The Medicaid website was down, but the portal was expected to be back up shortly, said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. She wrote on X that no payments had been affected and that they were still being processed and sent.

Health organizations nationwide have been thrown into chaos after Federal financial assistance programs became disrupted following President Donald Trump’s directive to freeze funding across multiple agencies,

State Medicaid programs across the country reported Tuesday they had lost access to federal payment portals one day after President Trump announced a freeze on federal grants and aid. By the late afternoon,