The White House Management and Budget Office has put a temporary hold on all federal grants and loans starting today so that the Trump Administration can review spending that was approved during the Biden Administration.
The freeze impacts the trillions of taxpayer dollars that the government gives to states for nonprofits, health, health research, and student loan programs.
The main concerns the Administration has are wasteful use of taxpayer dollars, Marxist programs, and the weaponization of government against Americans.
“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,” the memo from Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, states.
The memo directs agencies to conduct a comprehensive analysis to ensure grants and loans are consistent with Trump’s executive orders to end discriminatory hiring programs known as “diversity, equity and inclusion,” and to scale back the spending on things like wind turbines, which have a low return on investment for energy.
The memo carves out exemptions for Social Security and Medicare recipients and the temporary hold does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.
Medicaid, however, is impacted, since Medicaid is being used to pay for genital mutilation surgeries and hormone medications and other drugs for the transgender population that qualifies for such aid.
In fiscal year 2022, Alaska received $2.6 billion in Medicaid funding. Tribes in Alaska receive hundreds of millions of dollars that are, for now, not flowing to their bank accounts.
Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing the Trump administration to prevent any pause in the flow of dollars to New York
“My office will be taking imminent legal action against this administration’s unconstitutional pause on federal funding,” she said on X/Twitter.
In addition to a pause in grants in order to review misuse of funds, some of the Deep State career bureaucrats who are not complying with the president’s executive orders are being cleaned out.
Several senior staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development were placed on immediate administrative leave after they failed to comply with an executive order halting certain types of foreign aid.
Jason Gray, acting director of USAID, wrote in an email to staff that he had “identified several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President’s Executive Order and the mandate from the American people. As a result, we have placed a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until further notice while we complete our analysis of these actions.”
Yay! Thank you Trump for cleaning up the swamp!
He better set his alarm clock and not sleep in on this one. Miss his tee time. Because he’s got student loans to process and fema clean up just to name a few.
And the price of eggs is way up in just one week. Good job MAGA!
France just offered to send troops to Greenland to defend them against Trump. Price of French fries is up too. Lmao.
that is 100% correct on freedom fries in AOC’s mind just like the price of coffee from Columbia’s 30-sec tuff guy act!
Your post are just plain crazy, you really can’t believe this gibberish you post, do you?
LOL
No possible way you could actually be that dense.
Lighten up. It was a joke….a good one
just like a true democrat, you got called out on your ridicule’s post & now are trying to make it seem like a joke!
You folks are all the same!
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Most FEMA shouldn’t be in this, due to fema is helping recovery of diseasters
Wow, Forkner! Very edgy. Trump golfs once in his first week and you’re losing your mind. And while he was golfing, he gave the Columbian president a thrashing and still forced him to take his criminal illegals and pay for the flights. Trump has done more for the country in one week than Biden did during four years of sitting on the beach, napping and falling off his bike.
That’s Mr. FORKNER to you son.
Respect has to be earned.
bydumb took 532 vacation days in less than four years — about 40% of the 1, 326 days he’s been in office.
That is about 48 years worth of vacation!
forkner these are facts & the truth, 2 things you dimlibbys hate the most!
It appears you have the makings of a CEO.
Well….thank you.
Some of the employees are on “administrative leave” with full pay and benefits. So they get a paid vacation because they are making wrong decisions about funding? That seems wrong somehow.
You cannot just fire a government employees. But this is the best available option for now.
I agree, but it was not their fault. Their work assignments, and priorities were set by their boss. Their employment should not be terminated casually. That would be even more wrong.
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But, if it turns out these people have no other purpose, or capabilities, than pushing DIE ideology, then yes. Send them packing. Otherwise, find them new work to do that supports the mission. Sometimes that takes time, and placing them on paid leave is the least worst of the options.
Sounds Marxist to me.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Open Alaska to development and get out of the government funding spin cycle.
I hope this includes grants being denied to the climate apocalypse hoax $cientists.
The Left are losing their minds, as this pause is to determine what the money is for….
Trying to pencil in his 15% to the Trump crime family.
LOL
& here is ANOTHER of greg’s hilariously stupid comments!
meds greg meds, stay on em!
Projecting much? Your lord and savior “Big Guy” Biden was the one who was getting the kickbacks from China. So much so that he had to pardon he and his family with just 15 minutes left in his term in office.
Where did you dig up the 15% number? Is it random, or do you have something more than your abject hatred of President Trump to support it?
To the President’s great credit, he and those around him understand that the Left REQUIRES government funding to advance their ideology. If government money – and government jobs – are cut off, the neo-Marxist plan promptly collapses. Let the bleeding and crying continue.
Good I’m glad to see these nonprofits and the states that are wasting our taxpayer money are called to the carpet.
Anybody that wants to try to sue the federal government or want money from the government for stupid programs should be fired and hauled off to jail for treason.
Purge USAID. This is an example of the administrative state thinking they are above the executive branch.
There will be more “resistance”. Purge them all.
+1
Trump means what he says he will do. God bless this man for routing out the evil in our corrupt government.
