They are using the American citizens as pawns:

Doing what they can to make President Trump look bad.

Seems that the Medicaid folks are playing idiot games. They deliberately misconstrued the meaning of a memo from Trump’s administration, and pre-emptively cut off Medicaid payments….and closed the Medicaid portals in all the states, even though funding is not cut off at the state levels at all. The lying bastards claimed it was Trump’s fault.

The memo sent out to government agencies on Monday stated that its orders should not be ‘construed’ to apply to Social Security and Medicare programs for seniors and said that the hold ‘does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.’

Really, we all need to realize that the “lack of funding” didn’t happen overnight,,,the States fund more than half of the budget of Medicaid. There was no “immediate funding crisis” caused by Trump’s Executive order, just one manufactured by the Deep State using the Medicaid recipients as pawns. Much like the National Parks  closing unattended parks and facilities during the budget talks, it is all theater.

Heads should roll for this in every state where this happened.

Moreover, this happened in many states…This was a planned game they are playing: a conspiracy. This isn’t one person misconstruing the directions. This is a chance, an opening, for the folks like JD Pritzker to make their case against Donald Trump.