Emily Kopp
Trump’s administration warned state rule on Tuesday that he plans to part with Medicaid dollars, which subsidize the health care of illegal immigrants.
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) centers warned state officials in a letter that “increases activities related to financial supervision” by strictly analyzing the Medicaid state programs in order to ensure that their beneficiaries are American citizens.
The enforcement measures will include increased control Reports from quarterly expenses From which federal expenses for MEDICID costs and a review of finance management systems of selected states are determined. CMS also reviews the principles of eligibility for gaps, with the aid of which the money flows to non -citizens and encouraging you to review their own internal controls and IT systems.
“Medicaid is not and cannot be a backdoor path to subsidize open boundaries,” said CMS administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz in a statement. “States are required to maintain the law and protect taxpayers’ funds. We provide them – CMS will not allow the federal dollars to be reversed to cover those who are not lawful.”
The action takes place after a fragment of the house of President Donald Donald Trump “One Big, Beautiful Bill”, which limits federal reimbursement for 14 states that extended Medicaid insurance on illegal immigrants, in accordance with Kaiser Family Foundation. The bill now goes to the Senate.
Some Medicaid changes They are a glue point For the Republican Senate Josh Hawley from Missouri Lisa Murkowski from Alaska and Susan Collins from Maine.
The transfer will ensure that federal money does not subsidize healthcare “for people with unsatisfactory immigration status in a manner contrary to federal law”, says the letter, citing 1996 Law This says that this is the national policy “”[i]T is a convincing interest of the government in order to remove encouragement to illegal immigration provided by the availability of public benefits ”IA Execution order February 2025 This repeated the principle that “federal payments for the States and the towns of NO, in accordance with design or effect, facilitate subsidy or promotion of illegal immigration.”
As for people who do not have qualifying immigration status, Medicaid dollars can only guarantee emergency care, a letter.
President Donald Trump repeated many times that it is vital for Medicaid dollars to reach the Americans.
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Emily Kopp is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
