Vance says Minnesota’s Medicaid funds halted as part of Trump’s ‘war on fraud’

JD Vance announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” more than a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid reimbursements to the state of Minnesota as part of Donald Trump’s newly announced “war on fraud”.

“What we’re doing is we are stopping the federal payments that will go to the state government until the state government takes its obligations seriously to stop the fraud that’s being perpetrated against the American taxpayer,” the vice-president said at a press conference in Washington, where he was joined by Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid.

Oz said it was the first time the government had taken such an action against a state, and said that while Minnesota was first, other states would be next.

Medicaid serves nearly 80 million low-income Americans, including children pregnant women, seniors and people with disabilities.

“It’s unponderable that you would take advantage of these precious programs,” Oz said.

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