The Trump administration is taking steps to “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to Minnesota over concerns about alleged fraud in the state’s public services, Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday.
The move comes just hours after President Donald Trump declared “war on fraud” during his State of the Union address Tuesday night and that Vance would lead the charge. Trump specifically called out Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community as one of his targets.
At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the federal government would pause more than $259 million in Medicaid reimbursements for Minnesota, a publicly funded health care program for low-income Americans.