Newsom responds after Trump says California is under investigation for fraud

Gov. Gavin Newsom is responding aft President Donald Trump said Tuesday that California is being investigated for fraud.

The president said successful a station connected Truth Social that the "Fraud Investigation of California has begun," but helium did not supply immoderate specifics astir the alleged fraud.

In a connection to ABC News, Newsom's bureau said he's blocked much than $125 cardinal successful fraud, arrested criminals and protected taxpayers from scam artists.

Meanwhile, California is 1 of 5 Democrat-run states being targeted by the Trump administration. The Department of Health and Human Services said it's freezing $10 cardinal successful national funds implicit alleged fraudulent kid attraction programming.

That could unit families to wage out-of-pocket.

The different states impacted by the frost are Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York, an HHS authoritative confirmed to ABC News.

ABC News contributed to this report.