The federal Office of Management and Budget sent out a memo yesterday ordering the freeze of all federal grants and loans.
The White House is pausing federal grants and loans starting on Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending.
The decision by the Republican administration could affect trillions of dollars and cause widespread disruption in health care research, education programs and other initiatives. Even grants that have been awarded but not spent are supposed to be halted.
Medicare and Social Security benefits will be unaffected by the pause, according to the memo. But there was no explanation of whether the pause would affect Medicaid, food stamps, disaster assistance and other programs. The memo said it should be implemented “to the extent permissible under applicable law.”
I have no problem with a new administration prioritizing spending and moving funds away from programs they deem unnecessary. But stopping all funding during that process is unnecessary and has the potential to adversely affect millions of Americans, small businesses, and the economy as a whole.
These funds were approved and appropriated by Congress. This is a power move by the administration that is totally near sighted and cruel. I’m not sure why a mother trying to use her SNAP benefits to buy food should suffer because Trump doesn’t want Trans and DEI programs funded. Identify those programs and shut them down. Why interrupt all funding and grants possibly putting vulnerable Americans at risk?
Where is congress in all of this? I’d be shocked if there wasn’t some kind of bi-partisan response from congress today. If not … what are they even doing? Just give all your power to the executive. Who the ■■■■ cares?
I seriously doubt these programs are funded on a day to day basis so it’s not like children will go to school today and not eat because funding has been cut. A review should be made of all federal spending programs and all fraud, waste and abuse should be cut. Every administration has talked about this for decades. Now that someone is actually doing it, the sky is falling!
Holding our officials accountable for how federal money is spent- what a novel idea!
Exactly! It’s not like we had a POTUS completely ignore the Supreme Court and continue to pay off student loans after they’ve been told they can’t or anything.
Why even put a program like that in jeopardy? So that some DEI program can get cancelled? It’s absurd.
Sure. Review everything! Go nuts! But these funds have been appropriated by congress. Stopping them midstream serves no real purpose other than a power flex by the executive.
When children starve or elderly people are getting kicked out of nursing homes as a result of funding being paused, I’ll be right there with you blasting Trump. So far the only people being affected by Trump policies are criminals and programs promoting racism, sexism and other unconstitutional things.
The court did not find all government repayment of student loans unconstitutional. There were and still are programs backed by laws that allow the government to repay loans for certain people who do certain things. What was not allowed was Biden’s huge stretch of a law to repay most people’s student loans.
