Meals on Wheels and similar organizations that contract with the federal government to provide meals and food to the poor appear to be losing their funding during the suspension of payments.
Also notably because of the other order preventing government agencies from communicating publicly means state officials are getting zero information on if this is intentional, a temporary outage or something else.
https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lgt2ng5xms2o
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/trump-freezes-federal-gr...
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/28/illinois-other-states-lose-...
41% of births rely on Medicaid funding.
EDIT: https://x.com/PressSec/status/1884329868030271759
> 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.
> We expect the portal will be back online shortly.