WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At least three U.S. lawmakers said on Tuesday healthcare providers were blocked from the Medicaid payment portal after the Trump administration announced a federal funding pause,

Reports of shuttered Medicaid portals began Tuesday morning, with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, writing by the early afternoon that his staff "had confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze."

After declining to name Medicaid as a program safe from the Trump administration's woke "freeze," press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the sites should be back up shortly.

The White House Office of Management and Budget says its program freeze is limited, but states report widespread disruption in online Medicaid portals.

Government officials from across the US said states were locked out of the Medicaid payments system after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered a freeze to federal funds.

This safeguard now puts Medicaid expansion, which became law in the state in 2023, at risk, as congressional Republicans are reportedly considering changes to Medicaid to fund immigration initiatives and tax cuts desired by President Donald Trump.

State Medicaid programs across the country are reporting they’ve lost access to federal payment portals one day after President Trump announced a freeze on federal grants and aid. On Monday,

Democratic lawmakers in states including New York, Illinois and Oregon reported issues accessing portals for Medicaid and other social programs, hours after President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo pausing federal aid.

A spokeswoman for the Trump administration said the "White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage" and was moving to get it back online.

The online system for federal health funding now warns of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration announced a freeze.

The outage at least temporarily jeopardized payments the federal government makes to state programs, and sowed uncertainty for patients, doctors, hospitals and others.