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“Working with the White House and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, we recovered more Medicaid dollars outside of multistate settlements last year than any year in the past decade.” - Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador participates in a May 2026 National Police Week roundtable at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., alongside Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and other officials. (Photo courtesy of the Idaho Attorney General’s Office)
GOVERNMENT + POLITICS
Idaho AG Labrador touts state’s Medicaid fraud recovery at D.C. roundtable with VP JD Vance
By Laura Guido
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador has asked U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other top federal officials for broader access to Medicaid data to further fraud investigation and recovery.
A combine harvests corn on an Illinois farm in the fall. (Photo courtesy of Lance Muirhead/Muirhead farms)
AGRICULTURE
Trump struck a deal for China to buy $17B a year in US ag products. Some farmers are skeptical.
By Rebecka Pieder
In a deal that could provide a major trade boost for American farmers, the White House said that during the recent summit, China committed to buying at least $17 billion in additional U.S. agricultural products annually for three years.
But Beijing has not confirmed the figure and farm groups expressed skepticism that the deal would materialize.
“I think we are cautiously optimistic when it comes to these things because we’ve been on both sides of this equation. You know, the first time we went through the tariff crisis, we lost 20% market share,” said Todd Main, director of market development at the Illinois Soybean Association.
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