President Donald Trump's federal funding freeze is supposedly not supposed to affect Medicaid — but state Medicaid officials say that they're locked out of their federal funding portals regardless. Less than a day after the White House Office of Budget and Management (OMB) sent a memo to all federal agencies temporarily pausing all federal loans and grants,

President Donald Trump‘s administration sought to tamp down confusion over Medicaid funding in the wake of Office of Management and Budget director Matthew Vaeth’s memorandum pausing federal grant funding.