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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states (Sen. Ron Wyden)
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lgt2ng5xms2o
His "toot" also points to this article: https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/28/illinois-medicaid-federal-funding-freeze-trump-administration
gab13by13
(25,994 posts)seek out microphones, make Trump and his Congressional Magats own the Medicaid shutdown.
Initech
(103,113 posts)iemanja
(55,306 posts)haele
(13,783 posts)Small and local businesses will start to collapse by March 30 if the cuts continue, especially the infrastructure cuts. Unemployment will really start to spike then, also - and without the Federal input to unemployment insurance, even more will slide.
Infrastructure projects will take hits, not only putting a significant number of non-college educated local people out of work, but putting additional strain on already strained utilities and communities.
I took enough business courses to see how much federal subsidies to the poor affect the economy.
But the people behind Project 2025 calls any attempt to improve the lives of the poor and minorities "Marxism" instead of investment, because they don't believe that anyone who wasn't born into Wealth or was able to make Wealth (from whatever means) is smart or deserving of plain human dignity or consideration.
Their actions and "policies" show they believe the World belongs to them for this point in time to use however they want. They "bought" or "earned" it.
We're just disposable objects that are either in the way or can be used.
pfitz59
(11,204 posts)pending review. Wait until suppliers can't get deliveries because ancient infrastructure collapses.
BattleRow
(1,299 posts)erronis
(17,520 posts)If you have to ask if you are a peasant, then you already know the answer.
haele
(13,783 posts)But I'm not a Serf, those will be the folks whose families are doomed to indentured servitude to a corporate owner without choice for generations.
Cha
(306,528 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 28, 2025, 06:17 PM - Edit history (1)
Destroy America by Orders of Putin.
Maraya1969
(23,099 posts)up by congress I thought -
DURHAM D
(32,869 posts)assisted living and Hospice will be put out on the street.
yellow dahlia
(796 posts)WH is saying the exec. order is not targeting Medicaid, but in reality the Medicaid portals are shut down in all 50 states.
So much chaos.
Red Mountain
(1,971 posts)but anybody else participating is not.
Trump will be gone one day.
If anybody dies, have the murder charges ready to go.
progressoid
(50,897 posts)Thanks.
lame54
(37,355 posts)JustAnotherGen
(34,129 posts)Correct message:
The Felon just ripped medicaid away.
Not you OP - but I'm going to start nitpicking any language by our Party that is not in the face of everyone.
Oneear
(305 posts)With the Medicaid Platform down, Donald Trump wants us to Kiss his ring. The problem is that this is grinding the Government to a halt, so no Services will be provided. Donald Trump is not doing his Fiduciary Duty, and he took an Oath just the other week on January 20, 2025.
mwmisses4289
(293 posts)the bibles, and the fingers of his hand hanging down by his side were crossed (at least, in all the pics I've seen, that's what it looked like to me).
beaglelover
(4,167 posts)Are these websites different than the portal?
markie
(23,065 posts)"State Medicaid programs across the country are reporting theyve lost access to federal payment portals one day after President Trump announced a freeze on federal grants and aid....."
beaglelover
(4,167 posts)NotHardly
(1,523 posts)littlemissmartypants
(26,351 posts)He's going to let a silly thing like people dying interfere with his tyranny?
birdographer
(2,598 posts)are hardcore MAGA. No matter where they go, who they complain to, who they rage at, the response will be that this was donalds doing. Perhaps this is the way through their cement skulls. We are angry and we saw this coming. They trusted him to protect them; I imagine they will be enraged by this betrayal when it finally hits home. Particularly when family members start dying.
I am deeply afraid for our people affected by this. Not so much for MAGAs.
TBF
(34,970 posts)yardwork
(65,116 posts)I just wrote to mine. Look up your senators and representative at Congress.gov. Go to their webpages and fill out forms to write them.
Do it today. They need to receive millions of emails from their constituents.
Be polite. Don't threaten or call names. State the problem and urge them to restore federal funding to these programs immediately.
BattleRow
(1,299 posts)How about military and defense costs?
Katcat
(398 posts)To his own businesses?
Jacson6
(994 posts)I don't appreciate these scare tactics against disabled & senior citizens like myself.
Demovictory9
(34,205 posts)Jacson6
(994 posts)Mountain Mule
(1,065 posts)I have so very little and now they want to take away even that.
Ms. Toad
(35,796 posts)I haven't tried to process an application for Medicaid, since I'm not eligible - but I got to the application page and was able to enter information.
videohead5
(2,526 posts)Is sinking like a rock. Even Rasmussen has his approval rating going down and that was before this freeze.