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.@SecKennedy announces the Trump Administration is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota due to suspected fraud and noncompliance
X ^ | 07/21/2026 | Rapid Response 47.

Posted on 07/21/2026 5:13:00 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

.@SecKennedy announces the Trump Administration is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota due to suspected fraud and noncompliance.

"If those states want that money, they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate."

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1 posted on 07/21/2026 5:13:00 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

I prefer the words “cancel” and “revoke”.

And “Go to Hell, scumbag commie states, we are tired of you ripping off good, hard-working Americans.”


2 posted on 07/21/2026 5:25:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SmokingJoe

Gavin’s going to have a stroke over this.


3 posted on 07/21/2026 5:30:54 PM PDT by Deo volente ("Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.” -Niccolò Machiavelli)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Welfare Fraud is code words, a dog whistle, for money to fund election theft. I’d be willing to bet a significant portion of that money find it’s way in DNC coffers.


4 posted on 07/21/2026 5:31:22 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: SmokingJoe

Members of Congress and the Senate are taking funds directly from Medicare and Medicaid. The deep state is the middleman. There is no way to stop this other than some source of kinetic force.


5 posted on 07/21/2026 5:32:45 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

As one who lives in Minnesota, all I can say to Sec. Kennedy and President Trump is: Thank you! Turn off the spigot. Empty the trough. It is way past time.


6 posted on 07/21/2026 5:34:12 PM PDT by Ray Lomas
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To: Fai Mao

Yes, they have so many other avenues / vehicles at their disposal yielding big bucks for vote fraud:
USAID
Big public works projects like the CA train with unions
NGOs
Welfare


7 posted on 07/21/2026 5:35:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SmokingJoe

I voted for this.

But I did NOT vote for rfk jr to drag his backside on this and other actions.


8 posted on 07/21/2026 5:44:00 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: SmokingJoe

..and the liberal judge overturns this in 4-3-2-1...


9 posted on 07/21/2026 5:45:36 PM PDT by China Clipper ( Animals? I love animals. See? There's one there, right next to the potatoes!)
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To: SmokingJoe
California needs a full and complete independent audit of every penny provided by the taxpayers.

Or maybe not. Not sure we could handle the results.

Just assume right off the bat that for every dollar spent on public services, $0.90 is siphoned off for various NGO grifters, half of which is funneled back to Democrat politicians to keep the graft going.

That leaves $0.10 remaining to build roads and fill potholes. Which might explain why despite paying the highest gas prices and the highest gas taxes in the nation, our neighborhood roads look like they were shelled by artillery.

This also explains how people like Newsom and Bass can win elections. Despite being totally and flagrantly incompetent, powerful NGOs and public unions (with unparalleled GOTV machinery in place) are able to get (and stay) very rich with these people in power.

10 posted on 07/21/2026 5:52:29 PM PDT by Drew68
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Bigger the government spending, bigger the fraud exist".

In every country of the world this is the case.

11 posted on 07/21/2026 6:08:04 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Work is best form of worship to Gods.. per Bhagavad at ratio Geeta, the Hindu sacred book. )
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To: SmokingJoe

Some judge will force him to reinstate the money. It may have already happened. If not, it’s certainly in the works.


12 posted on 07/21/2026 6:43:17 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: SmokingJoe
@SecKennedy announces the Trump Administration is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota due to suspected fraud and noncompliance.

Suspected fraud?????

In both MinneSomalia and Kalifornia, it would be easier to list what is NOT fraudulent.

13 posted on 07/21/2026 7:47:54 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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