The White House is withholding $250m in Medicaid funds to Minnesota until the Democratic-led state government takes a series of as-yet unspecified “corrective actions” to prevent what Vice President JD Vance called an epidemic of fraud among the state’s Somali-American population.
”We don't want to be in a situation where the state of Minnesota is being so careless with federal tax dollars that we have to turn the screws on them a little bit so that they take this fraud seriously,” Vance said during a press conference alongside Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Mehmet Oz on Wednesday.
