Eric Eggers says the fraud problem isn’t hard to find.
The bigger question is whether government actually wants to find it.
The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) vice president told Perry Atkinson his group’s state-by-state review of Medicaid enforcement found a striking gap in resources — and priorities.
Minnesota had just 31 employees dedicated to Medicaid fraud investigations in 2025, Eggers said, compared with 60 to 80 in Arizona.
Minnesota also employed 36 groundskeepers and more than 31 executive staffers tied to Gov. Tim Walz.
“So it’s obviously not a priority,” Eggers said. “It’s not something that they take very seriously.”
GAI’s analysis also found Republican-led states were more likely to pursue suspected Medicaid fraud criminally, while Democratic-led states leaned more heavily on civil enforcement.
Eggers is applying the same scrutiny to the November midterms.
Eggers said Trump’s Justice Department, led on election issues by Harmeet Dhillon, is preparing to send roughly 1,000 federal election monitors into key jurisdictions while the Department of Homeland Security uses federal funding as leverage to demand cleaner voter rolls and basic ballot reconciliation.
“The more eyes the better,” Eggers said.
He pointed to Milwaukee’s long history of election-management problems — including the 2020 flash-drive fiasco and the 2024 hand recount of more than 31,000 absentee ballots — as exactly why transparency matters.
“The lack of transparency is what drives suspicion,” he said.
Eggers also cited New Jersey’s recent admission that a software problem improperly placed thousands of noncitizens on voter rolls after federal officials raised questions about tens of thousands of possible database matches.
As for the stalled SAVE Act, Eggers sees politics — not the Constitution — as the real obstacle.
“To me, the issue is not constitutional, it’s political,” he said, noting lawyers are already exploring a REAL ID-based workaround.
His message heading into the midterms is simple: fraud thrives where scrutiny is weakest.
Trump’s DOJ is on the case.
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