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.
NEW: Vice President JD Vance’s antifraud task force is set to remove hundreds of thousands people from the Affordable Care Act’s public exchanges, saying those enrollees don’t meet eligibility requirements or don’t exist at al
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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.
VP Vance at @WHFraudTF event:
“No fraud is too small. 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.”🔥 pic.twitter.com/I1kbztv8Yr
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) September 14, 2026