Meta Query value >= (current date) not working with ACF - wordpress

Question

I am working on a loop with ACF fields inside of it. What I am trying to do is to loop my custom post type, but when the date is already passed the loop has to NOT show the event that already happened.
My code is made as follows:
<?php
$today = date('Ymd');
$posts = get_posts(array(
'post_type'=>'rasweekenden',
'post_status'=>'publish',
'posts_per_page'=>5,
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'eventdatum',
'value' => $today,
'type' => 'DATE', // specify it for numeric values
'compare' => '>='
)
),
'meta_key' => 'eventdatum',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'order' => 'ASC',
));
if($posts)
{
echo '<ul>';
foreach($posts as $post)
$date_event = date("Ymd", strtotime(get_field('eventdatum', get_the_ID())));
$date_today = date('Ymd');
if ($date_event >= $date_today){
{
the_field('rasweekend_heading', $post->ID);
}
}
echo '</ul>';
}
?>
eventdatum is a ACF field assigned to my Custom Post type rasweekenden.
This is made with the Datepicker from ACF with a value output of Ymd.
I think it has something to do with my meta_query but I'm not sure.

Answer 1

Since your query is getting posts. I would remove the if statement from the loop, as you've already done this anyway on the query.
if($posts) {
echo '<ul>';
foreach($posts as $post) {
echo '<li>';
the_field('rasweekend_heading', $post->ID);
echo '</li>;
}
echo '</ul>';
}