Gavin Newsom (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump's Medicare and Medicaid administrator on Wednesday of inciting racial bigotry against Armenian-owned businesses in his state. "Our office is reviewing reports that Dr. Mehmet Oz targeted the Armenian American community in Southern California recently — making racially charged claims of fraud outside Armenian-owned businesses, including a popular bakery," Newsom's press office account stated on X. It echoes efforts by the Trump administration to single out the Somalian diaspora community in Minneapolis for a benefits fraud scheme that had already been prosecuted years ago by the Biden administration. "California cracked down years ago — Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law BANNING all new hospice licenses in 2021 to curb fraud. Newsom wrote, linking to reports about how the Trump administration blocked a federal crackdown on questionable hospice care payments last year.