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Trump Pauses More Than $1 Billion in Medicaid to 2 Blue States for Suspected Fraud

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

The Trump administration is pausing more than a billion dollars in Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota because of suspected fraud.

“That includes more than $860 million for California and over $200 million for Minnesota,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday at a press conference. “If those states want that money, they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate.”

NEW: CMS is pausing more than a billion dollars in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota because of suspected fraud and noncompliance, @SecKennedy says. @DailySignal pic.twitter.com/qkyYSVl4Ak— Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell (@TheElizMitchell) July 21, 2026

NEW: CMS is pausing more than a billion dollars in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota because of suspected fraud and noncompliance, @SecKennedy says. @DailySignal pic.twitter.com/qkyYSVl4Ak

Kennedy also announced that he is expanding the authority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of Inspector General to exclude bad actors from funding.

“We will be able to use that authority to remove bad actors from federal healthcare programs and, in many cases, to permanently ban them from returning,”........

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