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.” […]
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