{"id":85810,"date":"2026-02-26T06:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/tim-walz-accuses-trump-of-withholding-259m-in-medicaid-funds-to-punish-blue-states-live\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:00:25","slug":"tim-walz-accuses-trump-of-withholding-259m-in-medicaid-funds-to-punish-blue-states-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/tim-walz-accuses-trump-of-withholding-259m-in-medicaid-funds-to-punish-blue-states-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Walz accuses Trump of withholding $259m in Medicaid funds \u2018to punish blue states\u2019 \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4a1e8b1c9ad93f19fe83cb10877596f9f2f0065d\/559_0_5591_4473\/master\/5591.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctbGl2ZS5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=4d7add748d1a53b2492beb25930db713\" alt=\"Tim Walz accuses Trump of withholding $259m in Medicaid funds \u2018to punish blue states\u2019 \u2013 live\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Tim Walz accuses Trump of withholding $259m in Medicaid funds \u2018to punish blue states\u2019 \u2013 live<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Democratic governor of Minnesota says administration\u2019s federal withholding of $259m \u2018has nothing to do with fraud\u2019Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxA newly revealed diplomatic cable calls on US diplomats to work against attempts by foreign nations to regulate how US tech companies handle their citizens\u2019 data, as \u201cdata sovereignty initiatives\u201d gather steam in Europe over security concerns.More from Reuters:President Donald Trump\u2019s administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies\u2019 handling of foreigners\u2019 data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters that such efforts could interfere with artificial intelligence-related services.Experts say the move signals the Trump administration is reverting to a more confrontational approach as some foreign countries seek limits around how Silicon Valley firms process and store their citizens\u2019 personal information &#8211; initiatives often described as \u201cdata sovereignty\u201d or \u201cdata localization.\u201c Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/25\/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-us-politics-iran-latest-news-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Tim Walz accuses Trump of withholding $259m in Medicaid funds \u2018to punish blue states\u2019 \u2013 live Democratic governor of Minnesota says administration\u2019s federal withholding of $259m \u2018has nothing to do with fraud\u2019Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxA newly revealed diplomatic cable calls on US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":85811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}