{"id":1694,"date":"2026-07-23T01:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:06:18","slug":"breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1695\" src=\"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/753170018_1031499796138194_1752643201496185283_n-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/753170018_1031499796138194_1752643201496185283_n-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/753170018_1031499796138194_1752643201496185283_n-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/753170018_1031499796138194_1752643201496185283_n-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/753170018_1031499796138194_1752643201496185283_n-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/753170018_1031499796138194_1752643201496185283_n.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If he didn&#8217;t have good reason, he wouldn&#8217;t do it.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has paused more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota while agencies review suspected fraud.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Roughly $867 million is being held from California and about $199 million from Minnesota.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>The funds will not be released until the states provide documentation showing the claims meet federal requirements.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>In California, the review focused on rapid growth in in-home care programs that far exceeded national trends.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>In Minnesota, concerns center on high-risk service areas linked to providers previously flagged for integrity issues. The U.S. attorney in Minnesota has estimated potential fraud in the state could top $1 billion.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Kennedy said states that take federal Medicaid dollars must prove every payment is legitimate.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called the action &#8220;political&#8221;.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>What&#8217;s your take?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If he didn&#8217;t have good reason, he wouldn&#8217;t do it.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has paused more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota while agencies review suspected &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[2,21,20],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-trending","tag-breaking-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-donaldtrump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}