Vance says Minnesota’s Medicaid funds halted as part of Trump’s ‘war on fraud’
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The Trump administration, led by JD Vance, announced a temporary halt to over $250 million in Medicaid reimbursements to Minnesota, citing a "war on fraud." The action, announced at a Washington press conference, is the first of its kind against a state, according to Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. Oz indicated that other states could face similar actions in the future. The administration claims the halt is necessary to compel Minnesota to address fraud within its Medicaid program, which serves nearly 80 million low-income Americans. The federal payments will be stopped until the state government takes its obligations seriously to stop the fraud.
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