Children, infants, rural communities and seniors are some of the groups Protect Our Care Michigan say will be negatively impacted by Medicaid funding cuts.

Michigan will soon eliminate an inactive requirement that able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid must work. The bill removing that requirement was signed into law Jan. 21 by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer after passing in the House and Senate in December along party lines,

DNC Executive Director Sam Cornale accused Trump and his “extreme allies in Congress” of seeking to “rip health care away from Michiganders in order to offset their billionaire tax

Questions remained Tuesday about which programs would be covered by the federal funding pause announced Monday and which would not.

Nessel, a Democrat and Michigan’s top law enforcement official, said her department was already learning of “services impacted throughout the state.” Her statement referenced

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she will be filing litigation in the wake of a freeze on federal funds to programs active in Michigan.

LANSING — Michigan's attorney general joined a group of 22 attorneys general Tuesday in a lawsuit aiming to halt a White House freeze on federal grants and loans.

LANSING — Michigan's attorney general planned to sue Tuesday to stop a White House freeze on federal grants and loans, calling it an "absurd and unprecedented attack" on Medicaid, Head Start and other programs.

The White House announced its pausing of federal grants and loans starting at 5 p.m. Tuesday as Trump’s administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending.

Michigan Attorney Dana Nessel said she is “taking immediate legal action” after Trump moved to pause federal grants and loans as his administration reviews spending.

The news comes as former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is taking a “serious look” at running to be “Senator Pete” in 2026.