Trump Administration Halts Minnesota Medicaid Funding Over Fraud Concerns

Vice President JD Vance and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz announced that the Trump administration is temporarily halting certain Medicaid funds flowing to Minnesota over concerns of widespread fraud in the state's program. Vance said the move is intended to ensure Minnesota 'takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money.' The action comes as the administration has taken an increasingly aggressive posture toward states it accuses of mismanaging federal healthcare dollars, and represents one of the most significant federal interventions into a state Medicaid program in recent memory.