Original Date Announced

AP reports that advisors to the Health Secretary ordered the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide DHS with personal data, including the immigration status, of millions of Medicaid enrollees. The dataset includes information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington, and Washington, D.C. The Department of Health and Human Services has declined to answer why the data was shared with DHS and how it would be used.

Trump 2.0 [ID #1815]

Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.07.01 Complaint - State of California v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The California Attorney General, leading a multistate coalition, filed suit against HHS and DHS after HHS' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shared state Medicaid data files, which contain personal health records representing millions of individuals, with DHS and DOGE. The coalition alleges that this information-sharing violates privacy and other federal laws. Plaintiffs ask the court to declare the data transfer unlawful; to enjoin HHS from transferring further data and DHS or any other federal agency from using the data for immigration enforcement or surveillance; and to order the destruction of all data already disclosed to DHS and DOGE. State of California v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 3:25-cv-05536 (N.D. Cal.).

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Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.07.18 Reported: Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE - CNN

CNN reports that ICE will be granted access to personal data, including names, addresses, ethnicities, and Social Security numbers, of 79 million Medicaid enrollees under a secretive agreement with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Officials claim the goal is to prevent improper Medicaid use by undocumented immigrants, but the agreement confirms that "ICE will use the CMS data to allow ICE to receive identity and location information on aliens identified by ICE."