CBS and Paramount are set to pay a humiliating settlement to Donald Trump that goes beyond millions in cash payouts and could flood their liberal audiences with conservative content. The president is set to get $16million from CBS and Paramount straight away to reimburse him for legal fees for what he claims is misleading editing to an interview before the election with rival Kamala Harris.
In a crackdown on medical malfeasance, the Justice Department today announced the results of its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, leading to criminal charges against a staggering 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurses, and pharmacists.
This monumental effort spans 50 federal districts and 12 state attorneys general’s offices, targeting schemes that collectively represent over $14.6 billion in intended losses. The actual loss was $2.9 billion.
“This record-setting Health Care Fraud Takedown delivers justice to criminal actors who prey upon our most vulnerable citizens and steal from hardworking American taxpayers,” declared Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Make no mistake – this administration will not tolerate criminals who line their pockets with taxpayer dollars while endangering the health and safety of our communities.”
The nationwide sweep, a collaborative tour-de-force involving federal and state law enforcement agencies, has not only exposed widespread corruption but also yielded significant financial recoveries. Authorities have seized over $245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency, and other assets, demonstrating the immense return on investment from these enforcement efforts.Related video: Sentencing in Medicare kickback conspiracy (WKRN Nashville)
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Adding to the impact, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed it successfully prevented over $4 billion from being paid out on false claims and suspended or revoked the billing privileges of 205 providers. Furthermore, civil charges were brought against 20 defendants for $14.2 million in alleged fraud, and civil settlements with 106 defendants totaled an additional $34.3 million.
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of the Department of Health and Human Services underscored the commitment, stating, “As part of making healthcare accessible and affordable to all Americans, HHS will aggressively work with our law enforcement partners to eliminate the pervasive health care fraud that bedeviled this agency under the former administration and drove up costs.”
Cleaning up the corruption and bringing back the U.S. – Thank you for the DOGE WORK; but, my question:
If AI/robots are now causing the loss of jobs as stated earlier…..? How will this bill do this….? Isn’t it already happening? Isn’t the government “fast tracking” with loans for new/old businesses?
Isn’t this bill part of the correction?
Don’t want this to be a – cut off my nose to spite my face question! Just askin’?
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It has caused bitter divisions in the party and contributed to a breakdown in relations between Mr Trump and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.
Mr Musk doubled down on his distaste for the bill on Saturday night.
“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country,” Mr Musk wrote on X.
“It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.”
The Tesla and SpaceX chief executive later posted that the bill would be “political suicide for the Republican Party”.
We have to make adjustments – but, no one wants to! They voted to put our budget in order; but, no one wants to accept the HURT. DOGE proved the left – DEMOCRATS – OVER SPENT.
Now the left doesn’t want to accept the proof. We have the left/progressives who are the ones who are causing the riots in California and continue to squeal about the lack of FREE MONEY – they are use to. They want to continue supporting Iran, who is not our friend. We have to put all of this in perspective.
The leftie education system has to accept what they did to our children by dumbing them down and the corruption. This has to change. My suggestion is to establish a school to give these students a second chance by re-educating those who are interested – we have 18 past years of students who were pushed through the system. Corporations have called this out – that young workers “don’t know anything.”
The left is blaming Trump for the turmoil as the article states – when it was their own doing. They allowed this! Can you imagine arriving at the college level and do not know how to read or write – even your own name?
Exposed: How Trump unleashed ‘utter turmoil’ on prestigious southern school.
Just three days after President Donald Trump unleashed a record-breaking flurry of 26 Inauguration Day executive orders, professors at the nation’s largest historically Black college began learning their research funding was threatened, prompting exasperation and concern.
Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Raw Story through a North Carolina Public Records Law request reveal how administrators and faculty at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, N.C., navigated the cultural hot button issues addressed in Trump’s executive orders — from DEI to immigration — in an attempt to keep federal funding and protect students.
“Much like [Trump’s] first presidency, it’s just literally utter turmoil,” said Marybeth Gasman, executive director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions.
(Yes, that is what people will call it – when they don’t agree with the outcome.)
“It feels like you’re in an abusive relationship, or you’re in an abusive family, and that every single day you’re dodging punches … there’s just so many fires to put out, how do you put them all out? How do you do that as a leader, and what is the impact of that on students?”
In five months since coming into office, the Trump administration has created “whiplash” and “frustration,” particularly for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving institutions with its attacks on higher education, Gasman said.
In March, Trump signed an executive order beginning the process of dismantling the Department of Education. The administration canceled billions of dollars in research grants and withheld funds from elite universities such as Harvard, accused of antisemitism (Harvard sued the administration in April for what it says is the “flatly unlawful” withholding of research dollars).
Researchers, science groups and states have been pushing back too — the National Institutes of Health began reinstating 900 grants after a Massachusetts judge ruled the cancelation of some of it grants on diversity-related topics to be “void and illegal.”
Still, the strain on higher education institutions hasn’t “died down at all,” with universities going to great lengths to comply with executive orders to keep their research funds and are “really, really worried about how to protect students,” particularly as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement partners with some universities to crack down on illegal immigration,” Gasman said.
A spreadsheet tracking grants affected by executive orders was shared as a part of the public records request, revealing 12 terminated grants, four projects with orders to “cease DEI activities,” and two stop work orders that were lifted, as of April 3. The awards totaled more than $6.1 million.
Spokespeople for North Carolina A&T acknowledged Raw Story’s request but did not respond to questions by the time of publication.
‘This is sad’
Kathleen Liang, a professor of sustainable agriculture, emailed colleagues, the university’s provost and a national program leader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture on January 23 with concerns about “many DEI contents” being challenged in a research project focused on “public investment assessment related to Environmental Justice.”
Liang also shared a message from a USDA colleague with university leadership, looking for guidance on writing a research proposal about socially disadvantaged farmers, due the following month.
“USDA is re-evaluating all funded projects and proposals with DEI components … We are HBCU, and many of our projects serve minority and socially disadvantaged stakeholders,” the message said.
Tonya Smith-Jackson, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, acknowledged Liang’s concerns, saying “as they continue to pile on, we are also monitoring the situation and seeking more information to understand direct and indirect impacts.”
Liang, also director of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, a partnership of three North Carolina universities, offered to “twig my proposal to meet the new executive order” but asked for confirmation that no DEI references should be in any new proposals.
“This is sad, but we have to work with the current situation,” Liang wrote.
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Just look in the mirror folks, and you can see the cause of our problem today. The sky is not the limit at this time in history.
Just pick up the pitch fork and help put the hay in the proper bin.
The question is: Did you do it to yourself by voting for 18 years of Democrats?
None of us like the “CLEAN-UP PART” of corruption; but, it has to happen because if you don’t – we won’t have a country. Plain and simple.
SUCK IT UP! We all have4 to do our part and it isn’t going to be a picnic. It has to be done.
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