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California Gov. Gavin Newsom lashed out at the Trump administration Tuesday over what his press office called a “recycled political stunt” – one that saw the administration freeze more than $867 million in federal funding earmarked for Medicaid recipients.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it would be freezing more than $1 billion in Medicaid funding earmarked for California and Minnesota, funding that would only be released, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said, once the two states “provide basic documentation showing that these services are legitimate and not fraudulent.”

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz said the Trump administration’s approach was actually “very conservative,” and that the administration could have, should they have selected to do so, “taken a lot more money.”...

Dr. Mehmet Oz was hit with a lawsuit by the owner of a family-owned Armenian meat market in California after he alleged that the small business has ties to the "Russian Armenian Mafia."

Anna Ivanyan, owner of Tigranakert Meat Market in Van Nuys, said that President Donald Trump's Medicaid services administrator damaged her reputation when he featured her business in a video posted on social media and alleged her business was involved in fraud in the Armenian community, TMZ reported.

Oz shared a video of himself driving around Los Angeles in January, pointing out and claiming widespread fraud among hospice and health care locations — specifically singling out Russian and Armenian-owned spots and saying Trump wouldn't tolerate the "mostly fraudulent" businesses. ...

Donald Trump's administration has fallen short of easing tensions with the drug industry after talks were held yesterday (February 17).

Pricing for initiatives that may benefit the pharmaceutical trade and inconsistent standards from the Food and Drug Administration have stoked anxiety within the industry, according to insiders. An industry forum led to minimal success for both the wants of the drug industry and the Trump administration.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Mehmet Oz and FDA commissioner Marty Makary both appeared at the PhRMA Forum, according to Axios, with both giving statements at the event with little in the way of success. ...

In an erratic soliloquy before he signed an executive order to bring down the price of prescription drugs, President Donald Trump took aim at the "fat shot drug" he said was an example of how Big Pharma inflates the cost of medications.

Trump was presumably talking about the popular GLP-1 drugs on the market under a variety of brand names.

"I'll tell you a story," Trump began, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz looked on. ...

During his Senate confirmation hearing Friday, Dr. Mehmet Oz was pushed to agree that a "weight loss miracle" he once pushed on his widely-viewed television show was a sham.

Dr. Oz is a cardiothoracic surgeon who was "once known as America's Doctor," according to CNN's Dana Bash. He is President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees health coverage to more than 100 million people, according to the government website.

The department sits within the Department of Health and Human Services, now led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr....

WASHINGTON — Just before Democrat Bob Casey entered the U.S. Senate a political generation ago, he railed at his incumbent Republican opponent, Rick Santorum, for selling himself out to lobbyists.

“You’ve been the Senate liaison to K Street, which is a mess, which is a place of corruption and influence peddling,” Casey said in a 2006 debate with Santorum. “And you spend a lot of time on K Street and you’ve been spending a lot of time with people that practice the politics of influence peddling on K Street.”

Fast forward to the present and Casey finds himself preparing for a closely-watched — and expensive — election battle against wealthy former hedge fund CEO David McCormick. ...