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Owendonovan wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:05 am In a way, I'd like the world to turn its back on the US.
Uh... we have. S. America looks more to Europe, the Pacific rim more to China.
We are very much aware that you are unreliable with this baboon in charge. That any treaty is meaningless.
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
Trillions of dollars could be on hold, according to an Office of Management and Budget memo.

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January 27, 2025 at 9:24 p.m. EST17 minutes ago

By Jeff Stein, Jacob Bogage and Emily Davies
The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.

In a two-page document, Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, instructs federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.” The memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, also calls for each agency to perform a “comprehensive analysis” to ensure its grant and loan programs are consistent with President Donald Trump’s executive orders, which aimed to ban federal diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and limit clean energy spending, among other measures.

The memo states its orders should not be “construed” to impact Social Security or Medicare recipients, and also says the federal financial assistance put on hold “does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.”

But the document says programs affected are “including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.”

The order may impact at least tens of billions of dollars in payments, said Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a center-right think tank.

The memo also states that of the $10 trillion “that the Federal Government spent [in fiscal year 2024, which ended Sept. 30, 2024], more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans.” It was not immediately clear where those figures came from; the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the government spent $6.7 trillion in fiscal 2024.

A person familiar with the order, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe confidential decisions, confirmed the accuracy of the document and said it applied to all grants. The memo goes into effect Tuesday. The agencies are also required to submit detailed lists of projects suspended under the new order by Feb. 10.

“The funding delays are going to prove very difficult for grantees under the impression the money is coming, and have rent and salary payments dependent upon it,” Riedl said. “It seems like a very big deal.”

The memo was reported earlier Monday by journalist Marisa Kabas.

Federal grants support a broad range of recipients and causes. They go to universities for education and research programs, and to nonprofits for health care and studies, among thousands of other purposes.

Several congressional Democratic aides, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations, said they were bewildered by the memo and trying to understand its implications for the federal government.

The order’s legality may be contested, but the president is generally allowed under the law to defer spending for a period of time, according to budget experts.

G. William Hoagland, senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center, said the administration should be legally able to pause the money temporarily but would need to submit a formal request to Congress to do so beyond a set window.

Still, Hoagland and other budget experts have expressed concern about Trump’s promises to wrest spending control away from Congress. Hoagland said he fears the deferral could be a precursor to a broader assertion of executive spending power.

“I worry this is an effort to hold back on not implementing the law of the land as it relates to the budget process,” Hoagland said. “And in terms of the impact, it could be huge.”

The Trump administration has also acted rapidly to freeze most public communications by federal health agencies, as well as temporarily pausing foreign aid.

Read the full memo below. If you can’t see it, click here.

Temporary Pause to Review Agency Financial Assistance Programs

January 27, 2025
M-25-13
MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget
SUBJECT: Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance
Programs

The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and
gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar. In Fiscal Year 2024,
of the nearly $10 trillion that the Federal Government spent, more than $3 trillion was Federal
financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the Executive
Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as
expressed through Presidential priorities. Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing
Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America,
eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and
manufacturing, ending “wokeness” and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency
in government, and Making America Healthy Again. The use of Federal resources to advance
Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of
taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.

This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial
assistance
1 programs and supporting activities consistent with the President’s policies and
requirements.
2 For example, during the initial days of his Administration, President Donald J.
Trump issued a series of executive orders to protect the American people and safeguard valuable
taxpayer resources, including Protecting the American People Against Invasion (Jan. 20, 2025),
Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (Jan. 20, 2025), Putting America First in
International Environmental Agreements (Jan. 20, 2025), Unleashing American Energy (Jan. 20,
2025), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (Jan. 20,
1 2 CFR 200.1 defines Federal financial assistance to mean “[a]ssistance that recipients or subrecipients receive or administer” in various forms, but this term does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.

For the purposes of this memorandum, Federal financial assistance includes: (i) all forms of assistance listed in paragraphs
(1) and (2) of the definition of this term at 2 CFR 200.1; and (ii) assistance received or administered by recipients or subrecipients of any type except for assistance received directly by individuals.

2 Nothing in this memo should be construed to impact Medicare or Social Security benefits.2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to
the Federal Government (Jan. 20, 2025), and Enforcing the Hyde Amendment (Jan. 24, 2025).
These executive orders ensure that Federal funds are used to support hardworking American
families.

To implement these orders, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of all
of their Federal financial assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that
may be implicated by any of the President’s executive orders. In the interim, to the extent
permissible under applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related
to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency
activities that may be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial
assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the
green new deal.


