The Trump administration will withhold more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota after audits revealed fraud in federal health care programs. On July 21, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Mehmet Oz, head of the Federal Health Insurance and Medicaid Services Center, announced that they would suspend disbursements of more than 800 million US dollars to California and nearly 200 million US dollars to Minnesota.

The Trump administration will withhold more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota after audits revealed fraud in federal health care programs. On July 21, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Mehmet Oz, head of the Federal Health Insurance and Medicaid Services Center, announced that they would suspend disbursements of more than 800 million US dollars to California and nearly 200 million US dollars to Minnesota.