California Reportedly Uses Medicaid Funds To Send Luxury Food — That You Can’t Even Afford — To Illegals Aliens

Amidst America’s grocery affordability crisis, California is reportedly spending billions of taxpayer dollars to send free luxury meals to eligible welfare recipients including illegal immigrants living in the state.

Enrollees in California’s Medi-Cal welfare program — including millions of illegals — receive free meals and groceries such as salmon, beef, organic produce and pre-prepared luxury health food brands each week, thanks to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $12 billion Medicaid reform package, “CalAIM,” a Wednesday report from City Journal found.

The Newsom’s office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

To be eligible for the food service as part of CalAIM, recipients must be enrolled in Medi-Cal and report some kind of underlying health condition such as a chronic disease or a mental or behavioral health condition, the outlet reported.

Medi-Cal then pays California-based food contractors using Medicaid funds to deliver the food to recipients doorsteps for up to 12 weeks, after which eligible recipients can reenroll, according to City Journal. One of these contractors, Project FoodBox, is the nation’s biggest biller of Medicaid code S9977, an unspecified “meals” code that includes medically tailored food. Project FoodBox raked in $67.8 million dollars from Medicaid between 2022 and 2024.