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Federal funding freeze to disrupt Medicaid in Illinois
- toomuchtodo 2y agoMedicaid portals are down for all 50 states, confirmed by Senator Ron Wyden. https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lgt2ng5xms2o https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lgt2ng5xms2o https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/trump-freezes-federal-grants-healthcare-medicaid-providers/738449/ https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/trump-freezes-federal-gr... https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/28/illinois-other-states-lose-access-medicaid-portal-amid-funding-freeze https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/28/illinois-other-states-lose-... 41% of births rely on Medicaid funding. EDIT: https://x.com/PressSec/status/1884329868030271759 https://x.com/PressSec/status/1884329868030271759 > 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. > We expect the portal will be back online shortly.
- fzeroracer 2y agoAlso notably because of the other order preventing government agencies from communicating publicly means state officials are getting zero information on if this is intentional, a temporary outage or something else. It's a massive shitshow.
- basementcat 2y agoMeals on Wheels and similar organizations that contract with the federal government to provide meals and food to the poor appear to be losing their funding during the suspension of payments.