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It's Wednesday, july first, and this is Morning Wire The Justice Department takes on dark Marxist money in a first of its kind investigation. So now the Justice Department is investigating Singham and his nonprofits for moving money and creating networks to sow discord in the United States of America And authorities suspect billions more in government fraud after a million phantom Obamacare enrollees were found on the books. Of the people who signed up, forty percent never used the insurance, and these brokers were able to make a ton of money off the American taxpayer. Thanks for waking up with Morningwire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know The Supreme Court wrapped up its term today with two blockbuster decisions. The justices handed conservatives a major win on women's sports, but dealt President Trump a major defeat on birthright citizenship. Here to break it all down is Cabot Phillips, host of Wired in. So Cabbot, let's first start with the birthright citizenship case that didn't really come as a surprise, but still a major blow for the president Yeah, just to recap, this was Trump versus Barbara. and as expected, the court sided firmly against the president, affirming that any child born on U S. soil is an American citizen reggardless of why or how long their parents were in the country. That means the children of illegal immigrants as well Trump's argumentation hinged on the wording of the fourteenth Amendment, which says, quote, All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. The presresident says this means you can be born in the U.S, but not necessarily be subject to the jurisdiction of the US But the majority of the court disagreed with justustices Amy Con Barret, Bret Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Roberts siding with the Liberal Justices for a sixty three ruling. though we'll get into it a bit, Brett Kavanaugh not agreeing that it was a violation of the Constitution The remaining consonservative justices each penned their own dissents. Alito's dissent leaned on the concept of allegiance, saying that, quote, subject to the jurisdiction of requires full undivided allegiance. It's not satisfied by simple physical presence in the US. For his part, Thomas pointed out in his dissent that the fourourteenth Amendment actually had a narrow purpose initially He said the amendment was, quote, designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks and that it has instead, quote, been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support He also underscored that it applied specifically to people already, quote domiciled in the United States, in other words, people who had no other homeland. And there was a little drama on that point. Justice Jackson's concurring opinion included a rather pointed jab at Thomas's historical argument, insinuating that race was at the heart of the matter. She said, quote, despite his longstanding endorsement of a colorblind constitution Justice Thomas now surprisingly suggests that the citizenship clause was a race conscious remedial measure Bret Kavanaugh actually had the most interesting vote. Despite voting with the majority, as I said, to uphold birthright citizenship He disagreed with the majority reasoning saying that he agreed that the fourteenth Amendment provides grounds for qualifying citizenship Congress would need to be the ones to specify the various carveouts. Now the second major ruling we had yesterday related to women's sports, we had Little versus Heacocks and West Virginia versus BPJ. What did those cases find? Yeah, so this decision covered two suits brought by biologically male athletes who sued their respective states, Idaho and West Virginia for preventing them from playing on girls' sports teams Mortningwire actually spoke with one of the attorneys involved in this case, Kristen Wagner from Alliance Defending Freedom. Here's what she had to say about the case and the arguments before the court In twenty twenty, the first state passed a law to protect women's sports after legislators saw around the nation that women were losing podium spots and trophies and roster spots. And so states decided to do something about it. and twenty seven states passed laws to protect women and girls. Two of those states, Idaho and West Virginia passed those laws and the ACLU sued those states So essentially, the court' holding was whether states can protect the women's category by ensuring that only women are competing Now, is this like the Dobbs ruling where now states can just make the rules that they want? No, actually. This ruling addresses the specific issue of biological sex itself. Here's Wagner elaborating on that There were two claims before the court. One involved a federal statute called Title Iine. The other involved the equal prrotection Clause. The court's decision resoundingly says very clearly, even all nine justices agreed that under Title Iine, states have the right to make sure that the female category is for females and that sex is the clearest, most objective and workable way to ensure equal opportunities under that federal statute. The next cases that you will see being litigated through the system is whether unwilling, intransigent states can be forced to protect women and girls Well, this has been a defining issue of the twenty thousand twenties. It was a matter of time before it made it to the High Court. Kaba, thanks for reporting. Absolutely You know it's officially summer when your schedule somehow gets even busier, even though school iss out. Between camps, vacations, park days, pool days, and trying to keep up with everything else, it's really easy to find yourself eating whatever iss most convenient. 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Because he's not really a household name here No, he's not Georgia, but he has become one of the most influential political funders on the far left So he's a software entrepreneur who funded the IT consulting company ThoughtWorks. And he sold it back in twenty seventeen for just shy of a billion dollars. Well, since then, he has devoted much of that fortune to funding a broad network of NGOs, media outlets, and extremist groups all around the world Now, while Singham was born in the United States, he lives primarily in China, and as you said, he openly identifies as a Marxist, and he has also delivered speeches praising Chinese development and invoking Mao Zi Dg's concept of a quote unquote people's war, he's even called capitalism the face of fascism This was part of a speech he gave at an event sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai last year In fact, Fascism is actually a face of capitalism and imperialism as is colonialism These are the three faces of a system that rightite now is 're getting very, very dangerous for us. The international rules based order was created by another lie which was that the fascists were all protected by the Americans and put into power in their countries in Japan and in Italy. If we want to, therefore have a new world's order that is based on multilateralism that President Xi and CPC and China have proposed, we have to undo the