California should freeze federal tax payments.

So CA is being targeted. I smell a lawsuit.

American politics seem to all be 'politician does something evil, doesn't get assassinated'

Oz said that the administration needs California to clarify $630 million in billing, $500 million in home health services and $200 million in “questionable expenditures” linked to coverage for undocumented immigrants, he claimed. They are not eligible for Medicaid, however.

The move is similar to the one the administration took in February suspending Medicaid payments to Minnesota.

This has nothing to do with “fraud”, and everything to do with Californian and Minnesotan resistance to the DHS and ICE incursions of their cities, and punishing their citizens for daring to vote against Trump. California’s Republican voters are just collateral damage to them:

As of 2024, California had a higher Medicaid enrollment rate than the US overall. Enrollment in the state peaked in 2023 at 38.7%

In California, enrollees are categorized into 5 different categories:

• Children
• Pregnant women and parents or caretakers
• Adults without dependent children
• People with disabilities (including both adults and children)
• Seniors (age 65 and over

https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-are-on-medicaid-in-the-us/state/california/

Californians across party lines overwhelmingly support Medi-Cal. Eighty percent (80%) of Democrats, 75% of Independents, and 62% of Republicans agree that the program should generally stay as it is today.

https://www.chcf.org/resource/poll-californian-attitudes-medi-cal-covered-ca-federal-cuts/

“Doctor” Oz is no longer just a daytime TV huckster, he’s driving the policy that removes health care from pregnant women, children, and senior citizens. These people are black-hearted, red-eyed evil - “Do what we say, or we’ll take away the taxpayer-funded healthcare you paid for.”

Just look at the glee on his fat stupid face, never seen people so happy to deprive people of things. Every decision they make is the most awful, the most punitive, the most cowardly one they could possibly make. Theyre going to find that a whole lot of libs arent anywhere near as soft as they seem to believe.

could freeze funding for their Medicaid fraud units unless they investigate and prosecute fraud by providers

lolwut?

This will last until it gets into a court room.

Weaponizing the feseral govt against some states?

The Secretary of State does not do Secretary of State things and the VP is delivering policy announcements. It used to be that job titles had specific responsibilities attached.

This will mostly hurt his supporters.

But you guys take one for the team, okay MAGA?

Vance is not president why is he doing anything like this? Isn't this Trump's job? I didn't remember any other vice president (maybeee Cheney) being this involved in doing the presidents job

My prediction: California will someday be the capital of a great nation. Vance, will have no nation left to call his own.

Even the people on r/conservative are calling this the dumbest way to handle the issue...

It's a misleading title, but it doesn't get much better if you click on it. Funny thing is they are complaining that California isn't tough on fraud. FRAUD! I mean you can't make this shit up. I thought this just means that California is now qualified to be president.

Usha deserves that ugly fuck

Can't wait to read the governor candidates responses to this.

Well California should hold all federal taxes then. Including making employers deposit employee taxes into a local fund to be released after the federal government cooperates with funding what it's supposed to and arrests the entire administration.

I'd also like a pony, while I'm dreaming.

There are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn’t taking its program seriously

I'm going to go ahead and stamp a big ol' [citation needed] on that claim. What does "California isn't taking its program seriously" even mean? I get that it's deliberately nebulous, but I'm just so tired of the constant stream of baseless claims from these ghouls. If they had any evidence they'd be parading it around on Fox News, but they don't. They never do.

Isn't that congress's choice, not the white house?

California should just suspend sending in that much in federal taxes then. Fuck Vance and rest of the ghouls in Congress and the administration.

Then California should suspend payment of taxes.

As the state is a huge (largest) contributor it sends out more than it receives anyway

Oz said that the administration needs California to clarify $630 million in billing, $500 million in home health services and $200 million in “questionable expenditures” linked to coverage for undocumented immigrants, he claimed. They are not eligible for Medicaid, however.

The move is similar to the one the administration took in February suspending Medicaid payments to Minnesota.

This has nothing to do with “fraud”, and everything to do with Californian and Minnesotan resistance to the DHS and ICE incursions of their cities, and punishing their citizens for daring to vote against Trump. California’s Republican voters are just collateral damage to them:

As of 2024, California had a higher Medicaid enrollment rate than the US overall. Enrollment in the state peaked in 2023 at 38.7%

In California, enrollees are categorized into 5 different categories:

• Children
• Pregnant women and parents or caretakers
• Adults without dependent children
• People with disabilities (including both adults and children)
• Seniors (age 65 and over

https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-are-on-medicaid-in-the-us/state/california/

Californians across party lines overwhelmingly support Medi-Cal. Eighty percent (80%) of Democrats, 75% of Independents, and 62% of Republicans agree that the program should generally stay as it is today.

https://www.chcf.org/resource/poll-californian-attitudes-medi-cal-covered-ca-federal-cuts/

“Doctor” Oz is no longer just a daytime TV huckster, he’s driving the policy that removes health care from pregnant women, children, and senior citizens. These people are black-hearted, red-eyed evil - “Do what we say, or we’ll take away the taxpayer-funded healthcare you paid for.”

Hey, James, if you're so keen on investigating fraud, you should take a look at Kalshi etc. and all the insider betting going on there.

What brings the child rapist and the rest of the Grand Old Pedophiles purpose and their greatest joy is causing the misery of others.

well that seems pretty illegal.

At some point the federal government and California are going to need separate diplomats instead of politicians because half the country’s political fights now look like two governments openly challenging each other.

So, Trump pardons a guy convicted of medicare fraud in the millions, but we gotta block medicare funds to all of California because he thinks (in his case, hopes) there might be medicare fraud somewhere there. Uh huh, not political at all

- Hey JD..
- Yes Don?
- So we are again falling short about a billion dollars in this Hormuz thing….
- Say no more…

How about California falling short of federal tax payments? They are one of the biggest payers (if not the biggest) that finances the republican flyover states...

He's not invincible.

Well, if Couchfucker and Dr Quack say there's fraud ...