'White House is aware': Press secretary responds to reports of Medicaid site outage
White House claims Medicaid payments won’t be affected by funding freeze
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took to social media to clarify that state Medicaid portals are still being processed despite any outages.
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Medicaid outage raises concerns, but White House assures payments remain unaffected
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.
Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant.
As the White House paused federal grants and loans in a far-reaching executive order, early childhood education centers and states discovered Tuesday they could no longer access money they rely on to provide care for some of the nation’s neediest families and children.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Social Security, Medicare and food stamps would not be affected by the decision to freeze federal aid. NBC News’ Sahil Kapur reports on the Trump administration’s first White House press briefing and whether Medicaid could be among the programs affected.
The grant pause is perhaps most similar to a federal government shutdown, when a congressional impasse on spending legislation delays federal payments for some state and local services.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during her first press briefing, faced a barrage of questions on the administration's freeze on federal aid programs.
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Trump's forthcoming federal aid freeze leads to nationwide Medicaid outagesMedicaid portals are reportedly down across all 50 states following President Trump's executive order freezing federal aid, causing uncertainty and concern.
President Donald Trump‘s administration sought to tamp down confusion over Medicaid funding in the wake of Office of Management and Budget director Matthew Vaeth’s memorandum pausing federal grant funding.
The White House Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday rescinded a memo that froze federal grants and loans and created widespread confusion this week.
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.
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