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,

Reports of shuttered Medicaid portals began Tuesday morning, with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, writing by the early afternoon that his staff "had confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze."

After declining to name Medicaid as a program safe from the Trump administration's woke "freeze," press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the sites should be back up shortly.

The White House Office of Management and Budget says its program freeze is limited, but states report widespread disruption in online Medicaid portals.

Other payment systems also appear to be offline, suggesting a broader shutdown of federal portals related to grants and funding.

This safeguard now puts Medicaid expansion, which became law in the state in 2023, at risk, as congressional Republicans are reportedly considering changes to Medicaid to fund immigration initiatives and tax cuts desired by President Donald Trump.

Democratic lawmakers in states including New York, Illinois and Oregon reported issues accessing portals for Medicaid and other social programs, hours after President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo pausing federal aid.

The online system for federal health funding now warns of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration announced a freeze.

"The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an X post. "We have confirmed no payments have been affected -- they are still being processed and sent. We expect the portal will be back online shortly," she added.

Amid the Trump administration's abrupt, wide-scale freeze on federal funding, states are reporting that they've lost access to Medicaid, a program jointly funded by the federal government and states to provide comprehensive health coverage and care to tens of millions of low-income adults and children in the US.

Karoline Leavitt confirmed Tuesday afternoon the downed portals after multiple reports from lawmakers that their states could not get access to Medicaid dollars.