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Posted on 07/21/2026 8:29:06 AM PDT by DFG
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he’s stopping more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota over suspected fraud.
“We are not sending Medicaid dollars out the door until we have confidence that they are being spent lawfully and appropriately,” Kennedy said at an announcement on Tuesday.
Kennedy said if California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) want the money to fund low-income healthcare, “they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate.”
Kennedy blamed the Biden administration and the Democratic leadership in both blue states for alleged misuse of taxpayer dollars.
“Instead of protecting your money, they open the floodgates to theft,” Kennedy said. “They dismantle basic program integrity and oversight.”
The clampdown is part of a broader Trump administration effort to go after waste, fraud and abuse.
Just a month ago, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced 455 people were charged for $6.5 billion in healthcare fraud schemes.
The feds say this was the “greatest combined federal and state effort in combating health care fraud in history,” charging individuals who used taxpayer-funded programs to pay for lux lifestyles.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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Wooheeeee...and here we go....
heck yeah!
Federal judge ruling against this order in 5... 4... 3....
buy stock in popcorn, because this is gonna get fun....
Hell yeah!!
As a Commiefornian I say good! Even though Navin and his merry band of Communists will raise my taxes.
Exactly, we need to have transparent accountability for ALL taxpayer funds - it’s not too much to ask that states keep track of every penny.
Don’t forget the follow up player referrals to the DOJ.
HOORAY RFK Jr.!
My guess is that a court will reverse that decision. I think it’d rule that the Secretary is interfering in Congressionally authorized funding.
Corporate CEOs and CFOs have to attest to the accuracy and veracity of their income statements and balance sheets and are held personally and criminally liable if they are fraudulent in any way. Governors, public administrators and legislative budget committees should be held to the same standard.
“Transparent accountability”
Welfare data is tracked in 2 large databases in CA... and in most states, all the big states CA TX FL GA IL MI PA NY etc. by DELOITTE IES Integrated Eligibility System enrolls and manages members in Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, WIC, TANF, Sec8, LIHEAP, etc.
GAINWELL TECHNOLOGIES is the big dog for Medicaid and CHIP Children’s Health Insurance to manage PAYMENTS to CMOs Care Management Organizations/Health Insurance companies and to PROVIDERS when no Insurance company is involved again in MOST states and all the big states.
Deloitte IES enrolls the DEAD and DUPLICATES in all welfare programs. Deloitte DEI data is a total mess. Deloitte Address data is a mess. It is difficult to know where a welfare recipient truly lives.
Deloitte is the FRAUD part of FRAUD WASTE ABUSE.
GAINWELL receives the garbage data from Deloitte. Gainwell, and lesser IT vendors like Optum, and Federal and State agency staff, and insurance companies and providers receive and process the garbage data from Deloitte. They are the WASTE part of FRAUD WASTE ABUSE.
Transparency of Deloitte and Gainwell data is true transparency. The Federal and State agency staff depend on these IT CONTRACTORS for the data.
(There are a few states, including MN SD NE KS OK MS AL OH, that do not have Deloitte IES nor Gainwell.)
The funding has been executed, The Secretary has every right to determine if it was executed legally....its the Secretary’s job to protect taxpayer’s interests.
Medicaid colonoscopy.
The way it's supposed to work is that the legislature makes the money available. The executive decides how to spend it.
...not that it matters all that much.
There is big money behind the fraud. I hate that patients who really do need the care made possible by Medicaid are caught in the crossfire. I would think there would be a way to make sure that does not happen. Considering the low reimbursement rates some legit doctors could decide the hassle of Medicaid is no longer worth it.
Probably and depending on the law the ruling could very well not be in the administration’s favor.
RFK Jr. yanks Medicaid funds to California and Minnesota, says Dems ‘opened the floodgates to theft’
Respectfully to Trump Administration, there are two layers of fraud going on here. First, so-called "federal" tax dollars for healthcare use are being stolen.
But also consider that the states have never expressly constitutionally authorized the unconstitutionally big, post-16th and 17th Amendments ratification federal government to tax and spend for healthcare purposes, crook career federal lawmakers from the time of FDR wrongly remaining silent about this MAJOR constitutional problem.
10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution [all emphases added], nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
State inspection laws, health laws, [all emphases added] and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824. (Abuse of 16A)
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen [all emphases added], under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country. —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. —United States v. Butler, 1936.
16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature. —Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Sadly, misguided 17A voters will predictably "remedy" corrupt Congress by again reelecting incumbents this year.
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