Medicaid recipients on Tuesday reported an outage that has them worried about their health insurance coverage.

The White House Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday rescinded a memo that froze federal grants and loans and created widespread confusion this week.

Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant.

The grant pause is perhaps most similar to a federal government shutdown, when a congressional impasse on spending legislation delays federal payments for some state and local services.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during her first press briefing, faced a barrage of questions on the administration's freeze on federal aid programs.

Illinois and other states were shut out of the Medicaid system Tuesday. The White House confirmed the portal “outage,” but insisted payments would be unaffected.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took to social media to clarify that state Medicaid portals are still being processed despite any outages.

A judge temporarily blocked implementation of a sweeping White House effort to pause potentially trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and other financial-assistance programs, a directive that created chaos as states struggled to access funding portals dealing with Medicaid,

The Trump administration has rescinded a controversial memo that froze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, following nearly 48 hours of widespread confusion across the U.S. from kitchen tables to Capitol Hill.

After the White House announced a temporary pause on certain federal funds and loan programs, the Medicaid portal shut down for users around the U.S.