Kansas City Health Clinics Scramble Amid MAGA Federal Funding Battle

Local perspective from a last chance clinic in Midtown . . .

"A sweeping plan to freeze federal grants and loans affected $5 million that his community safety-net clinic relies on. The online portal that community health clinics across the country use to access federal money was suddenly inaccessible.

"A day of meetings and phone calls about how the clinic could survive without federal grant funding finally ended when U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan issued a stay, temporarily pausing President Donald Trump’s funding freeze.

"Late Tuesday, Wil Franklin, chief executive of KC CARE Health Clinic, got an email letting him know that access to the online funding portal had been restored. And nearly 24 hours later, the White House announced that it was rescinding the memo, causing more uncertainty."

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Threat of federal funding freeze and cuts causes 'panic and stress' in KC's nonprofit health care community

Community health clinics and other nonprofits that rely on tax dollars to provide health care and other services are scrambling. They believe funding cuts are inevitable.