Medicaid, Trump

Does Donald Trump's Funding Freeze Impact Medicaid? What We Know
Just one day after the White House announced the federal funding freeze, the Medicaid payment portal went down, according to Trump's Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Judge Stays Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze, but Disruption to Medicaid Sows Fear
Federal health researchers, nonprofits and programs for early childhood education reported that their access to federal funds had gone down, raising alarms about access to jobs, health care services,
Trump Effort To Freeze Federal Funding Sows Confusion For Medicaid, Disability Programs
The Trump administration is walking back a directive to pause trillions of dollars in government spending that bred uncertainty about the impact on everything from Medicaid to special education.
Medicaid Portals Down After Donald Trump Funding Freeze
After President Donald Trump ordered a freeze on federal grants and loans, Medicaid's portals went down Tuesday afternoon, causing recipients to panic about their health insurance coverage. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the Medicaid outage Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter, but said payments would not be impacted.
Trump and Medicaid: Everything to know about the low-income health insurance program
Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health care coverage to low-income individuals and families. It services over 79 million Americans.
Donald Trump changes his mind on medicaid
Donald Trump is in his first week back in the Oval Office and he has wasted no time putting his policies in place via executive orders. One order in particular affected thousands of athletes across the country.
Trump's federal grant pause creates confusion over Medicaid funding
The Trump administration's freeze on federal grants sparked chaos and confusion at state Medicaid agencies on Tuesday.Although the White House insisted that Medicaid, which provides health insurance to more than 72 million low-income Americans,
Mass. is suing over federal funding freeze as Medicaid system appears to be down
A judge temporarily blocked the freeze, which the White House says doesn't affect individuals, but federal payment portals ...
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Federal Funding Freeze: Should Institutions and Government Contractors Prepare for the Worst?
On January 28, 2025, reporters uncovered that President Trump’s pick to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued ...
What we can VERIFY about whether the federal funding freeze affects Medicaid
The White House confirmed the website for Medicaid payments was down a day after announcing a pause on federal grants and ...
State Medicaid payments inaccessible amid broader federal funding freeze
Karoline Leavitt confirmed Tuesday afternoon the downed portals after multiple reports from lawmakers that their states could ...
Medicaid payment systems restored in Pa. as Trump administration rescinds federal funding freeze memo
Don’t let anybody tell you this was some technical glitch,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said. “They were very purposeful ...
States say they’ve been shut out of Medicaid amid Trump funding freeze
Amid the Trump administration's abrupt, wide-scale freeze on federal funding, states are reporting that they've lost access ...
White House says Medicaid portal 'will be back online shortly' after Trump funding freeze blamed
A funding freeze ordered by the Trump administration has sparked widespread confusion about its effects on government ...
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Lawmakers report states shut out of Medicaid payment portals following Trump funding freeze
Other payment systems also appear to be offline, suggesting a broader shutdown of federal portals related to grants and ...
Maryland Department of Health working on contingencies for loss of Medicaid funding after threat of freeze
The Maryland Department of Health is actively working on contingency plans in case the state isn’t able to access Medicaid ...