President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has ordered all federal agencies to temporarily block the disbursement of most grants and loans.
According to a Roll Call report, the block does not involve Social Security, Medicare and other programs providing direct aid to individuals. The temporary pause, which goes into effect today at 5:00 p.m. EST, is based on what an OMB memo said was to ensure agencies were in compliance with Trump’s executive orders to erase “Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies” from federal programs.
“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,” wrote Acting OMB Director Matthew Vaeth in the memo. “This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President’s policies and requirements.”
Among the programs that could be impacted are the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant Program and Environmental Protection Agency grants to states and localities for clean water infrastructure. Reports from the federal agencies on all accounts subject to the pause are scheduled to be submitted to the OMB by Feb. 10.
The OMB memo added that each federal assistance program will be assigned to “a senior political appointee to ensure Federal financial assistance conforms to Administrative priorities.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) condemned the action for “blatantly” disobeying the law.
“Donald Trump’s administration is jeopardizing billions upon billions of community grants and financial support that help millions of people across the country,” Schumer said. “It will mean missed payrolls and rent payments and everything in between: chaos for everything from universities to nonprofit charities.”
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President Trump is working in the citizen’s behalf to discontinue abuse and mismanagement in federal agencies. This is long overdue
Just wait until you get your Federal aid zapped!
GOD BLESS TRUMP!
keeping his word on everything he said he would do. Most important thing to cut is the hundreds of Millions of dollars Biden and Kamala were handing out to Millions of Illegal Alien immigrants including Criminals that they allowed to walk right into this country!!
DEPORT DEPORT!!!!!
Kudos to Trump!
All these “Grants” grant nothing but pork and useful spending.
If you believe in a “Cause for the betterment of ANYTHING”
Then by all means reach into your own pockets and donate to your choice of “”research”
Where is all the money from all the “not for profits” organizations..
Yeah, remind me again how they help out society?
Hmm no cure for:
Cancer
Lou gherigs
Still high poverty rates and growing amongst our Veterans/Children
Donations to Red Cross aren’t even helping the people from ravaged in-natural storms and fires.
The list is larger than we think..
Same with the bogus grants
Trump is causing Chaos, just to cause Chaos; He is doing so much damage to the country and the democracy and that it will take the Democrats 4 years to reverse all of the Chaos that Trump is causing. So much for unifying the country. I wonder which country is pulling his strings, It certainly is not the USA.
chaos
When Trump’s bad guys stormed the capital on Jan 6th, the rant that was heard inside the capital was :hang Mike Pence” Since then all of those outlaws have been pardoned. Would it be the same scenario, if the charge was to “hang Trump “Would the outlaws be pardoned since Trump was not legally in office at that time.