More waste, fraud, and abuse is being targeted by the Trump admin, and this time the target is one of the biggest budget items.
Yes, medicare and medicaid is currently going to immigrants, legal and - in some states like California - illegal. This is despite the rules that have been in put in place narrowing the recipients to citizens and narrow categories of immigrants who are eligible.
The Trump administration is intensifying its efforts to limit noncitizens' access to Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program benefits, per the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), CMS has introduced an oversight initiative that supplies states with reports identifying Medicaid enrollees absent from federal databases.
'We are tightening oversight of enrollment to safeguard taxpayer dollars and guarantee that these vital programs serve only those who are truly eligible under the law,' confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
In essence, many states are doing whatever they want with federal medicaid and CHIP dollars, with many funds going to people who are ineligible by law due to their immigration status.
The oversight simply doesn't exist and this new initiative from Kennedy and HHS will begin to "safeguard taxpayer dollars" by making sure they don't go to people who are ineligible, many of whom don't belong in the country in the first place
And this isn't a tiny problem!
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 1.4 million current Medicaid enrollees fail to meet citizenship or immigration status criteria. States must now examine these federal reports, resolve immigration status inconsistencies, and uphold noncitizen eligibility restrictions. However, Democrat-run states like California, Oregon, and Colorado have broadened Medicaid access to include illegal immigrants regardless.
1.4 million people having their healthcare expenses paid on the taxpayer's dime. Citizens are funding immigrants who can't afford health insurance.
Immigrants who are supposedly a net benefit to our society, are instead a drain on citizen's tax dollars.
For now ...
The Trump-championed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), enacted on July 4, imposes stricter Medicaid eligibility rules, including work requirements for able-bodied adults, regular eligibility checks, and heightened restrictions on noncitizens. CMS administrator Mehmet Oz stressed, 'Every dollar misspent is a dollar taken away from an eligible, vulnerable individual in need of Medicaid.'
Of course, judges have attempted to stonewall after 20 states sued because Medicaid data was shared with ICE and a judge ordered an injunction last week to stop the efforts to remove aliens from the government welfare system.
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