Trump's funding freeze triggers worry, Democrats says hits Medicaid program

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : Trump pledged government support when he visited both places last week.
61% : U.S. Representative Tom Emmer, the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, said Trump was simply following through on his campaign promises.
59% : Medicaid, which covers about 70 million people, is jointly funded by both the states and the federal government, and each state runs their own program.
57% : U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, the top finance committee Democrat, said his office had confirmed that the portal doctors use to secure payments from Medicaid had been deactivated in all 50 states.
56% : In a second memo released on Tuesday, OMB officials said funds for Medicaid, Head Start, farmers, small businesses and rental assistance would continue without interruption.
49% : As part of last week's 90-day foreign aid suspension, the administration moved on Tuesday to stop the distribution of drugs for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as medical supplies for newborn babies, in countries supported by the United States Agency for International Development.
48% : "From pausing research on cures for childhood cancer to halting food assistance, safety from domestic violence, and closing suicide hotlines, the impact of even a short pause in funding could be devastating and cost lives," Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits, one of the four groups that sued on Tuesday, said in a statement.
43% : " The U.S. Constitution gives Congress control over spending matters, but Trump said during his campaign that he believes the president has the power to withhold money for programs he dislikes.
39% : Trump's Republican allies have been pushing for dramatic spending cuts, though he has promised to spare Social Security and Medicare, which make up roughly one-third of the budget.
38% : " The order was not limited to the $618 billion Medicaid program, also threatening to disrupt education, anti-poverty programs, housing assistance, disaster relief and a host of other initiatives that depend on trillions of federal dollars.
35% : White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she could not say whether the program had been frozen, telling reporters at her first briefing since Trump took office on Jan. 20, "I'll get back to you.
31% : In a blizzard of executive actions, Trump has shuttered all diversity programs, imposed a hiring freeze, sent national security officials home and sought to strip away job protections from thousands of civil servants.

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