Trump admin moves to resume sharing Medicaid data with ICE
Source: Politico
11/21/2025 07:14 PM EST
SACRAMENTO, California — The Trump administration on Friday informed a federal judge it intends to resume giving immigration officials access to personal information about Medicaid recipients from 22 states, over objections from Democratic state attorneys general.
The notice from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services opens the door for the administration to potentially resume transferring tranches of confidential Medicaid data, including phone numbers, addresses and immigration statuses, to Immigrations and Customers Enforcement as soon as next month.
It comes despite California and 21 other states suing in July to prevent the transfers and initially winning a temporary freeze, though states will have another opportunity to challenge the move at a court hearing scheduled for Dec. 9. Justice Department attorney Michael Gerardi said during a court hearing Friday that the CMS notice, as well as a related Nov. 17 ICE memo, met court-imposed requirements to resume sharing Medicaid info with immigration officials.
His arguments came in response to a preliminary injunction handed down in August from San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria. Chhabria’s order temporarily blocked Medicaid data from being shared for immigration enforcement but said the injunction would be lifted 14 days after the agencies completed a “reasoned decisionmaking process.”
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