This temporary pause will provide the Administration time to review agency programs
and determine the best uses of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the
President’s priorities. The temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00
PM. Even before completing their comprehensive analysis, Federal agencies must immediately
identify any legally mandated actions or deadlines for assistance programs arising while the
pause remains in effect. Federal agencies must report this information to OMB along with an
analysis of the requirement. OMB also directs Federal agencies to pause all activities associated
with open NOFOs, such as conducting merit review panels.

No later than February 10, 2025, agencies shall submit to OMB detailed information on
any programs, projects or activities subject to this pause. Each agency must pause: (i) issuance of
new awards; (ii) disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards; and (iii) other relevant
agency actions that may be implicated by the executive orders, to the extent permissible by law,
until OMB has reviewed and provided guidance to your agency with respect to the information
submitted.

OMB may grant exceptions allowing Federal agencies to issue new awards or take other
actions on a case-by-case basis. To the extent required by law, Federal agencies may continue
taking certain administrative actions, such as closeout of Federal awards (2 CFR 200.344), or
recording obligations expressly required by law.

Additionally, agencies must, for each Federal financial assistance program: (i) assign
responsibility and oversight to a senior political appointee to ensure Federal financial assistance conforms to Administration priorities; (ii) review currently pending Federal financial assistance announcements to ensure Administration priorities are addressed, and, subject to program statutory authority, modify unpublished Federal financial assistance announcements, withdraw
any announcements already published, and, to the extent permissible by law, cancel awards
already awarded that are in conflict with Administration priorities, and; (iii) ensure adequate
oversight of Federal financial assistance programs and initiate investigations when warranted to
identify underperforming recipients, and address identified issues up to and including
cancellation of awards.

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I wonder where all of the money is going to end up?
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ponchi101 wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:23 am
Owendonovan wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:05 am In a way, I'd like the world to turn its back on the US.
Uh... we have. S. America looks more to Europe, the Pacific rim more to China.
We are very much aware that you are unreliable with this baboon in charge. That any treaty is meaningless.
More like the dollar has to be worth a lot less, America as a last resort, not first choice.
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ti-amie wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:57 am I wonder where all of the money is going to end up?
In the neighborhood I work in, the Upper East Side.
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Our industry (federal government contracting) is officially freaking out. Technically, they won't be able to stop funding for congressionally mandated programs without congressional authorization. It would be illegal. But seeing as this administration and the people working in it have absolutely no respect for the law, why not?

But there's nothing to stop them from slashing and burning any agency's discretionary grant programs.
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Don't forget to scroll to see all of the agencies affected.
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Memos posted publicly to government websites claiming to be from the acting directors of OPM and OMB have metadata showing that the original authors are affiliated with Project 2025.

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whot the heck is the stephen hickman guy I can't find anything about him but his name is on a lot of these - they scrubbed the metadata minutes after I took this first screenshot

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All undocumented immigrants are "criminals," Trump administration says
Russell Contreras, Avery Lotz

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed immigrant rights groups' fears that the Trump administration sees all undocumented immigrants as "criminals" and isn't just seeking to deport those who commit violent acts.

Driving the news: In her first White House briefing, Leavitt falsely labeled all 3,500 immigrants arrested for suspicion of being in the country illegally "criminals." Being in the country illegally is a civil violation, not a criminal one, and the individuals who were arrested have not been convicted of a crime.

The big picture: Asked by a reporter how many of the 3,500 immigrants arrested since Trump took office have criminal records, Leavitt said, "all of them because they illegally broke our nation's laws."

"I know the last administration didn't see it that way, so it's a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that's exactly what they are."
Leavitt declined to say if all the undocumented immigrants had criminal records.

Reality check: There is no law making it a crime to live in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant. Instead, the law treats it as a civil violation.

Those detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) away from the U.S.-Mexico border have a right to a hearing with an immigration judge to determine if they can stay in the U.S. or not.
Less than 0.5% of the 1.8 million cases in immigration courts during the past fiscal year — involving about 8,400 people — included deportation orders for alleged crimes other than entering the U.S. illegally, an Axios review of government data found.

State of play: President Trump said in his inauguration speech that his administration would quickly deport "millions and millions" of "illegal aliens" with criminal records. Those millions don't exist.

In the past 40 years, federal officials have documented about 425,000 noncitizens with criminal convictions on the ICE's "non-detained docket."

About 13,100 of those were convicted of homicides and are imprisoned in the U.S. They'll have deportation hearings after serving their sentences.

