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.
The online system for federal health funding warned of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration announced a freeze.
President Donald Trump's order to pause all federal grants and loans sowed widespread confusion on Tuesday over its impact on far-reaching programs such as Medicaid, sending nonprofits and government agencies scrambling to understand its scope and prompting immediate legal challenges.
Congressman Gabe Amo spent Thursday morning at Children’s Friend; a nonprofit head start provider in Providence, devastated by the aftershocks of the federal funding freeze.
The website that states use to get Medicaid payments from the federal government is down, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
The White House confirmed the website for Medicaid payments was down a day after announcing a pause on federal grants and loans.
Early childhood education centers and states nationwide discovered Tuesday that they could no longer access money they rely on to provide care after the White House paused federal grands and loans in a far-reaching executive order.
A judge temporarily blocked the freeze, which the White House says doesn't affect individuals, but federal payment portals are glitching.
Federal health researchers, nonprofits and programs for early childhood education reported that their access to federal funds had gone down, raising alarms about access to jobs, health care services,
Don’t let anybody tell you this was some technical glitch,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said. “They were very purposeful in trying to wreak havoc on our communities."
Other payment systems also appear to be offline, suggesting a broader shutdown of federal portals related to grants and funding.
Anderson woke up to the news on her social media feed that President Trump froze all federal funding, confusing her as it did most Americans.