White House blames "outage" for locking out Medicaid, Head …
Jan 29, 2025 · Trump's funding memo doesn't block individual assistance, White House says 04:48. The White House blamed an "outage" for locking out a wide range of organizations and agencies on Tuesday from the ...
States say Medicaid access cut, White House says no payments …
Jan 28, 2025 · White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the White House was aware of the Medicaid program's online portal outage and said it would be back online soon. She said no payments had been affected.
Medicaid Portals Down After Donald Trump Funding Freeze
Jan 28, 2025 · 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....
Trump’s federal grant pause creates confusion over Medicaid
Jan 29, 2025 · Although the White House insisted that Medicaid, which provides health insurance to more than 72 million low-income Americans, was not affected by the freeze that it announced Monday evening,...
Trump White House tries to clarify confusion over abrupt federal ...
Jan 28, 2025 · According to the memo, "in addition to Social Security and Medicare, already explicitly excluded in the guidance, mandatory programs like Medicaid and SNAP will continue without pause."
White House says Medicaid portal ‘will be back online shortly’ …
Jan 28, 2025 · Medicaid reimbursement portals went down Tuesday in every U.S. state after the Trump administration ordered a freeze on federal grants and loans, a senator said. But the White House later...
White House says funding freeze won't affect Medicaid payments ...
Jan 28, 2025 · The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage. We have confirmed no payments have been affected — they are still being processed and sent.
As some Medicaid sites freeze up, White House acts to clarify
Jan 28, 2025 · WASHINGTON — A new memo from the White House budget office indicates that Medicaid payments should not be affected by a pause on some federal grants. States, though, on Tuesday were reporting ...
Medicaid funding questions swirl after White House orders …
Jan 28, 2025 · States have a Jan. 30 deadline to submit Q4 2024 Medicaid expenditures to the federal government as the basis to receive their allotment of federal funding. The White House on Tuesday attributed the various portal interruptions to “an outage” that was set to …
Trump administration defends spending freeze - Axios
Jan 28, 2025 · White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the Trump administration's temporary pause on some federal spending as Democrats sounded the alarm about programs like Medicaid going dark.