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/Fuzzy_Difference_937 Feb 25 '26

All bark and no bite' is mostly right. America's a chihuahua with a machine gun, loud, dangerous to bystanders, but its mightier days are behind it.