WASHINGTON, D. C. - A freeze on federal grant and loan funding that President Donald Trump announced this week left Ohio agencies, universities, and companies that receive federal money in a state of uncertainty as they weighed how to cope with a new policy that jeopardizes billions of dollars they expected to receive.

After declining to name Medicaid as a program safe from the Trump administration's woke "freeze," press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the sites should be back up shortly.

At least 61,000 Ohioans could lose Medicaid benefits if President-elect Donald Trump's team approves Ohio's request to add a work requirement for the public health insurance, according to state projections. The actual number could be as high as 450,000 ...

State Medicaid programs across the country are reporting they’ve lost access to federal payment portals one day after President Trump announced a freeze on federal grants and aid. On Monday,

At least three U.S. lawmakers said on Tuesday healthcare providers were blocked from the Medicaid payment portal after the Trump administration announced a federal funding pause, even as the White House said the program was exempted.

The White House’s freeze on federal grants and loans could have major impacts on people in the region who rely on social services, potentially impacting people’s health and well-being.

Stock photo from Getty Images. Hundreds of thousands of Ohio children are enrolled in public health insurance such as Medicaid, which could be in for major changes and cuts as the new presidential administration takes hold with authors and proponents of ...

The Trump administration has ordered a “temporary pause” on federal financial assistance that will go into effect at 5:00 p.m. | Chief among the questions raised by Monday's ambiguous memo are whether programs like Medicaid and SNAP as well as funding for clinical research,

Confused state officials scrambled Tuesday to discern how the order impacted state government, which gets about 30% of its general fund dollars from federal sources.

More than 61,000 Ohioans are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage if President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration grants Ohio’s request to bring back

"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 insurance from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed," Wyden wrote on X.

The outage, which occurred just after the White House ordered a pause on federal grants, raised concerns that billions in Medicaid funding would be cut off.