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J. D. Vance: “Maine is one of the worst states in the union for fraud.”

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WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15

Published May 14, 2026 | Video Starts at 09:30

You ask yourself, why did Maine go from a state that did not have a serious fraud problem to one where I can honestly say it's Maine is one of the worst states in the union for fraud. And I'll give you two answers and two politicians. Number one is Janet Mills, and number two is Joe Biden. (09:30–09:40)

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Asserts that Maine has a significant fraud problem, ranking among the worst in the U.S.

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J. D. Vance

“People driving Lamborghinis who are getting low income assistance that's supposed to go for housing and food for our people.”
WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15 | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 00:14-00:21
“Joe Biden's administration let in tens of millions of illegal aliens all over the United States of America.”
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“Rakiya Muhammad was providing zero services and collecting $15 million over a five year period.”
WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15 | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 14:32-14:41
“There were tens of billions of dollars put into a rural health care stabilization fund.”
WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15 | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 18:47-18:55
“We have managed to take the fight to the fraudsters, we've managed to save hundreds of billions of dollars of your tax dollars.”
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“There's no confirmation that you don't have illegal aliens receiving food stamp benefits.”
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“We have people in hospice claiming hospice benefits, but who have no terminal illnesses.”
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“There's no verification of a single person. There's no confirmation that let's say a person was on food stamps and passed away, that that…”
WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15 | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 00:31-00:31
“Fraud has festered in Maine because [Paul LePage] is no longer the governor of Maine.”
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“One of the biggest problems that we have in Medicaid fraud is again, because these programs are state administered, the states have to…”
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“Fraud is exactly what happens when you've got a government that is not fighting for the American people, but is fighting for fraudsters and…”
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“One of the biggest drivers of fraudulent federal benefits is snap. It's the food stamps program.”
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“The threat to the Medicaid program is not us keeping fraudsters away from the Medicaid program. It's the fraudsters rating that program to…”
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“Under the Trump administration, we are fighting [fraud] every single day.”
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“We've seen people go out there and say that they're providing services to autistic children, when in reality, they maybe don't have any…”
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“Paul LePage doubled the number of fraud investigations when he was the governor of this state.”
WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15 | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 10:15-10:20
“Paul LePage required personal photos on EBT cards.”
WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15 | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 10:20-10:29
“We've had no cooperation from the state government.”
WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15 | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 10:59-11:05
“Janet Mills has prevented local police from working with us to get criminal illegal aliens out of this state.”
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“Janet Mills has fought back against our efforts to identify fraud in the Medicaid and Medicare programs.”
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“Medicaid reimburses people to provide interpretation services for people who don't speak English.”
WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15 | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 14:01-14:09
“That happened pretty much during the entirety of the Biden administration.”
WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15 | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 14:41-14:45
“No one in the Biden administration thought to step in and stop this ridiculous fraud.”
WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15 | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 14:45-14:51
“The same system that allowed these people to take advantage of the taxpayers of Maine, it has not been changed at all by the local…”
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“All 50 states should have what's called in MFCU, a Medicare fraud Control Unit.”
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“There is no administration in American history that has done more to make secure and safe and dependable the rural health care system than…”
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“We sent out 50 letters to every state Medicaid system all over the country.”
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“We're going to take away your money unless you get serious about fighting fraud.”
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“I suspect we are going to find hundreds of millions of more dollars every single month that we look in the state of Maine.”
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“When we have what is defined as low level fraud, let's say a person defrauds all of you for a million bucks, too many of our Department of…”
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“You're not going to get help from the governor right now. We all know that she hasn't taken fraud very seriously.”
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“So much, again, of the best stuff that we've gotten on the anti fraud task force has been from local citizen journalists.”
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“The fact that we were turning a blind eye to fraud under a million dollars meant that we weren't even looking at the people that, who are…”
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“We do see already signs in Minnesota for example, of some very sophisticated stuff.”
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“Our approach has been to go everywhere to look at everything and that's how we're going to get the fraudsters.”
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“We already have gotten a lot of them and we're to keep our pedal to the gas for the next two and a half years.”
WATCH: U.S. VP JD Vance FULL Speech in Bangor, Maine | Urgent Remarks on Fraud Enforcement | AC15 | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 30:08-30:15