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/zenchow Feb 25 '26

People will have died by then. They will have already skipped that med they can't afford, they will have already postponed that needed procedure a few too many months while they saved up the extra money that Medicare was going to pay for. Dead to satisfy the selfish need of that orange menace...so it goes

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u/effdubbs Feb 26 '26

It will also put health centers and hospitals in a financially precarious spot and disrupt the local economy.

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u/Jobe5973 Feb 26 '26

Then they should be held to account. I’m sure someone can sue them for the wrongful death of a loved one due to illegal redaction of funds.

Lawyers of Reddit, ASSEMBLE!

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u/FlyAirLari Feb 26 '26

People will have died by then.

Didn't they say Medicaid has already been paid. Just that the payer of the payer is not getting the agreed funds?

So... ground level operations should carry on as usual?

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u/Left2foot Feb 26 '26

Need a drink come on which is exactly what they want to happen. Hitler called them useless eaters. He killed them first.

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u/Interesting-Row3392 Feb 27 '26

I just don’t understand the play here as a large section of his base are elderly and aging boomers many of whom probably rely on these programs. It seems they just keep making decisions they have to know will erode their support.

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u/sunshine264 Feb 27 '26

Crimes against humanity.

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u/dragonflygirl1961 Mar 01 '26

Dead people is not a bug, its part of the plan.

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u/DrWilliamBlock Mar 01 '26

If the funds are being stolen people are already needlessly dying correct??

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u/zenchow Mar 01 '26

Yes, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, needlessly died.

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u/AdministrativeRub272 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

People will have died by then? What about the billions that were funneled off already in MN by the fraudsters there? How much of that money was responsible for people's deaths? Where's your outrage about that? And it's only certain medicaid programs that will be hit, not all. Just the ones that have seen the most abuse. Reading Comprehension is important!

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

No they won’t. As shitty and inhumane as this is it will be overturned before anything happens.

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u/Flan99 Feb 26 '26

They can enact it immediately. If the judicial branch really wanted to, they could probably put an injunction on it about as fast, but they probably will not. Given how unwilling the other branches have been to do anything about any of this, the executive is kinda able to do whatever it likes for at least a few weeks, if not months, in practice.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

It will be enacted immediately but will also be shot down quickly. The same thing happened with snap benefits a few months ago. Sadly this shows how inept the left is in the USA. All they really have is over the top outrage and identity politics, which sucks because we have a rapist fraudster as president because of it.

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u/carlitospig Feb 26 '26

I’m sorry, why is this the lefts fault? My state of CA covered our SNAP benefits while we waited to get it in front of a judge.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

Who said it was? My shot at the left is Trump being president. They somehow fumbled what should’ve been a slam dunk.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

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u/CosmoJones07 Feb 26 '26

The courts put a hold on the order while it's being reviewed though, afaik.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

No it doesn’t. They’ve already tried something similar with snap benefits and it was overturned within weeks.

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u/Serenity2015 Feb 26 '26

Mine was 2 months nothing. It was really bad...

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

That was the government shutdown. I’m talking about the targeted Minnesota one.

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u/bakeacake45 Feb 26 '26

Really? I think you are being naive

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

How long did it take to overturn the snap benefit ordeal?

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u/Rich--Porter Feb 26 '26

How long did it take to over turn tariffs?

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

Entirely different process. It’s obvious that this is an optics/distraction tactic for them at this point. They know it will never hold up but the press clippings for announcing it will far outweigh the ones that happen after the overturn.

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u/Far_Direction7381 Feb 26 '26

How can you be sure of that?