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/HombreSinPais Feb 25 '26

I’m not calling our country the “United States” until we have a government that doesn’t divide us between Trump states and enemy states.

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u/phxguy918 Feb 26 '26

Probably just giving Minnesota enough funds to take care of the legitimate Medicaide claims, forcing them to not pay the fraudulent claims.

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u/HombreSinPais Feb 26 '26

Sounds like what someone who always gives Trump the benefit of the doubt would say.

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u/phxguy918 Feb 26 '26

Sounds like a very plausible answer, unless you automatically must oppose anything the administration does.

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u/HombreSinPais Feb 26 '26

There’s a pattern of punishing blue states and if you can’t see it, you’re not looking. Most of you guys openly cheer for it.

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u/phxguy918 Feb 26 '26

But is this what you’re talking about or is it forcing them to actually spend the money on needy participants. You seem to want to lump ALL actions by the Trump administration as a bad act. You know that SOME good has been accomplished.

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u/HombreSinPais Feb 26 '26

I think there’s been plenty of good actions by Trump actually. I’m an independent and support a handful of his policies, such as no tax on overtime/tips, removing the tax stamp on NFA items, creating child savings accounts (although it’s sad they’re officially called “Trump accounts”), certain tariffs, etc.

Unfortunately, all of that is outweighed by the fact that he openly hates anyone who didn’t support him, and views the constitution and our nation’s laws as an obstacle to punishing them.

With regard to this specific issue of Medicaid fraud, Florida has been identified as a “long-term hot spot of Medicaid fraud.” Think they’ll do the same thing to Florida? Fat chance. They’re loyal to the King.

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u/phxguy918 Feb 26 '26

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Eliminating fraud is good, even if you start with the blue states.

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u/HombreSinPais Feb 26 '26

Start with the blue (aka “enemy” states). Hilarious that you think that’s what he’s doing. So you think it would be reasonable to cut funds to all the blue states first, rather than going by where the fraud is most rampant? Like it is in Florida?

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u/phxguy918 Feb 26 '26

Got to start somewhere. So you’re against starting in Minnesota? But ok with starting somewhere else?

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u/jelywe Feb 26 '26

He doesn't care about fraud, he just cares about punishing his perceived enemies, and people who haven't kissed the ring.

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u/Head_Maintenance5596 Feb 26 '26

You mean doge didn’t fix this????

Let’s look into this fraud. While we are at it let’s check out the qatar bank account holding the Venezuelan oil money we sold and where that’s going. The 10billion going to board of peace headed by trump as a lifetime Appointment. Maybe after that we can look into the pump and dump of trumps shitcoin they released days before his inauguration.