IIRC It's for Americans viewing only, won't be listed as Gulf of America for people in sane countries.

“Accidentally.” That’s been a Republican goal for decades. 

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

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— Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) 28 January 2025 at 18:13

Funding for WIC is now frozen. It provides food for Women, Infants, and Children across the US.

As a pediatrician, I see the benefit of WIC for kids & families every day.

Without WIC, quite frankly, babies & kids in America will starve.

Now's a moment to ask what 'pro-life' means.
#MedSky #health

— Scott Hadland, MD (@drscotthadland.bsky.social) 28 January 2025 at 15:52

Just confirmed that the Trump administration shutdown the Medicaid portal for Florida. There are over 3.8 MILLION Floridians on Medicaid.

— Maxwell Frost (@maxwellfrost.bsky.social) 28 January 2025 at 18:48

Of course but apparently even Trump's own WH press secretary is confused what is happening.

So while that may be their goal, this time may have been an unintentional major fuckup.

At least it's not old Joe Biden ey? Genius Trump /s.

Every Republican accusation is a confession, even with regards to the health of Biden and Trump. 

When asked if Medicaid was impacted by the pause, Leavitt couldn't immediately say. She also did not directly respond to a question on the impact on organizations like Meals on Wheels, which provides meals to 2.2 million seniors, or Head Start, a program for preschool education, that receive federal funding. Leavitt said Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to Capitol Hill to "clarify some of the questions and the answers that all of you are asking me right now."

Trump White House tries to clarify confusion over abrupt federal assistance freeze - ABC News

White House Statement

The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal 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.

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They're going with it being a glitch, Lol. More likely they just don't have a fucking clue what funding they're freezing and just approving any shit put in front of them, then oops, we accidentally froze Medicaid. But whatever, it's a good thing that it's coming back and was a temporary fuck up but it's convenient timing for a glitch to happen literally right after the funding freezes.

Or testing things to see what people complain about, I wonder what else has "glitched" by accident.

I am starting to think Trump is our 21st century Hoover at this rate. 

If things continue like this first week, I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S (and the world of course) are in a depression in a month or two and the GOP tries to impeach him or 25th amendment him to save themselves from becoming a multi-decade opposition-only party at the national level like they were in the New Deal consensus period. 

The thing about dictators is they have to at least convince people in the beginning that they are making things better. That requires some degree of material advancement. Cutting programs haphazardly might be appealing to the 5% of the population who are right-wing libertarians, but certainly won't help you when people are starving, unemployed, homeless, and sick. 

And of course Trump doesn't care, but the only thing keeping him from being impeached is that he is popular among the same voters that congressional Republicans need for votes. The moment that becomes untrue, what do they have to lose by using him as a scapegoat?

Let's hope that's all he is. The problem is, the Southern Baptist Church and other evangelical churches have spent the past 50 years grooming generations of people in the South for someone like Trump. That kind of programming is going to be hard to overcome.

My concern is that Trump will become the American version of Ferdinand Marcos - decades of robbing the people blind and enriching his family at the public's expense, installing his family in Congress. Melania certainly looks like Imelda Marcos at times. They so thoroughly whitewashed Marcos's regime in the Phlippines that Ferdinand Marcos Jr. won the 2022 election in a landslide. 

People's bellies will wake them up. No individual in politics is safe from the beast that is American consumerism. It is the real religion of the U.S. Evangelicals, for all their loudness, are a small minority that are dwindling in numerical power. Trump didn't win because of them. 

The problem with comparing the U.S to developing countries is that people become more angry when they lose something they've been accustomed to having than when they lose some potentiality.  

The hissy-fit that was the post-Covid right-wing shift of the American population was because Walmarts are no longer 24 hours and service workers no longer want to be abused and quit. Imagine what happens when most Americans are actually skipping meals.