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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 Servicesfound 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 treatmen

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