ideological damage that has been done by the narrative of World War two And then also part of his activist background, he's married to Jodody Evans, the co founder of the activist group Code Pink, which has long opposed American foreign policy while expressing support for communist governments, including China and Cuba Now what exactly prompted this Justice Department investigation Well, essentially, federal prosecutors in Manhattan have impaneled this grand jury to investigate whether Singham's financial network has violated federal law. So they're looking at whether money moved through donor advised funds, shell corporations, nonprofit organizations, anything that might have involved crimes such as wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering all of those financial crimes. And the investigation was reportedly authorized by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and is being handled through the U. S Atorney's offffice for the Southern District of New York because that is one of the Justice Department's premier prosecutorial offices And then there's also concerns that these activities are funding destabilizing left wing activist movements in the US Congresswoman Anna Pelina Luna addressed concerns over Singham's Network in a House Oversight commommittee hearing last year Neville Singham, regardless of what you might feel about your colleagues, has been a mechanism and funding arm of the Chinese Communist Party. He's not a registered agent by FARA and has been connected to a number of riots to include the anti Iice riots being funded in Los Angeles, as well as a group that was tied to and being investigated for the assassination of Charlie Kirk So Luna mentioned FARA there and how Chinese actors are violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act or FARA How does that fit in with Singham I mean, it's really a key concern here, Georgia. Singham lives in Shanghai. He attends CCP linked forums, and he's called for a quote unquote N world order So because of that, multiple House and Senate members, including senators Marscia Blackburn, Josh Hollley, Tom Cotton, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, they've all raised alarms that these groups act as CCP influencers without registering under FARA, which does require disclosure for those doing political work on behalf of foreign principles So they're asking why entities that have consistently promoted pro CCP rhetoric and anti US agitation aren't subject to greater scrutiny. House ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith highlighted abuse of tax exempt status to fund left wing chaos. Now that said, this is a first of its kind investigation here Though no charges have been filed, but subpoenas have been issued, so we're going to have to wait and see how this actually plays out because we're in new territory here. Well, certainly foreign influence is a growing concern for Americans. so I'm sure a lot of people want to see where this goes and if they can actually make a case. Yeah. Mean, thanks for reporting. Yep, my pleasure. join us now to discuss the Trump administration's widening crackdown on fraud is Daily Wire Eeditor in chief Brent Schurer. Brent, thanks for coming on Yeah, of course, sge So let's start with the latest from the Trump administration. We had HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy junior. and federal Medicare and Medicaid administrator, Dr. Mehet Oz, who dropped a pretty stunning number last week. They said that over a million people enrolled in the Obamacare plans had no social seecurity number on file So can you walk us through what they're actually alleging with that Yeah, right. This came out in a video. The two of them posted just the other day. The specific finding is that roughly one million broker assisted enrollments throughrough healthcareot govot Now that's the online enrollment portal for Obamacare had no social security number attached. And furthermore, there was no premium that was even being collected on those plans. So RFK and Dr. Oz are framing that combination, no ID verification and zero cost to the enrolleee as basically a blueprint for fraud Kennedy put it bluntly Why are we paying people we don't know if they actually exist And Dr. Oz pointed the finger at rogue insurance brokers allegedly enrolling people without their knowledge just to collect the commissions. And he had a pretty direct warning for them. If you're a fraudster, here's our advice to you Do not walk away from us Run Well, and this one million potentially fraudulent Obamacare enrollments is really just a small piece of this much larger picture of health carere waste, correct? Yeah, and HHS estimates that improper phantom or outright fraudulent enrollments peaked at five point six million people last year And this comes obviously at a staggering cost to taxpayers who're paying probably ten billion dollars a year. Go back to twenty twenty one for this Now Medicaid says that it's already stripped or blocked close to two point nine million improper enrollments with another two point six million still under review Now, the potential fraudulent enrollees on these government sponsored health insurance plans are just one segment of the fraud that they're now looking at. We have a wide variety of schemes involving multiple federal and state programs that have recently been uncovered across the board. Can you talk to some of the other ones we've seen? Yeah. I mean, the full breadth of the fraud is staggering. A CMS official involved in the anti fraud efforts said that just last week The Justice Department's national healthcare fraud takedown, they produced the largest number of Medicaid fraud defendants and the largest Medicaid fraud laoss ever charged in DOJ history two hundred and ninety five defendants and over five hundred eighteen million dollars in false claims that were submitted to Medicaid alone And that's separate from what we were talking about before, the broader six and a hal billion dollars healthcare fraud figure that we've reported on. This is specifically just the state run Medicaid program piece of it Now the Trump administration is basically saying, this is kind of an all hands on deck situation attacking this fraud. He's named JD Vance to lead the anti fraud task Force What kind of actions are they taking Yeah, this past week, the task force announced what officials are calling the largest healthcare fraud takedown in the country's history. four hundred and fifty five defendants charged nationwide, including nearly a hundred medical professionals tied to more than six and a half billion dollars in false claims. FBI director Cash Patel called the results of this historic. and federal officials say they've already clawed back one hundred eighty two million dollars in cash and assets. We're talking not just money, luxury cars, jewelry, just in two weeks since this big enforcement push began. I mean, it's just crazy all the million and billion dollar figures. We're reading out here. Yeah, it's an out of control situation for sure. Brent, thanks so much for reporting Yeah, of course Thanks for waking up with us. 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