AG Ken Paxton hasn’t challenged the Trump administration over Texas’ $10-billion Medicaid cut even though he sued Biden selling Texas out so he can win over Trump. msn.com/en-us/news/other/ag-… Texas hospitals risk losing $27M/day, threatening NICUs, maternity wards, and essential services for 4M Medicaid recipients, including a third of children and two-thirds of nursing home residents. Texas hospitals learned this week that the Trump administration was currently holding up their $10 billion in Medicaid payments, the state’s attorney general and U.S. Senate hopeful Ken Paxton was noticeably silent. Three years ago, Paxton’s office was quick to come to the state’s defense when the Biden administration threatened to withhold the same type of Medicaid funding to hospitals called the Comprehensive Hospital Increase Reimbursement Program, also known as CHIRP. If Texas’ payment that year had been disallowed, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could have withheld all the CHIRP funding that year, which is the same problem Texas is facing this year. “ This is not only a win for the integrity of Texas health care, but it’s also a defeat of Joe Biden’s unlawful overreach,” Paxton said almost a year ago in a news release declaring his “major nationwide legal victory.” “This rule is just one example of the Biden administration’s misuse of CMS, which was employed to target conservative states.” But now confronted with facing off the Trump administration, Paxton has not used a tool — filing a lawsuit to retain the CHIRP funds — that has proved successful in the past even as Gov. Greg Abbott, another staunch Trump ally, has come out publicly that there’s nothing illegal about what Texas is doing to get those funds. Neither the attorney general’s office or Paxton’s political campaign have commented on the sudden halt of the money, which is costing Texas hospitals $27 million a day.