Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the sweeping cuts confirmed by the White House to thousands of programs — ones that fund everything from highway projects to kids’ lunches, drug addiction assistance to medical research labs — was going to include cuts to Medicaid too,

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said President Donald Trump’s pause on federal funding is illegal and accused the administration of lying when it said programs that provide direct assistance like Medicaid would not be affected.

Though the White House took pains to walk back some aspects of the funding shakeup, the governor contends the damage was done — and the damage, as he sees it, was the point.