Trump administration withholds $1.2 billion in federal Medicaid funding from California

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced on Tuesday that the Department of Health and Human Services is withholding an additional $1.2 billion in federal Medicaid funding from California.

“I’ll make this announcement today on behalf of Secretary [Robert F.] Kennedy, Health and Human Services, that we are going to defer $1.2 billion more dollars from California,” Oz told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. “They just got the note, and we’re doing that because the growth of personal care services in California, just that one little area where you’re paying someone to carry groceries upstairs for your mom, which many of you would carry groceries upstairs for your mom for free, I would think.”