During the campaign, Trump falsely said undocumented immigrants were responsible for rising crime (when data showed crime was going down).

To deport millions of "criminals," Trump would have to consider all undocumented immigrants as criminals — something it appears to be doing with Leavitt's latest comments.

Leavitt said "rapists" and "murderers" should be ICE's priority, but that doesn't mean others are off the table.

Yes, but: The federal government, since the Clinton administration, has always prioritized deporting immigrants convicted of violent crimes after they serve their sentences.

Immigrants convicted of violent crimes can't just immediately be deported and must go through the state or federal court system.

Very rarely does ICE allow undocumented immigrants with convictions for dangerous felonies to return to the public after serving time. Those immigrants usually go through deportation proceedings after serving their sentences.

Zoom in: Immigrants arrested in homicides accounted for less than 1% of "at-large" arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the last six years, an Axios review found.

At-large arrests are those made in public settings, as opposed to when ICE agents pick up someone who's already behind bars.

Between the lines: Karen Tumlin, director of the immigrant legal advocacy group Justice Action Center, predicted to Axios that the Trump administration would call all undocumented immigrants "criminals" as an excuse to separate families and go after non-violent immigrants.

The estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are largely agricultural, construction and service workers, students and others who have no criminal backgrounds, according to legal specialists and an Axios review of federal immigration data.

Study after study has indicated that immigrants — those in the U.S. legally, and those who aren't — commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens.

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Federal judge blocks Trump federal spending freeze after a day of chaos
Medicaid, education and housing funds were all interrupted Tuesday — even though the White House said its order was meant to be limited

Updated at 7:16 p.m. EST12 minutes ago

January 28, 2025

By Tony Romm, Jeff Stein, Jacob Bogage and Emily Davies
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from imposing a sweeping pause on trillions of dollars in federal spending, capping a frenetic day of disruption to government programs that fund schools, provide housing and ensure low-income Americans have access to health care.

The order prevented the new restrictions from taking effect until at least Feb. 3, buying time for a coalition of public health advocates, nonprofits and businesses — represented by the left-leaning group Democracy Forward — to proceed with a case that may test Trump’s claims of expansive power over the nation’s fiscal trajectory.

The decision arrived amid a wave of chaos and confusion in Washington, where few appeared to understand the scope and intention of a White House memo that had directed agencies to “temporarily pause” the disbursement of key federal funds. Even before it could officially take effect at 5 p.m., thousands of government services — many dedicated primarily to Americans’ health, safety and well-being — appeared to be at risk of interruption or shutdown, at least temporarily.

For hours, states reported issues accessing funds under Medicaid, even though the White House later said it wasn’t supposed to be affected by the spending halt. Preschool centers struggled to obtain reimbursements from the federal program known as Head Start, putting some child-care services at financial risk.

A web portal that housing providers use to draw down money for government-voucher and rental-assistance funds stopped working Tuesday, though the cause was not immediately clear. And federal health and education officials similarly said they had to halt work in response to the mixed messages from the White House. That stalled money for some after-school programs, charter schools and the Special Olympics, a spokesperson for the Education Department confirmed.

The uncertainty forced the White House to try to clarify its approach by midday: In a second directive, the Office of Management and Budget said it sought only to bring spending in line with the president’s recent executive orders, including those that clamp down on foreign aid and funding for diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, which Trump has called “radical and wasteful.”

But the conflicting and muddled instructions only exacerbated the sense of unease across the federal bureaucracy, particularly at a time when the White House has actively looked to make it easier to fire government workers — and punish those seen as disobeying Trump’s orders.

On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, many Democrats erupted in anger over the administration’s willingness to subvert Congress on matters of federal spending. And outside Washington, state policymakers similarly expressed frustration, leading about two dozen Democratic state attorneys general to file their own lawsuit challenging the legality of Trump’s spending freeze.

“This is a sigh of relief for millions of people who have been in limbo over the last twenty-four hours as the result of the Trump Administration’s callous attempt to wholesale shutter federal assistance and grant programs that people across this country rely on,” Skye Perryman, the president of Democracy Forward, said in a statement after U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan, a Biden appointee, agreed to stay Trump’s directive.

“We are grateful for this administrative stay to allow our clients time to sort through the chaos created by the Trump Administration’s hasty and ill-advised actions and bring more fulsome briefing to the court,” she added.

A spokeswoman for the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the court order.

