The online system for federal health funding warned of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration announced a freeze.

Congressman Gabe Amo spent Thursday morning at Children’s Friend; a nonprofit head start provider in Providence, devastated by the aftershocks of the federal funding freeze.

A judge temporarily blocked the freeze, which the White House says doesn't affect individuals, but federal payment portals are glitching.

Federal health researchers, nonprofits and programs for early childhood education reported that their access to federal funds had gone down, raising alarms about access to jobs, health care services,

Don’t let anybody tell you this was some technical glitch,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said. “They were very purposeful in trying to wreak havoc on our communities."

The website that states use to get Medicaid payments from the federal government is down, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Other payment systems also appear to be offline, suggesting a broader shutdown of federal portals related to grants and funding.

Anderson woke up to the news on her social media feed that President Trump froze all federal funding, confusing her as it did most Americans.

Trump claims he has a "mandate" to slash budgets, but polls show Americans want more spending on education, health care, Social Security, infrastructure and anti-poverty efforts.

The Jan. 28 executive order directs federal regulators to cut insurance coverage for hormonal or surgical treatments that help in young peoples’ gender transitions and cut federal funding for medical professionals or institutions that provide such care.

The Democrats are a party controlled by elites, liberals and special interest groups. They are out of touch with America’s middle class. They are personified by a president who let inflation get the better of him and world events spin out of his control. As a result, the Democrats lost the White House as well as control of the Senate.