Ex-WH press secretary calls Trump aide’s bluff on funding freeze: 'We never could’ve gotten away with this'

President Donald Trump's administration claimed that the MAGA leader's freeze on federal funding Tuesday "would not hurt anyone anyone receiving "direct assistance" from the federal government," but CBS News' report that the Medicaid Payment Management System is down left some Americans unconvinced.

Meanwhile, Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt tweeted, "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."

The Trump staffer added. "We expect the portal will be back online shortly."

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Symone Sanders Townsend — MSNBC's The Weekend co-host and former press secretary to ex-President Joe Biden — replied to Leavitt's remarks.

"Um. The portals didn’t glitch they were shutdown as a result of the memo from OMB," Sanders Townsend wrote.

"The reason they are coming back on is because of the uproar. To be clear that’s what happened. When I was in the WH we never could have gotten away with this. The reporters would have been on us like white on rice!"

Politico's Kyle Cheney reported later Tuesday evening that "a federal judge has ordered a halt to Donald Trump's sweeping aid freeze, issuing a 'brief administrative stay' to preserve the status quo for at least a few days while further litigation plays out."

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