Felon47 dictatorship is lasting a lot longer than day 1. The lies he speaks, and the MAGA goes keep draining the swamp. Felon47 and his billionaire buddies are draining the swamp of all the money they can. Congress has the power of the purse not Felon47. Infrastructure plan passed with bipartisan support and was set to deliver all sorts of projects for Alaska is now on hold subject to his whims. Suck up to the king or suffer the consequences.
Felon47? Yeah, I used to listen to them back in the 90s.
The biggest group of people in the US getting food stamps are children. I hope they feel the sting.
A little support to those in need is always admirable. However, nobody should be terminal welfare recipients. These systems were intended to give the less fortunate a helping hand while they get their life together. They were not intended to keep people permanently dependent on government handouts.
Perhaps this will be incentive for people who have chosen to have children instead of choosing abstinence to get out and get a job.
Personal responsibility > taxpayer parasitism.
Get a damn job you bums!
This is why we support Making America Great Again and not promoting those to remain in perpetual victimhood.
You just shamed your soul.
What I find amusing about the left is that they cry “fascism” when someone simply raises a simple disagreement with any of their thoughts. Adding to their hypocrisy over “free speech” is not one of their social media platforms has any open public comments allowed. On the rare occasion they do, its heavily monitored.
But somehow, they swear all us Trump supporters are “fascists” and “bigots” and “close minded”.
Ha! That what the right does. Always have. I was there.
In the past four decades I have yet to hear a single person on the right point their finger and claim a (D)emocrat was a fascist. Even when that (D) was a textbook example. It’s hard to throw a dead cat nowadays and not hit a (D) calling someone a fascist.
A BIG YES!! Stop printing money to support people that do NOT need it. This is going to go a long way toward stopping the inflation that is WHOLELY created by the printing of money for 501 3 C corporations to enrich the people running that scam.
Well, if anybody in your family is unfortunate enough to need Medicaid, I sure hope you’re now ready to fork over the cash to help them.
Or maybe that’s not in your nature. I mean mercy is so out of style these days.
It is so easy to be “charitable” with money robbed from others at the point of a gun.
I would remind you that Medicaid is a State run program? While it does receive Federal Funding, the individual States provide a measurable amount of the funds. If the individual states do not have enough funding to cover the expenses for a short period, that is the State’s problem, not the Federal Government’s
Shut down the professional left money laundering industry- excellent!
Here is just a small snippet of the billions of dollars of taxpayer money that was spent by the biden politburo on absolute degeneracy-
‘https://x.com/restoreorderusa/status/1884239763135422640
Until about 1940 the Federal Government spent generally less than 5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), from about 1940 until 1960 it was about 15%, and since 1960 until present it has been about 30% of GDP. The Federal Government does not drive the economy, it is a parasite on the economy.
Part of the recently announced spending pauses was on millions of dollars spent om contraceptives to Gaza. Hamas used those condoms provided by US taxpayers to create fire bombs to attack Israel. When our government spends money for contraceptives used by terrorists as fire bombs, that’s a sign that our government is spending too much.
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I hope someone keeps a tab on the expenses of getting nothing done
Cruelty alone is no longer the point. Now it’s cruelty as entertainment for the MAGA base. Why just look at those poor Liberals down on the Coliseum floor when the golden “Trump” door opens!!
Always the Showman, he is (and honestly, nothing more).
All the world’s a stage and it’s people merely players.
This is the game of life. If you have too weak a character to play the game, it is nobody else’s responsibility to play the game for you.
The parasites of society have had plenty of time to ride with training wheels. Time for them to learn to balance for themselves.
A mother bird casting its offspring from the nest is not a form of cruelty, but an essential step in learning how to fly.
Make better choices, learn from your mistakes, get it by your hands.
I know.
How cruel of the adults to expect everyone to be responsible for their own actions. It is such a bad thing, terrible.
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Oh… the poor third generation welfare people. Whatever will they do? (HINT: Trump is deporting the people who are working the unskilled labor jobs. Go get a job.) Oh.. the poor NGO that is actively fighting against fire prevention measures in California will have to stop that effort. Disasters will happen…
Regardless of success, for the first time since Reagan, someone is actually trying to reign in the swamp.
Trump is retaliation for the 2 impeachment. Still butt hurt i reckon.
The funding freeeze is holding up two wind turbines for Kotzebue funded in the Inflation Recovery Act. Two less turbines, more $6/gallon diesel fuel used, lowering the PFD, you get what you elect.
Yep and thank God for it. I know you’re still sore from Kamala’s huge loss Frank but wind turbines are by most metrics….a big waste. You should probably do some research on the downside of these very expensive devices. But not from the same source that told you we should use hot air balloons to transport heavy metals from the coast.
Oooooof.
Do you hear that sound, Frank?
It is the sound of my finger violin.
Wind turbines are a complete waste of funding. They will never show a ROI. Not from a financial standpoint, nor from an energy standpoint.
mission creep. largest landslide victory ever and what have we got? fire all cannons, we’ll hit something
Yeah. Less than 1% landslide. Lol