In seeking to institute a freeze, the White House illustrated in the starkest terms to date that Trump would be willing to push the limits of the president’s purview over the budget. The Constitution affords the power of the purse to Congress, but Trump has signaled he could circumvent lawmakers anyway, potentially terminating entire categories of spending that he opposes.

Under a 1974 budget law, the White House can temporarily delay federal funds only if certain procedures are met and conditions followed — not simply because the White House disapproves of its purpose, according to David Super, an administrative law professor at Georgetown Law School.

But Trump and his incoming budget chief, Russell Vought, have indicated they believe that law is unconstitutional. Instead, they have publicly embraced a controversial power, known as impoundment, that could allow them to reduce or eliminate spending regardless of the amounts enacted by Congress.

Dan Jacobson, who served as the budget office’s general counsel under the Biden administration, said in an interview the pause is “very likely illegal,” adding: “There’s a lot of money that can get swept up under this that couldn’t be paused even if they did follow the law’s framework.”

On Tuesday, congressional Republicans still heralded Trump’s efforts to clamp down on spending, swatting away allegations that he had usurped their legislative powers.

“He’s been using his executive authority, I think, in an appropriate manner,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said at a “fireside chat” at House Republicans’ retreat in Florida, arguing that Trump won a “mandate.”

But the controversial stance still primed the White House for a constitutional clash over its budgetary authorities, as Democrats argued that Trump risked setting a dangerous precedent carrying significant costs for families and businesses that rely on uninterrupted federal aid. Some party lawmakers on Tuesday even called on the Senate to hold off on confirming Vought to lead OMB, as they look to gather more answers from the administration.

“The scope of what you are ordering is breathtaking, unprecedented, and will have devastating consequences across the country,” warned Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut) and Sen. Patty Murray (Washington), the top Democrats on their chambers’ appropriations committees, in a letter to the OMB.

The scramble began a day earlier, after the White House budget office circulated a list of spending programs under scrutiny that seemed to implicate virtually every function of the federal government. The funds it identified for review included a vast array of initiatives that help the poor, potentially arresting funds that provide rental vouchers, nutrition benefits and college aid to low-income Americans.

The administration also pointed to federal programs that inspect meat, poultry and eggs for potential foodborne illnesses, and payments to farmers whose crops are ravaged by natural disasters. And they included a sizable roster of initiatives to protect public health, seemingly aiming to freeze money meant to fight the spread of AIDS, research cancer causes and detection, and prepare for bioterrorism attacks.

“In some ways this is tantamount to a federal government shutdown,” said Sharon Parrott, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning group, speaking before a court blocked the spending freeze. “There’s nothing here to say at 5 p.m. this evening these things will continue, and funding will continue to flow. It’s destructive chaos that will hurt real people.”

As the initial guidance roiled federal agencies, OMB officials soon tried to clarify their approach. In a follow-up message, they stressed the freeze is not supposed to affect services that provide “direct benefits to individuals,” including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps, according to a copy of the document obtained by The Washington Post.

The Trump administration also said it has set up a process for agencies to work with the White House on evaluating their funding and already has approved “many programs to continue” operating normally. Otherwise, OMB said some spending could come back online in as quickly as a day, as the White House looked to deflect criticism that it had taken radical action.

“To individuals at home who receive direct assistance from the federal government, you will not be impacted by this federal freeze,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters. She later added that the administration is “analyzing the federal government’s spending, which is exactly what the American people elected Donald Trump to do.”

Hannah Knowles, Laura Meckler, Dan Diamond and Rachel Siegel contributed to this report.

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NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
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ti-amie wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:34 pm

Don't forget to scroll to see all of the agencies affected.
I don't see a source cited for this. But let's go along with it for now. I can only speak to the HHS slide. The Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant, the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant (MHBG) , and the Ryan White Block Grant are all congressionally mandated programs. Under existing law, for those who observe and respect it, they can't just be eliminated without congressional authorization. If the truth be told, SAPT and MHBG block grants constitute a fairly small proportion of state public sector substance use and mental health services funding. My company currently provides technical assistance to all states and territories for SAPT and MHBG under a SAMHSA contract.

I'm pretty sure the same applies to the Maternal Health Block Grant and the Community Health Centers (CHC) program. I think both are congressionally mandated.

In case you didn't know, Community Health Centers are the only source of medical care for millions of people in the United States who rely on public sector-funded services for basic medical care and referrals to specialists. CHCs are basically the bottom of the barrel in the nation's health care safety net.

If that unsourced Reddit post is true, people will die. And I am NOT being dramatic.
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