California senators demand Trump immigration officials stop using Medicaid data
- Two U.S. senators from California, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, have called on the Trump administration to halt the use of personal Medicaid information for immigration enforcement purposes as of June 18, 2025.
- Their demand followed reports that Trump appointees overruled career health officials and compelled CMS to share the data with DHS under a 54-minute deadline.
- The senators argued the data sharing posed serious ethical and legal problems, violated federal privacy laws, and targeted lawful noncitizens and mixed-status families.
- They called on DHS to delete all collected data and criticized HHS's action as a significant break from long-standing federal privacy standards, warning that it should raise concern among the public.
- The senators set a July 9 deadline for administration officials to explain the data transfer and usage, signaling potential legal and political challenges ahead.
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Senators Padilla, Schiff seek answers on potential health data use in immigration raids
Padilla and Schiff are demanding that the Department of Health and Human Services explain the legal basis for sharing such data without consent. Both Senators are questioning whether this violates federal privacy laws like the Privacy Act and HIPAA.
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California Sens. Padilla, Schiff demand Trump immigration officials stop using Medicaid data
California's two U.S. senators demanded that the Trump administration stop using personal data of millions of Medicaid enrollees as part of its sweeping deportation campaign.

California senators demand Trump immigration officials stop using Medicaid data
The Trump administration’s decision to provide deportation officials with personal data — including the immigration status — on millions of Medicaid enrollees prompted two California U.S. senators on Wednesday to demand that the data sharing “cease” and for Homeland Security…


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