House GOP probes whether NY Gov. Kathy Hochul pulled Medicaid funds to plug billion-dollar hole in state budget | 2 July 2025 | House Republicans launched an investigation Wednesday into New York Gov. Kathy Hochul purportedly withholding Medicaid funding -- including from hospitals serving the most vulnerable -- in order to plug a billion-dollar hole in the state’s budget, The Post can reveal. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), DOGE Subcommittee Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and New York GOP Reps. Mike Lawler and Nick Langworthy asked Hochul in a Wednesday letter to hand over records about the alleged "abuse of federal taxpayer funds." "This fiscal coverup has forced local governments to increase property taxes and cut local services," the Republican lawmakers wrote.