation fines and penalties.

If that wasn’t enough, Moody has introduced the No Aid For Ghost Students Act, which targets a benignant of grift we person heard little about, successful which fraudsters taxable fake oregon stolen identities to person national pupil assistance benefits. Like Indians butchering a deer, these thieves usage each portion of the national budget.

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I asked Moody wherefore she chose to absorption truthful overmuch of her vigor connected the contented of fraud.

"I’ve spent astir of my vocation tackling fraud 1 mode oregon another," she said. "As a prosecutor, judge, and arsenic Florida’s lawyer general, it was portion of the job."

GOP enactment successful the Senate would beryllium omniscient to propulsion Moody’s anti-fraud bills not conscionable to the floor, but to the fore of the nationalist conversation. Voters person been expressing choler astatine incumbent Republican senators for not getting things done; helping Vance combat fraud would assistance to soothe them.

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is facing backlash implicit a viral video defending Somalis amid a monolithic fraud scandal. (Getty)

"VP Vance, our full government, and authorities AGs request each instrumentality disposable to spell aft scammers and fraudsters, and I’ve got the toolbox acceptable with a slew of legislative proposals to heighten prosecutorial efforts," Moody said. "Let’s get it done."

So far, Vance has correctly laid retired the 2 main victims of national fraud: first, the payer who is stolen from, and second, the radical who truly bash request these services. But determination is different statement that Republicans should beryllium making.

The immense standard of this fraud, with immoderate estimates arsenic precocious arsenic hundreds of billions of dollars, is specified that not lone would stopping it beryllium justness served to criminals, it would besides beryllium a monolithic windfall for national coffers.

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Maybe the Senate tin win successful immoderate of the areas wherever the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency ran into roadblocks. After all, it is the Senate that passes the funding. Its members should besides beryllium the ones protecting it.

For blimpish voters crossed the state who don’t privation to wage for foreign-born fraudsters, Congress is the lone anticipation we have, due to the fact that erstwhile those national dollars travel retired the doorway to bluish states and cities, it is Katie barroom the doorway connected ridiculous spending and fraud.

We person seen present successful authorities aft authorities what happens erstwhile the national authorities punts its work to support national dollars from fraud. Blue authorities governments conscionable adjacent their eyes and fto it happen.

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Note that not a azygous Democratic authorities lawyer wide attended Vance’s gathering to sermon warring fraud this week, conscionable arsenic anti-fraud hearings successful Congress are often skipped by each Democratic member.

The biggest occupation facing Republicans successful the Senate close now, owing to the unwillingness of Majority Leader John Thune to effort to nuke the 60-vote threshold of the filibuster, is that they are seen arsenic getting thing done. These bills are a accidental to alteration that.

Quality Learning Center successful Minnesota was recovered astatine the halfway of an alleged childcare fraud ungraded successful the state. (Madelin Fuerste / Fox News Channel)

Thune operates by pinning atrocious votes connected the Democrats, a precise last-century tactic. But it's what helium does, and helium hopes that the Save America Act is truthful fashionable that Democrats refusal to get connected committee volition wounded them successful November.

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The occupation is that the Save America Act is thing voters deliberation about, portion the monolithic fraud being committed, often by foreigners, is 1 that American voters consciousness heavy successful their gut.

It is 1 happening for Democrats to accidental during this predetermination play that the Save America Act had this oregon that proviso they didn’t like. It is rather different to say, "Let’s not beryllium excessively hard connected the Somali fraudsters."

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Since Trump took bureau for his 2nd go-round, astir each of the blimpish wins person been his and his alone: the border, cleaning up DC, Venezuela, etc. Only the Big Beautiful Bill truly progressive Congress. But that tin change.

It is clip for Senate Republicans to articulation Vance successful his combat against fraud, and Moody’s bills are a mode to commencement doing that, close now.

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