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The Trump administration’s shakeup of the federal government is sending shockwaves throughout Connecticut, from federal workers to nonprofits to elected officials. Recent job cuts from the newly-formed Department of Government Efficiency, alongside federal funding freezes, which have been challenged and struck down in federal courts, have left residents, community organizations and local government leaders uneasy about the future.

With Medicaid facing unprecedented cuts at the federal level, Connecticut is on the verge of a healthcare crisis that could devastate families, strain hospitals, and upend community health centers already struggling to stay afloat, officials said Monday.

Some health centers are scaling back services and bracing for more cuts as President Trump eyes reductions in federal Medicaid funding. Now the centers are taking on the state’s Department of Social Services, claiming that the formula used by the agency for reimbursements has left them with mounting losses. A group representing the centers filed a petition Tuesday with the agency in anticipation of a future lawsuit.

The not-for-profit Community Health Center Association of Connecticut has filed a Declaratory Ruling Request with the state Department of Social Services regarding that agency’s legal obligations for setting and revising Medicaid reimbursement rates for the state’s federally qualified health centers.

The Community Health Center Association of Connecticut sent a petition Tuesday to the Department of Social Services demanding the agency admit it’s violating state and federal law governing reimbursements for care they provide to low-income patients on Medicaid.

One day after lawmakers ignored his appeal to be frugal with special education, Gov. Ned Lamont previewed the looming fiscal nightmare that is Medicaid.

When Southwest Community Health Center CEO Mollie Melbourne was invited to join U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., in Washington, D.C., for President Donald Trump’s address Tuesday to a joint session of Congress, she said she “jumped at the opportunity.”

If Congress cuts Medicaid funding to states to help extend tax cuts, dental care for adults could be one of the first casualties as legislators and governors re-sort priorities and try to make do with less.

State Democrats are sounding the alarm about proposed cuts to federal Medicaid funding.

They say medical care for almost a million people in Connecticut is now at risk.

A federal funding pause is making it difficult for community health centers across Connecticut to keep their operations running smoothly.

One center in Torrington is starting to feel the effects and is worried it will have a devastating effect on patients who are afraid services they need will be interrupted.