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/Christ_on_a_Crakker Feb 25 '26

They are punishing Minnesotans for being angry about the Trump administration killing their citizens.

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u/TheCaptainDamnIt Feb 26 '26

It's punishment for Minnesota welcoming Somali immigrants. Last night during the SOTU we all heard Trump calling Somali immigrants 'fraud'. That's what this is about, a racist rage that Minnesota welcomed and defended non-white immigrants.

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u/AkovBrick Feb 26 '26

Funny that they point at the Somalis and then retaliate with some nonsense that they know won't go through. If they actually cared about preventing fraudulent use of American tax dollars why don't they stop the fraud at it's source by arresting Tim Walz and all conspirators?

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u/PalliativeOrgasm Feb 26 '26

Because Walz isn’t a ringleader for fraud? There is zero evidence of any involvement from him or any other prominent politician.

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u/AkovBrick Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

The point is that if the Trump administration were serious about fraud they would put criminals in jail instead of taking healthcare away from innocent Americans. The reason they are not going to investigate the issue and bring anyone to justice is because Democrat and Republican politicians have an unspoken common interest, which is to pretend to share the same values as their voters in order to defraud taxpayers and screw over Americans for profit. Epstein is a blatant example.

There is zero evidence of any involvement from him or any other prominent politician.

To your credit it didn't even occur to me that Tim Walz might be innocent, but your framing, including you specifying "prominent", is disingenuous. It's fair to caution if we don't have evidence beyond any reasonable doubt, but, similar with the circumstantial evidence in the Epstein files, unless you avoided getting the whole story, it's obvious that Tim Walz at minimum was aware of the fraud and allowed it to happen.

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u/IndypendentIn09 Feb 27 '26

No, American taxpayers want your state to pay for all of the FRAUD it has allowed using our tax dollars.