Democrat lawmakers and the corporate media tried and failed to push their first hoax against President Donald J. Trump and his White House just one week after he assumed office again as the 47th President of the United States. One day after Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo temporarily halting federal loans, grants, and assistance programs authorized under presidential executive orders, an unconnected federal Medicaid payments portal suffered an access outage.
However, according to the corporate media, being fed by hysterical claims from Democrats on Capitol Hill, the OMB memo resulted in the closure of access to a federal Medicaid funding portal for state governments. Despite the claim, there is no evidence the memo and the portal access issue were remotely connected.
The OMB did not temporarily freeze portal funding or impact Medicaid payments or allocations. In fact, the Trump administration memo explicitly states that “…any program that provides direct benefits to Americans is explicitly excluded from the pause and exempted from this review process.”
SWIFTLY FIXED.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the portal outage in a post on X (formerly Twitter), stating: “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.”
She added: “We expect the portal will be back online shortly.”
While a handful of state governments, including Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, and North Carolina, reported a brief interruption to portal access, they acknowledged that the disruption was quickly resolved. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) did warn that the payments portal was operating slower than usual after restoration—again pointing to a technology problem unrelated to the OMB memo.
ANOTHER DEMOCRAT HOAX.
Despite the obvious technical error, Democrats quickly pushed a media narrative connecting the Medicaid portal problem with the OMB memo. “My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night’s federal funding freeze,” Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote in a post on X yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) falsely claimed, “Connecticut’s Medicaid payment system has been turned off.”
Even after the corporate media acknowledged that the OMB memo narrative was false, Democrats in Congress continued to push the hoax that President Trump cut off state Medicaid payments. Throughout the Senate confirmation hearing for HHS Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Democrats repeated the allegations, going so far as to disingenuously claim President Trump violated the Impoundment Control Act. Yet, no such violation occurred, and again—despite the Democrat hysteria—state Medicaid payments were not frozen, halted, or disrupted in any way.
Additionally, Senate Democrats are attempting to demagogue on the portal outage, using it as a cudgel to delay the confirmation of Trump’s pick to lead the OMB, Russ Vought.
