Update: A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump's freeze of federal grant funds, and the White House issued a statement shortly before publication claiming an outage: "We have confirmed no payments have been affected — they are still being processed and sent. We expect the portal will be back online shortly." After publication, at least one state reported being "unaware of any lapses in access to the federal government portal ... with operations 'functioning as normal.'"

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According to a clarifying memo released by Donald Trump's budget office Tuesday morning, a previous memo ordering all federal agencies to freeze federal grants and loans will not affect mandatory programs like Medicaid. At the same time as the second memo was circulating, however, officials were reporting........

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