Posted on 02/25/2026 2:50:32 PM PST by DFG
Vice President JD Vance announced that the Trump administration will temporarily halt certain Medicaid funding to Minnesota as part of its effort to combat rampant fraud in the state.
"We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money,” Vance said on Wednesday.
Vance explained that the providers in Minnesota have already been paid, and the Trump administration is halting federal payments that will go to the state government until it "takes its obligations seriously to stop the fraud that is being perpetrated against the American taxpayers." He made the funding announcement alongside Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, the vice president noted that the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department would be involved in the effort to uncover fraud. “There’s a whole host of tools that we have never used,” Vance said.
During the State of the Union on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that Vance would lead the administration’s “war on fraud.” The president accused some Minnesota Somalians of having “pillaged” billions of dollars from American taxpayers.
As he has taken on this role, Vance said that the Trump administration is implementing a "whole of government approach" to take fraud "seriously."
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Scuttled by a federal district judge in 3..2..1..
Make Tiny Timmy Tampon Somali turn all the tampons back over to the U.S. Government.
Well, that didn’t take long.
Just how much fraud is there? Wouldn’t Tampon Tim know?
Trot out the poor women and children. Maybe we can get them on the news for tonight.
Time keeps ticking and each day it seems to me to be on the side of the communists.
Vance already making moves. This ain’t gonna be a ghost operation, I’m sure of it.
Why not just make Minnesota payback all teh fraud that was stolen.
Maybe because with holding is faster and easier..just a guess
Perhaps the mess in MN is just a warm-up for CA, this is going to be fun. Illinois too, NY is going to hang itself anyway, best to just get out of the way.
If in fact this is real, (which I doubt), then it’s a giant FU to the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down Triangle Head™ fraud in Minnesota and should have been instantly met with the arrest, at 3AM by SWAT teams, of Tampon Timmy, his filthy lieutenants and every Somali scumbag - including Omar - involved in ripping us off. That is the only way the games that leftist filth play will quickly end.
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