WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance introduced Wednesday that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud considerations, as a part of what he described as an aggressive crackdown on misuse of public funds.
Medicaid is the U.S. well being care security web for low-income Americans. As of late 2025, practically 70 million folks had been enrolled nationwide.
Vance, who made the announcement with Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, stated the administration was taking the motion “in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people’s tax money.”
Wednesday’s transfer is a component of a bigger Trump administration effort to highlight fraud across the nation. That effort comes after allegations of fraud involving day care facilities run by Somali residents in Minneapolis prompted an enormous immigration crackdown within the Midwestern metropolis, leading to widespread protests.
In January, Oz posted a video on social media alleging billions of {dollars} in hospice and residential care fraud in Los Angeles. He got here below fireplace from California Democrats for the video, by which he stood in entrance of an Armenian bakery whereas suggesting with out offering proof that a lot of the fraud was “run by the Russian Armenian mafia.”
Vance stated in an interview on Fox News Channel earlier Wednesday that the Justice Department and Treasury Department would even be concerned within the effort, and could be taking a look at tax data to uncover fraud.
“There’s a whole host of tools that we have never used,” Vance stated.
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