{"id":407802,"date":"2026-07-22T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407802\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:56:09","slug":"trump-admin-pauses-1-billion-in-medicaid-payments-to-california-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407802\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admin Pauses $1 Billion in Medicaid Payments to California, Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat who ran alongside Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, said the move \u201cisn\u2019t about fraud &#8211; it\u2019s about cutting your healthcare so that Trump can afford the tax cuts he gave to billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cThey\u2019re cutting more money in healthcare than they\u2019ve prosecuted for fraud,\u201d Walz <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/2079622267307258033\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted<\/a> on X. \u201cThe math doesn\u2019t add up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of a broader, albeit targeted, fraud crackdown<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The Trump Administration has led a broad crackdown on alleged fraud in federal programs that has appeared to focus on Democrat-led states. In February, Kennedy, Oz, and <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/04\/03\/trump-vance-fraud-czar\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vice President J.D. Vance<\/a> announced a government-wide initiative to \u201ccrush fraud\u201d in health care programs like Medicaid. Kennedy has said that the campaign is aimed at preventing improper payments instead of recovering them after the fact, with the Administration increasingly using payment deferrals and pre-payment reviews of Medicaid claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat who ran alongside Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,13482,92982,1695],"class_list":["post-407802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-news-desk","tag-overnight","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}