Editorial: Feds target Vermont for fraud within its Medicaid programs

Editorial: Feds target Vermont for fraud within its Medicaid programs

Vermont is one of 10 states recently targeted by the GOP-controlled U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The effort is allegedly to eradicate fraud in the state’s Medicaid program. It’s mostly bogus. “Mostly” because it’s well-known Trump is out for retribution against “blue states,” defined as any state that voted against him in the 2024 election, for potential cuts in federal funding. Cuts in FEMA funding to blue states, like Vermont, …