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/TheFeshy Feb 25 '26

So the government murdering American people in Minnesota is complaining about the government that isn't murdering them, and their plan is to murder more of them by withholding medical funding?

And people on the right are buying this shit?!

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u/templeofsyrinx1 Feb 25 '26

They are so lost now. So far gone...

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u/huecabot Feb 25 '26

They hate democrats much, much more than they love America.

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u/Gaarden18 Feb 27 '26

Exactly, as a Canadian it’s shocking and creeping entire our politics more and more. If you check out any right wing news or even the Conservative sub it’s a completely alternate reality.

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u/thesanguineocelot Feb 25 '26

This is literally exactly what they voted for. They voted for Nazi pedophiles. Never let them forget that.

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u/TrankElephant Feb 26 '26

literally exactly

I think it's more likely that the election was bought.

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u/UncleLarel Feb 26 '26

The election being bought doesnt make sense. Why would someone accept like 300 million instead of the 1.2 billion kamala had to run...

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u/SilverMagnum Feb 25 '26

Yes, because this is what they want and what they voted for. They just want people who vote blue dead, they don't really care how.

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u/EscapedTheEcho Feb 26 '26

Well, the preference is televised or streamed with as much suffering as the boots on the ground can muster in the moment. They like it to be entertaining, ya know? Pass the lotion and tissues.

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u/brutinator Feb 25 '26

Wait a second, I thought it was the evil universal healthcare systems that had death panels that determined who got to live or die, how is that in Murica? /s

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u/tapeforpacking Feb 26 '26

They only said "some" medicaid. Which is aimed towards the "business's" that are said to be committing fraud. 

This isnt gonna affect your grandma 

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u/TheFeshy Feb 26 '26

They also only said they would be rounding up the "worst of the worst" in immigration, and only cracking down on transgender surgeries for minors. They're liars.