{"id":410272,"date":"2026-07-24T02:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410272\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T02:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:34:15","slug":"rfk-jr-freezes-1b-in-medicaid-to-california-and-minnesota-over-fraud-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410272\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr freezes $1B in Medicaid to California and Minnesota over fraud concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">Fox News host Brian Kilmeade discusses HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. freezing $1 billion in Medicaid to California and Minnesota until they prove where it&#8217;s going on &#8216;The Five.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put a $1 billion Medicaid freeze on California and Minnesota over suspected fraud. California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejects these allegations, calling them &#8216;pure politics&#8217; and blaming the Trump administration. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz&#8217;s approval plummeted 31 points after a fraud investigation, indicating the severe political risks for ignoring such issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox News host Brian Kilmeade discusses HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. freezing $1 billion in Medicaid to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[118814,7,9,8,14019,118813,5050],"class_list":["post-410272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-fox-news","tag-news-videos","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410272","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=410272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}