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“They're saying it's going to be $250 million — taxpayers are going to have to pay to clean this up.”
On , Steven Phillips, Vice President & Global Chief Compliance Officer at PPL Corp, spoke about fraud during $250M Fraud, Omar Questions & DEI Axed in Defense Bill on Steven Phillips and The Morning Dish.
Steven Phillips, a Yale-trained physician and author, has been active in public discussions on chronic illness and public policy. In a December 2025 broadcast, he commented on a Minnesota welfare fraud case, stating that 70 people had been charged and that taxpayers would have to pay $250 million to clean it up. He also said he did not want to send money to Somalia and wanted to take care of America first. In a June 2025 appearance, Phillips spoke at a graduation ceremony for TBS, where he serves on the board of trustees, expressing pride in the graduates and noting the presence of diplomats and businessmen. In earlier appearances, Phillips discussed chronic diseases and infections. In a 2022 podcast, he described his work linking chronic diseases to infections and criticized what he called the abuse of authority in favor of profits over patients. In a 2023 talk, he said that most chronic infections do not produce overt illness in healthy people but can activate when the immune system is dysregulated by a virus or vaccine. He also described his own experience with vasospastic angina and complex migraines, which he said improved after taking vitamin K2 and nattokinase. In 2015 and 2014 interviews, Phillips argued that Lyme disease often involves co-infections and that some patients benefit from longer courses of antibiotics, and he criticized the Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines as a serious oversight.