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Initial reports suggested that the OMB freeze applied to everything except salaries for federal employees, checks to Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries and members of the military. "My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal nding freeze," the senator from Oregon said on the social media platform X on Federally-nded community health clinics, which that serve more than 32 million patients, many of them low-income, were also caught in the portal freeze. In addition to Medicaid, those clinics The unprecedented enrollment drop comes after federal protections ended this spring that had prohibited states from removing people from Medicaid during the three pandemic years. Since March 2020, enrollment in Medicaid and the related Children's Health Insurance Program had surged by more than 22 million to

reach 94 million people. The Medicaid unwinding is having unintended consequences on other safety-net services, making it difficult for low-income families that rely on other public istance programs. Some Medicaid recipients tell The ociated Press errors and consion are leading to them being kicked off the federally and state-nded health coverage program. States are undertaking an unprecedented review of the 84 million Medicaid enrollees nationwide. The federal government will require states to remove people whose incomes are too high for the program. Millions are expected to lose Up to 15 million people, including 6 million kids, are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage once the public health emergency ends. State and federal officials are scrambling to prepare. Millions of low-income and disabled Americans have seen their Medicaid benefits mistakenly halted as states

re-evaluate their eligibility. Advocates say some have lost their benefits because of ABC News' Rachel Scott reports on some families mistakenly caught in the middle as states purge their rolls of Medicaid recipients following the end of the pandemic health emergency. As the COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end, states have begun reessing Medicaid eligibility, in a process referred to as the "Medicaid Unwinding." On paper, this sounds straightforward. But in reality, the process has led to a cascade of unintended consequences, leaving many vulnerabl