Donald Trump’s White House ordered a stagnation in all federal grants and loans starting on Tuesday, a comprehensive decision that can host education and health care programs, housing assistance, disaster relief and other initiatives that billions of federal dollars Are dependent on.
In a memorandum on Monday, the acting head of the management and budget office, who oversee the federal budget, said that the money will be kept, while the Trump administration reviews the grant and loan to ensure that they the priorities of the President Aligned with, Executive Order He signed to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs last week.
Acting Director Matthew Vath said that the President’s agenda uses federal resources for policies on obstacles “Taxpayer is a waste of dollar that does not improve the day-to-day life we serve.”
Memo said the freeze includes “foreign aid” and “for NGOs”, any money between other categories.
The White House stated that the break would not affect social security or medicare payment or “aid provided directly to individuals”. This would probably give up food aid for poor and disability payments, although it was not clear whether health care programs would be affected for veterans and low -income people.
The OMB memorandum stated that the federal government spent around $ 10 trillion in the financial year 2024, with more than $ 3 trillion financial assistance such as grants and loans. But the source of those figures was not clear – the budget office of the Nonpartison Congress estimated the government’s expenses in 2024.
The Memo Trump administration has the latest instructions to reopen dramatically to the country’s largest employer federal government.
Last week, in an urgent storm of executive work, the new President closed all diversity programs, set up a hiring freeze, sent home to the national security officers, ordered a stay in foreign aid and the security of jobs from thousands of civil servants Demand to remove.
The expenses ordered by OMB are effective at ET (2200 GMT) on Tuesday at 5 pm on Tuesday. Agencies have till 10 February to submit detailed information on any program under suspension.
Democrats challenge ‘illegal’ move
The federal government provides money to a wide health of non -profit organizations, many of which reacted with disappointment.
“This order is a potential five-alarm fire for non-profit organizations and those and communities, which they are Chairman of National Council of Non-Profits,” said Dyne Yentale, president and CEO of National Council of Non-Profits and CEO. And CEO Dyane Yentel said in a statement. Life can be. “
Democrats immediately challenged Trump’s action as illegal and dangerous.
On Monday, in a letter to Late Vath, American senator Patty died and American representative Rose Deloro, top Democrats in Congress Application Committees, said the order would “be breathtaking, unprecedented and disastrous consequences across the country.”
Democrats wrote, “We today urge you in the strongest possible words to maintain law and constitution and ensure that all federal resources are given according to the law.”
The Senate Democratic leader Chak Shumar said the administration did not have the right to stop the expenditure which was approved by the Congress and this order, if implemented, would harm millions of Americans.
Shumar said, “This means that everything will be remembered by payroll and rent and everything in the middle: from universities to non-profit donations, state disaster assistance, local law enforcement, assistance to the elderly, and food for the needy people Everything for chaos. ” Post on late X on Monday.
American representative Tom Emerms, No. 3 Republican, at the House of Representatives, said that Trump was following his campaign promises.
Emerms told reporters in a Republican Policy Retreat in Miami, “You need to understand that he was chosen to shake the status quo. He is going to do the same. It is not going to do business as usual.” “
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