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FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is planning to claw back over $1 billion in federal Medicaid dollars they say are being spent by blue states on healthcare for illegal immigrants, including some with violent criminal records for murder and rape.
A preliminary audit by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that over the last few years, mostly during 2024 and 2025, California, Washington, D.C., Illinois, Washington, Colorado and Oregon, improperly spent a combined $1,351,204,127 in federal Medicaid funds to help pay for healthcare for illegal immigrants.
While federal Medicaid dollars are supposed to be prohibited broadly from being used to cover healthcare for illegal immigrants, they can be used by states for emergency treatment regardless of a patient’s citizenship or immigration status. States can also legally cover health insurance for illegal immigrants, so long as it is only done with state tax dollars. But, according to some experts, Democrats are utilizing loopholes in the federal laws that allow them to provide comprehensive health benefits to illegal immigrants.
“Protecting Medicaid from waste, fraud, and abuse isn’t optional—it’s the law. Every dollar misspent on illegal health care spending is a dollar taken from vulnerable Americans,” CMS spokesperson Emily Hilliard, told Fox News Digital. “Federal law forbids using Medicaid funds for illegal immigrants, yet several Democrat-led states did it anyway. The Trump Administration won’t tolerate it. CMS is auditing aggressively, recovering every dollar, and holding states accountable.”
DR. OZ ACCUSES DEMOCRATS OF ‘GASLIGHTING’ AMERICANS OVER $1B IN MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
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