Hours after President Donald Trump’s administration announced it was freezing potentially trillions of dollars in federal grants and other fiscal aid across the nation, Illinois agencies were having trouble accessing Medicaid systems,

Gov. Pritzker blasted the Trump administration, saying the federal government lied to state officials that the freeze would affect Medicaid.

Amid the Trump administration's abrupt, wide-scale freeze on federal funding, states are reporting that they've lost access to Medicaid, a program jointly funded by the federal government and states to provide comprehensive health coverage and care to tens of millions of low-income adults and children in the US.