The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Vice President J.D. Vance and Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Mehmet Oz are withholding "$259.5 million in funds…until [Gov. Tim] Walz can show that the state has investigated whether the money is going to the intended recipients."
This announcement marks the first battle in the "war on fraud," which President Donald Trump declared during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Unless Trump wants this war to be as big a failure as the war on drugs and the war on poverty, Vance will have to do more than temporarily withhold $260 million in Medicaid subsidies to Minnesota.
