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by ceejayoz 502 days ago
Yes.

It also appears to pause Medicaid funding. That impacts 85M people and half of all childbirths.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/2...

> Although the White House in a memo stated that Medicare and Medicaid would not be affected by the freeze, Illinois on Tuesday reported that state agencies could not access federal funding sites that included Medicaid.

> State agencies started reporting issues to Gov. JB Pritzker’s office Tuesday morning with accessing federal funding sites and disbursement systems, including Medicaid systems, his office said. Pritzker has been in communication with the state’s federal delegation, local elected officials, nonprofits and other governors about the matter.