President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order rescinding Biden-era Medicare and Medicaid price innovation programs signals sweeping changes to the drug and treatment pricing agency within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and perhaps a substantive shake-up in two of the largest federal social welfare programs.

Karoline Leavitt confirmed Tuesday afternoon the downed portals after multiple reports from lawmakers that their states could not get access to Medicaid dollars.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the sweeping cuts confirmed by the White House to thousands of programs — ones that fund everything from highway projects to kids’ lunches, drug addiction assistance to medical research labs — was going to include cuts to Medicaid too,

WASHINGTON—A sweeping White House order sought to pause billions of dollars in federal grants, loans and other financial assistance-programs, creating chaos and inviting lawsuits as states struggled to access funding portals dealing with Medicaid,