Trump Administration Puts Minnesota’s Medicaid Funding on Hold Over Fraud Allegations

Liberty Check

• Attorney General Keith Ellison and Gov. Tim Walz failed to act on compelling evidence of widespread Medicaid abuse, forfeiting federal funds.
• HHS conditions matching funds on Minnesota implementing anti-fraud measures, upholding taxpayer accountability.
• Trump administration ramps up enforcement, postponing $259.5 million in payments and freezing enrollments to protect constitutional fiscal responsibility.

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett asserts federal law empowers the government to withhold Medicaid funding from Minnesota over rampant fraud. This follows President Trump’s new DOJ fraud division prompted by videos exposing abuse in the state’s Somali community.

Jarrett highlighted an estimated $9 billion in fraud across 14 Medicaid programs, with half of claims bogus or stolen.

“Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison … doesn’t know much about the law because the U.S. government absolutely has the legal authority to withhold or defer Medicaid to states that fail to stop fraud. It’s quite simple,”

Jarrett stated.

“Minnesota’s fraud central. As you point out, Liz, estimated $9 billion, probably a lot more, in fraud,”

he added.

States must enforce laws or face consequences—it’s time constitutional conservatives demand accountability from wasteful bureaucrats.

Americans deserve better.

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