DOGE Just Dumped 7 Years of Medicaid Secrets — And Anyone Can Search Them
DOGE released 7 years of Medicaid spending data publicly; Trump signed 3 housing EOs; Jack Smith's revised J6 indictment narrows around DOJ conduct; CFTC taps SEC crypto insider as chair.
HIGH ALERT
Multiple major simultaneous developments — DOGE's unprecedented Medicaid data dump, three housing executive orders, an active military conflict with Iran escalating, a landmark legal case being reshaped, and a historic crypto regulatory pivot — make this one of the most consequential single-day news cycles of the second term so far.
Key Developments
Seven years of Medicaid data — every payment, every provider, every dollar — just landed on the public internet.
That's where today's briefing starts, because **no administration has ever done anything quite like this**.
The Department of Government Efficiency released the entire dataset on Friday, covering 2018 through 2024, and made it searchable so that any American — journalist, watchdog, or just a curious taxpayer — can look for themselves.
Elon Musk had been saying for months that he believed there could be a trillion dollars in fraud lurking inside federal spending.
Now Newsmax is reporting that DOGE's estimate of improper payments government-wide runs somewhere between $233 billion and $521 billion per year.
That's not a typo.
The Medicaid dump is the first time any of that data has been made publicly accessible at this scale, and the reaction on X was immediate — supporters called it the most transparent government act in a generation, while critics asked why it took this long and whether patient privacy was protected.