House GOP Targets $16.2B In Emergency Medicaid For Illegal Immigrants, Demands Records From 8 States

House Oversight Chair James Comer sent letters to eight Democratic governors seeking documents on Medicaid and Emergency Medicaid enrollment and costs tied to people in the U.S. illegally, citing a CBO estimate of $16.2B for emergency services over the first three years of the Biden administration. The probe requests records back to 2019 and questions potential co-mingling of funds in programs like MinnesotaCare. The push coincides with CMS directing states to run monthly immigration-status checks on Medicaid/CHIP enrollees, signaling coordinated federal scrutiny of immigrant eligibility.