Lawmakers and state officials say portals inaccessible for one of largest health insurance programs in US

Medicaid payment portals are down following the Trump administration’s decision to freeze trillions of dollars in federal funding, an effort by the new president to root out “wokeness” in the federal government, multiple sources have reported.

A health insurance program for low-income individuals, Medicaid is run jointly by the states and the federal government. With the Children’s Health Insurance Program (Chip), Medicaid insures more than one in five Americans, or about 79 million people, nearly half of whom are children. Medicaid also pays for roughly two in every five births in the US.