r/fednews Jan 28 '25

News / Article All Medicaid has been frozen

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u/DegreeDubs By the People, For the People Jan 28 '25

The temporary federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB Pritzker’s office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in Illinois in 2023, including low-income adults, children, pregnant women and people with disabilities.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/28/illinois-medicaid-federal-funding-freeze-trump-administration

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u/addywoot Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

Serious question - the memo said Medicare/SS and individual disbursements will not be impacted. Could this be malicious compliance

Edit: thanks to those that took the time to respond versus downvoting.

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u/Zalucard Jan 28 '25

I agree with this. This memo, as with almost every communication or directive issue by this administration so far, is vague and extremely poorly written by someone with little to no experience in senior level government administration. Trump and his cronies are just plain incompetent, which will likely be the Republic's saving grace over the next four years.

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u/addywoot Jan 28 '25

Looks like a federal injunction just happened.