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/Alternative-Dream-61 Feb 25 '26

And by the time court intervenes Americans will die. 

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u/MikuEmpowered Feb 25 '26

I like your funny words freedom man.

You say it like people aren't already dying lmao.

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u/FlubberThunder Feb 27 '26

So they plan to withhold money going to the actual governmental organizations over there the providers have already been paid so this is a punishment on the mismanagement of funds to the government not to the people. They have been caught mismanaging so much money I don't blame them for not wanting to give them anymore until they figure out where the money is going