{"id":230341,"date":"2026-05-13T19:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:36:17","slug":"jd-vance-issues-ultimatum-to-50-states-crack-down-on-fraud-or-trump-admin-will-cut-medicaid-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230341\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance issues ultimatum to 50 states: Crack down on fraud or Trump admin will cut Medicaid funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014 Vice President JD Vance is preparing to announce an ultimatum threatening to withhold federal reimbursement of Medicaid expenses to all 50 states if they <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/13\/us-news\/feds-defer-1-3b-in-california-medicaid-funding-amid-healthcare-fraud-crackdown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fail to comply with anti-fraud safeguards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vance, chairman of President Trump\u2019s anti-fraud task force, is expected to make the announcement at an event at 2 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39364982\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/newspress-collage-sof7t5gru-1778684987217.jpg\" alt=\"An image collage containing 1 images, Image 1 shows U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaking from a podium, with Administrator for the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz standing behind him\" class=\"wp-image-39364982\"  \/>VP Vance will introduce announce an ultimatum threatening states if they fail to comply with safeguards. <\/p>\n<p>The threat, which will be communicated in a letter from Health and Human Services inspector general Thomas Bell, is paired with a new nationwide audit of state-level fraud control units for the low-income medical insurance program, the Wall Street Journal reports<\/p>\n<p>The Post previously first-reported in February that the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services would withhold reimbursement of<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/25\/us-news\/jd-vance-makes-dramatic-move-withholding-minnesota-medicaid-funds-in-first-battle-of-his-war-on-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> $259.5 million in Medicaid funds for Minnesota<\/a> for 14 programs identified as having a high risk of fraud, including autism care, at-home rehabilitation, non-emergency medical transports and night supervision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON\u2014 Vice President JD Vance is preparing to announce an ultimatum threatening to withhold federal reimbursement of Medicaid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[396,22013,11749,7050,9,11,10,49,51,50,87,58],"class_list":["post-230341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-fraud","tag-health-and-human-services","tag-jd-vance","tag-medicaid","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}