The Trump administration abruptly reversed course and rescinded its order to pause federal grants, loans and other financial-assistance programs.
The Wall Street Journal reported the decision comes one day after a federal judge temporarily blocked the directive from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which was issued on Monday. The order created confusion, as specific programs to be paused were not identified.
In its original announcement of the pause, the Trump administration said the OMB directive was designed to comply with Trump’s executive orders to erase “Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies” from federal programs. A coalition of 23 Democratic state attorneys general said they planned to file a lawsuit to stop the funding freeze, which they alleged was unconstitutional.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X, “This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court’s injunction. The President’s EO’s on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented.”
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so when will we know which Federal Programs will be frozen. Lot of anxiety is created. Plus is it accurate that the freezing will not pertain to Social Security Recipients, health insurance companies which would cause insured not to get the medicial assistance they need…? If you could expand so the people can future understand and reduce alarm in some families.
Thank you
This article states this:
….Trump’s executive orders (were designed) to erase “Marxist equity, transgenderism, and Green New Deal social engineering policies” from federal programs.
It is clear that neither Trump nor his advisors ever have dipped their collective toes into even the shallowest waters of (original) Marxist/Engels ideology, nor have they examined whether OR NOT (so called) Communist Russia and Communist China actually embraced the ideals of Marx & Engels, which neither country did to the extent promised, not even close.
Whether you agree with original Mark/Engels ideas or not, the reality is that Marx & Engels would have vomited had they seen how Communist Russia and Communist China twisted their ideas into a perverse abuse of power, not unlike what Capitalism did in Europe and in the U.S., and in other emerging Capitalistic nations in the Americas.
A common joke is that “Under Communism, Man Exploits Man. Under Capitalism, It’s the Opposite”.
But Under Both, the natural (wild) environment and animals were and are abused and pillaged too.
The abuses under Communist Russia and Communist China and Capitalistic Europe and Capitalistic American nations are in frightening parallel, despite each ideology claiming that they would create better conditions and more freedoms for more people. Yes, some people did very well under both systems, while many others suffered greatly, and under both political systems huge concentrations of wealth and power have occurred.
Neither system wants to talk about who has lost and how many have lost and what has been lost.
Each philosophy likes to tell the “happy stories” while leaving out the critical atrocities against people and nature.
Industrialism has provided a much faster pace of resource pillaging, both in Capitalistic nations and in Communist nations. We are still seeing that pillaging accelerating across the globe.
Trump’s reference to wanting to end Marxist Equity, Transgender, and Green ideals and insinuating that Communist Russia and Communist China embraced Equity, Transgenderism and Green New Deal policies is absurd in the extreme.
Again, None of the big Communist nations embraced original Marx/Engels ideals.
Quite the opposite.
Transgender freedoms in Communist Russia & Communist China?
Give me a break! LGBT etc. in both Communist nations have been heavily persecuted during most of their histories. This also has been true in Capitalistic Europe and the Americas too, with only very recent improvements for LGBT etc., but those rights have long been targeted by conservatives to roll back those rights, despite many conservatives being LGBT (or bizarrely hyper curious about it).
It’s sad to see people hide in the closet and join their own enemies.
Weird and hypocritical.
But joining the enemy under the promise of protection is a common aspect of human history.
Equity in Communist Russia & Communist China?
The promises of worker rights and fair pay and control over their production did not pan out as promised would happen in Communist Russia or Communist China. Instead, workers routinely were over-worked, underpaid, in unsafe working conditions, and the powerful pocketed the profits and became enormously wealthy, just like what was happening in the U.S. and European nations under Capitalism.
This is why Unions rose up in the first place in the U.S. and in Europe and why Marx /Engels were seeking better conditions and pay for the labor classes. Capitalists did not want labor rights and were fighting Unions and the ideals of Marx/Engels at the same time.
Surprisingly, it was under the Mormon, Brigham Young, that Marxist philosophies took their best hold in the U.S., at least in the earlier years of the Brigham Young Mormon plan in Utah. That’s a fascinating dive into Brigham’s disgust at brutal Capitalism and its resulting poverty vs. extreme wealth, and it is why Brigham laid out a pretty close (original) Marxist plan that was highly attractive to many poor people in both the U.S. and in Europe who joined Brigham Young in Utah.
Green New Deal in Communist Russia & Communist China?
There was NO “Green New Deal” in Soviet Russia and in Communist China. Extremely poor management of lands, waters, soils, and industries led to massive pollution and resource shortages, including staggering food shortages. Several massive famines occurred in the Soviet Union and Communist China with tens of millions of people dying in just a few short years. This made global news and is why kids even in my era were told to eat all their food because “think about those poor starving people in China”.
That is NOT Marxist equity, unless you call millions starving together as being “equity”.
Europe and the U.S. under Capitalism have had similarly terrible management of resource, with poverty and hunger, droughts and floods, decline of fisheries, water shortages, destruction of soils, rising costs of food, more crop diseases & livestock diseases (some turning into human diseases and poisonings), etc.
These horrible resource management policies are recurring themes in Europe and the Americas, though Europe is making some improvements, better than in the U.S.
The explosion of pesticides, herbicides, GMO, Factory Farmed Livestock and Factory farmed Fish & Shrimp, and engineered stem cell derived meats grown in factories are all the signs of grossly mismanaged wild resources that were once astonishingly abundant across the U.S. and Europe until brutal Capitalism destroyed nature’s once free services and resiliency.
Hunger throughout U.S. history under Capitalism is well documented, including the more recent Dust Bowl Era and into modern days.
The U.N. global science reports are predicting massive increases in starvation and 80% destruction of remaining forests and shrubs within the next 25 years if we do NOT reverse course within the next few years. Global Scientists have been warning about this for many decades, and few people realize where we are heading. We’ve pushed nature beyond its limits, and neither twisted Capitalism nor twisted Communism will save us.
This is what happens when perverted science, perverted industrial methods, perverted ideologies, perverted religions, and egotistical and idiotic selfish people (many of whom were and are highly educated) combine to create havoc on people and nature.
Communism and Capitalism share this same pattern, but each philosophy points blaming fingers at the other.
Strangely, the best (kindest) versions of Jesus match much closer to original Marx/Engels ideals.
Jesus is said to have asked people to “give the shirt off your back” to those who need it, and comparing himself to the poor by saying “how you treat the least among you is how you treat me”.
Marx/Engels were NOT nearly as communistic as the Jesus stories would ask people to be.
Marx/Engels were simply proposing that people be treated well, with equity, with power and benefits under their own work, with each person working according to their abilities and receiving according to their needs. That’s pretty mild communism compared to the extreme level of self-sacrifice that Jesus requests of people. But Jesus ended up on a Cross, so asking people to be that generous comes with a heavy price.
Trump has aligned himself with the Christian Conservatives, and other religious conservatives. He often pretends to be The Messiah for these people.
Yet, Trump rails against equity and inclusion, but the New Testament stories are of a Jesus who sought out the disenfranchised, the outcasts, and he helped the poor.
Those are the stories that Christians say they support, but many do not.
Trump and his supporters often blather about Jesus and Christianity, but they are the most resistant to the best and kindest teachings of Jesus.
Isn’t that the hypocrisy that Jesus warned about?