The Trump Administration is, evidently, done playing games with the far-left sanctuary cities and states that have done so much to allow the illegal immigration situation to spiral almost out of control. As such, it is slamming the door shut on federal funding to those places that aren’t doing enough to stop fraud or follow the law, with Tim Walz’s Minnesota bearing the brunt of the crackdown.
Such became clear when Vice President JD Vance and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz announced that nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in federal funding for Medicaid is being shut off over Minnesota Medicaid spending in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025 alone showing a whopping $243.8 million in potentially fraudulent claims.
So, JD Vance announced, the tap is being shut off until the state gets its act together. He said, “We have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are 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’s tax money.”
Dr. Oz, commenting on the scheme by which much money was stolen, said, “There is a fraud scheme in Minnesota where criminals, soon to be criminals, pay moms $1,000 roughly in order to enroll their children as being autistic, falsely, dishonestly claiming their children are autistic, they then bill Medicaid. Is already happened, millions of dollars for services that were never rendered, never delivered by a qualified staff member.”
Continuing, and noting that migrants are largely to blame for the theft, “These schemes disproportionately involve immigrant communities. They’re insulated. They’re able to organize efforts, and sometimes they don’t understand what’s going on. And it ultimately diverts resources away from kids who truly have autism, because if every kid in the neighborhood has autism, then nobody has autism.”
Further describing the massive fraud, Oz said, “There’s one Behavioral Health Organization, Mr. Vice President, in Minnesota, they received, delivering a half million dollars in Medicaid payments. But the top Biller, the top biller submitted 450 days where they claim they’re working more than 24 hours a day. I mean, even in the White House, that’s tough. It’s hard to work more than 24 hours a day. How it didn’t get picked up is shocking to us at CMS.”
Noting the other “red flags” in Walz’s disaster of a state, he said, “There are other red flags in Minnesota, including hundreds of beneficiaries receiving treatment linked to one location, which was impossible physically. To be true, we had eight beneficiaries in one of these substance use disorder centers, eight who were already dead, but the center was still billing us. Not only did they let the person pass, they kept billing for it. That’s the level of average we’re talking about.”
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So, Oz announced, CMS is cutting off the money tap to Minnesota. He said, So CMS is done paying and chasing we don’t think jail sentences are the right way out. These criminals flee the country. Many are foreign nationals. Instead, we’re launching the largest action against fraud that we’ve ever taken. The money’s not going to ever leave the building again. We’re going to start dreaming the swamp of the crooks that have inhabited it and are defrauding us.”
Watch him describe how they’re going to do so here:
Tim Walz freaked out about the funding cut, posting, “This has nothing to do with fraud. The agents Trump allegedly sent to investigate fraud are shooting protesters and arresting children. His DOJ is gutting the U.S. Attorney’s Office and crippling their ability to prosecute fraud. And every week Trump pardons another fraudster.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video