‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

By now, when Shannon Rosa hears about cuts to Medicaid and misinformation from the Trump administration about disabled people and their families, her predominant feeling isn’t fear or sadness.

“They don’t have any idea what they’re talking about,” she said. “I think they are very successful men who have never in their lives had to even consider what invisible labor looks like.

The Trump administration announced last month that it would hold back $867m in Medicaid funding for California, joining an earlier halt of $1.34bn – totaling $2.2bn in withheld payments to the state.

Officials are also holding on to a total of $550m in Medicaid funding for Minnesota from the past three quarters.

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