A wide range of organizations and agencies, depending on the funds of the Federal Health Department, says they have been excluded from the online system responsible for tracking and depositing their money in view of the White House move. Freeze funding Over the Trump administration.
These include state medicine programs which have been unable to log in. Payment management services The web portal, or PMS, is run by the Department of Health and Human Services, which handles billions of dollars every year.
The website currently warns that “due to executive orders about potentially uncontrolled grant payments, PMS is taking additional measures to process payment. Delay and/or rejection of payment as a result of applicable programs and payment reviews Will be. “
A spokesperson of HHS did not immediately respond to the request of the comment as to why the recipients were locked out of the portal.
White House press secretary Karolin Levitt told reporters on Tuesday that the medicade recipients and others who get direct federal funds will continue to receive it. “It does not affect personal aid that is going to Americans,” he said. He also said that funding stagnation is “temporary”.
But other recipients of federal health dollars have also reported to be out of payment System, including Initial edge Childhood education program and Community health center,
“My employees have confirmed the reports that Medicid portals are below all 50 states after the federal funding freeze of the last night. It is a clear effort to remove health care from millions of Americans overnight and people will be killed, “Oregon Democratic Sen Ron Widen Posted On X.
A Democrat of Hawaii tweeted, “Many states dropped out of the Medicade portal.” “This is a trump shutdown, except this time it is illegal.”
Missouri Republican Sen Josh Haley said that she was assured that Medicid would not be affected.
Hale said, “Everything that the White House has told us right now is that there is not a medicade, not clearly, it has been covered by it.” “In other words, there will be no obstruction in a medicade or medicare or any grant that floats individuals.”
A spokesperson of the National Association of Medicade Directors says that he has formally sought guidance from the Trump administration to convince the obstruction.
Joan Alkor of Georgetown University Center for children and families Called on To issue a statement, the administration clarified that Medicaid Should not be affected, it is a warning that it is one “Major crisis” As the state wants to fund it for the month.
“Any stagnation in the federal funding of the Medicid – the biggest source of federal funding received by the states – will be disastrous for the states as to attract federal funds to fulfill their financial obligations for health care providers and health schemes Need. “Said Alkar.
In a statement ahead of the lockout, HSS also Announced It will be ensured that “Federal Taxpayer Dollar is being used to ensure all programs, regulations, and guidance or not being used to pay or promote alternative abortion” executive Order By President Trump.
One in statementThe National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association warned that the health centers could also face “significant disruption” for operations with “temporary funding poses”.
“For many patients, titled Ex-Finance Health Centers serve as the only source of their health care. Title X Family Planning Program has already reduced chronicly, and this executive action is a health provider network Already working under immense stress, which is destabilizing, “said CEO Clair Coleman, the association's president.
Although the Livit of the White House said that the direct payment to the Americans would not be affected, it did not specifically address which grant program would avoid funding stagnation.
Legal challenges for freeze have already been filed by a coalition, including the National Council of Non -Profits and American Public Health Association, asks a federal judge to prevent action from being effective for emergency orders for emergency orders. .
Several Democratic State Attorney General also announced on Tuesday afternoon that they would sue the Trump administration about the federal funds about the management office and budget memo, and would seek a temporary restraint order to prevent it from being implemented. .
School lunch, other programs worry about the effects of funding freeze
The implications of federal grants are beyond HHS, but full effects are still unknown.
It is not clear that the National School Lunch Program, which reimburses schools and school districts every month for children serving food, will still receive funds through the US Agriculture Department. The program has about 28 million US school children every month.
Dyane Prat-Hener, director of the Media Relations at the School Nutrition Association, said that his organization is asking the USDA for more information.
“We are urging the Congress to increase the reimbursement of school food in view of the financial crisis facing food programs today, so there is definitely no place in the budget for missing reimbursement,” he said.
Food on food, a non -profit organization that offers about 250 million food to more than 2 million seniors every year, receives federal grant funds. They are not sure what is next.
“If this order involves the Old Americans Act, it will probably stop the service for millions of weak seniors who have no other means of buying or preparing food,” said a spokesman of a food. “And lack of clarity and uncertainty is still creating chaos for local food on the providers of wheels, not to ensure whether they should serve food today, which unfortunately means that the seniors will not know that Where will their next food come from? “
He said that since the program has already decreased, the local providers “usually do not have the ability to absorb a shock in this way, especially if it persists for any extended period.”
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