Trump Holds Hostage $1 Billion in Medicaid Funds

Trump's brokers got rich off private prison stock as ICE deaths hit a record, the CDC detained 13 Americans with no Ebola exposure, and the Army cut lawyers for wounded soldiers

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The Trump administration froze more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota over fraud claims it hasn’t substantiated. Trump’s brokers have made 29 trades of private prison stock since he took office, as both companies posted record profits off his immigration policy. T…