Halt to Medicaid Funding in Minnesota is attack on American Patients
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Vice President JD Vance announced that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over what he says are fraud concerns.
Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement:
“Medicaid fraud is a serious problem that requires cracking down on fraudsters – not patients.
“This administration’s anti-fraud rhetoric is itself a fraud. In fact, the administration has gutted anti-fraud government agencies and programs and let fraudsters off the hook. It has issued record-breaking pardons to fraudsters; sought to eliminate the most important anti-consumer fraud agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; eviscerated the corps of Inspectors General whose job is to root out waste, fraud and abuses; and dropped dozens of fraud and fraud-related investigations against large corporations.”
“The Trump administration suspension of Medicaid funding in Minnesota is a bad-faith, punitive and shameful measure that will punish people in Minnesota as part of the same deceptive story that the Trump administration has told to justify the outrageous ICE invasion of the state.
In early February, Robert Weissman testified at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing highlighting the myriad of conflicts of interest related to President Donald Trump and fraudulent schemes related to his administration.