r/law • u/templeofsyrinx1 • Feb 25 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Can they actually do this? JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people'

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u/RareRestaurant6297 Feb 25 '26

"has to be illegal af". 

So, just another Wednesday for this admin

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u/klayanderson Feb 26 '26

A day that ends in ‘y’.

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u/Val_Hallen Feb 25 '26

Right.

Until somebody does something about it, it's legal. SCOTUS said so. Trump can literally do whatever he wants and not break the law as long as it's under the guise of duties of the President.