RFK Jr pauses $1bn Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota

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The Trump administration has paused more than $1bn in Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota, citing suspected fraud and noncompliance" - withholding of funding that follows a $243m pause in Medicaid payments to Minnesota earlier this year.

If those states want that money, they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate," said Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said at a press conference on Tuesday.