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The White House said Tuesday it was working to get the Medicaid website portal back online.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on social media, "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."

Democrats blamed President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order freezing federal loans and grants for the site outage. Medicaid provides health insurance to more than 70 million Americans....

CNN's Daniel Dale declared that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt employed a "classic spinmeister tactic" when she failed to directly answer questions about Trump's sudden freeze on all federal grants and loans.

At issue was whether Americans who rely on federal assistance for things like food and medicine would lose their benefits.

The confusion began after "The Office of Management and Budget sent a vaguely worded two-page memo to all federal agencies Monday night directing them to 'temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.'"...