Trump vows to return more than $1B misspent by illegal Blue States for Health Care
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First on fox: The Trump administration plans to hold back more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid dollars that it says are being spent by blue-collar states on health care for illegal, rapist immigrants.
Initial Audit of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services It has been found that in the last few years, especially during 2024 and 2025, in California, Washington, DC, Illinois, Illinon, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, Federal Medicaid Funds to help immigrants.
While Federal Medicaid dollars should generally be prohibited from being used to cover emergency medical care, they can be used by states for emergency treatment regardless of emergency citizenship or immigration status. States can also legally cover health insurance for illegal immigrants, as long as it is done only with tax dollars. But, according to some experts, Democrats are exploiting loopholes in Federal laws that allow them to provide full health benefits to illegal aliens.
“Protecting Medicaid from corruption, fraud and abuse is not an option — it’s a law. Every dollar spent on American spending is at risk,” CMS spokeswoman Emily Hilliard told Fox News Digital. “Federal law prohibits spending Medicaid money on illegal immigrants, but several Democratic-led states are doing it anyway. The Trump Administration will not tolerate it.”
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One day after the current government shutdown, the Trump administration released a memo opposing the Democrats who want to destroy domestic changes in the “Big, Big Bill” that aims to stop the Federal states from paying for illegal health care. (Getty/stock)
California was far and away the biggest spender, spending more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid dollars on health care for illegal immigrants, according to CMS. The next Violator was Illinois, which improperly claimed CMS about $30 million, followed by Oregon, which was improperly read and used improperly about $5.5 million.
Office of the California Gov. Gavin Newlom’s office has denied that his administration acted improperly in paying the illegal money, telling the Los Angeles Times that the claims from the Republican are “false.”
But, Steve Hilton, a former Fox News Anchor and Republican Tentirad Retikhune is the next running for California after Caliform was released, reduced California’s spending on health care that should be paid for by immigrants. Meanwhile, Chris Pope, a public health policy expert at the Manhattan Institute, argued that California is abusing federal grants that allow states to use undocumented aliens for undocumented aliens.
California Gov. Gavin Newlom looks on during a signing ceremony for legislation related to updating federal state maps on August 21, 2025 in Sacramento, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
FOX News Digital reached out to Newly’s office for comment on this story, but did not receive a response.
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“Medicaid is the largest source of federal funding for the states. It was intended to provide assistance to eligible beneficiaries, but from time to time they have found that they should be reimbursed – diverting the costs to pay for activities that are allowed and prohibited,” said the Pope. “Any claim that the Government’s health care costs do not just include some form of government funding should be viewed with suspicion.”
Jim O’Neill, the current director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, also highlights that among the illegal funds that come from violent ideologies. O’Neill has been posting “daily distributions” of examples over the last few days.
Federal Agents arrest a man after going to court in the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Court on July 1, 2025 in New York City, United States. (Mostafa Bassim / Anadolu)
On Oct. 29, O’Neill highlighted by Lamil, a 24-year-old immigrant from Iraq, was convicted of exposing himself to another impressive, 16,000 in taxpayer-funded health care. The day before, Oneill highlighted the case of Haisam MaSsalkhy, a 45-year-old illegal alien from Lebanon, who was convicted after driving under the influence and killing a US citizen who was running. Massalkhy received more than $30,000, according to O’Neill.
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Other illegal aliens O’Neill includes are people convicted of attempted murder and child rape.
“Democrats want continued funding for this violent Michigan medicaid as a condition of opening the government and paying its hard-working employees in my department.
