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The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Trump administration sued for giving Medicaid data to deportation officials

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Robert F Kennedy Jr speaks in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 27 June 2025. Photograph: Javier Gallegos/The Advocate via AP

The Trump administration violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to deportation officials, a group of 20 states allege in a lawsuit.

Last month advisers to the secretary of the Department of Heath and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr, ordered the release of a dataset that includes the private health information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington DC to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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