Another Hoax Blows Up! Fake News Claims Trump Shut Down Medicaid Portals, Locked 72 Million Americans Out of Their Health Insurance – Here’s What Really Happened
Another day, another hoax.
The fake news media on Tuesday claimed President Trump shut down Medicaid portals and ‘locked 72 million Americans out of their health insurance.’
The media claimed Trump’s freeze on federal funding shut down the Medicaid portals.
“Medicaid, Head Start, health centers say they’re locked out of federal funding website,” CBS News claimed.
CBS News reported:
A wide range of organizations and agencies that depend on federal health department funds say they have been locked out of the online system responsible for tracking and depositing their money, in the wake of the White House’s move to freeze funding across the Trump administration.
These include state Medicaid programs which have been unable to log into the Payment Management Services web portal, or PMS, run by the Department of Health and Human Services, which handles billions of dollars of payments every year.
The website currently warns that due “to Executive Orders regarding potentially unallowable grant payments, PMS is taking additional measures to process payments. Reviews of applicable programs and payments will result in delays and/or rejections of payments.”
“Trump Medicaid freeze seems to lock 72 million Americans out of their health insurance,” QZ.com reported.
“Illinois, Other States Lose Access to Medicaid Portal Amid Funding Freeze,” WTTW reported.
President Trump did not shut down Medicaid portals.
The Medicaid website portal had a temporary outage, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage,” Karoline Leavitt said.
“We have confirmed no payments have been affected — they are still being processed and sent,” she said.
“We expect the portal will be back online shortly,” Leavitt added.
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.
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) January 28, 2025
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