OMB freezes all DOMESTIC and foreign disbursements | OMB order rescinded (but maybe not?) - BUT - EO still stands (trying to get around stay?)

Go Trump, go!!! Pubs have been sucking disproportionately off the federal teat for decades now, while simultaneously whining about how the federal government should be pared back. Let's see what happens when federal support to red states and vital programs really does dry up. This is what you've been saying you want, Pubs! Hope you enjoy!
 
Icky Mettle said:
As awful his Trump is, I doubt that he is trying to collapse the economy, though he may do so unintentionally. His ego would never allow him to to accept that he could be viewed as a president or presides over a collapsing economy.
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I agree. He is trying to collapse what he perceives as the liberal economy - science, higher education, nonprofits. He will remove regs on other industries - oil, banking, tobacco - your traditional conservative industries.
 
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Trump Opens a Multi-Front War on the U.S. Government

President Trump took an extraordinary and illegal step last night, ordering the impoundment of funds already appropriated by Congress. This move, blatantly unconstitutional, strikes at the core of the separation of powers. A White House
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Trump is attempting to upend the entire system by disregarding the constitutional process outright. This isn’t just a clash of political priorities—it’s a fundamental challenge to the rule of law.

If unchecked, this brazen power grab renders the Constitution meaningless and sets a dangerous precedent.

As Jamelle Bouie notes:

We have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. It’s genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them.
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The Republican-led Congress seems unwilling to challenge Trump on anything.

That leaves the courts as the last line of defense. …”
 

Emmer cheers Trump's federal aid freeze​

The No. 3 House GOP leader called it 'exactly what he was elected to do.'


“… Whip Tom Emmer said in a brief interview on the sidelines of the House GOP retreat that Trump's move — scheduled to take effect at 5 p.m. — signals he's "doing exactly what he was elected to do."

"You're going to see things like this, and your first reaction is going to be, 'Well, this isn't the way it's been done,'" Emmer said. "You need to understand, he was elected to shake up the status quo."

… Emmer, asked what he would tell his GOP members in competitive districts who are now concerned about the freeze, replied: "Get on the team."

Those vulnerable Republicans were already in for a day of tough, closed-door talks at the retreat over the trillions in spending cuts their colleagues are pushing for to pay for Trump's vast agenda.

House Republican Policy Chairman Kevin Hern (R-Okla) said in a separate interview that Trump is making clear that "we're giving aid to people who respect the relationship, not just blanket giving out American taxpayer dollars."

"It's about time right? For you, me and the people receiving the grants," Hern said. "If you're going to cut taxes and send money back home, then you also need to stop the spigot in Washington, D.C. You can't do both." …”

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Congress has the power of the purse. SCOTUS said the line item veto was unconstitutional nearly 30 years ago, and this Trump action goes well beyond that, refusing to disburse funding already passed by Congress and signed by POTUS and in many case under binding contracts to be paid.

This is not just “shaking things up.” It is disregarding existing law and the Constitution and SCOTUS decisions. And the GOP is cheering it on.
 

Trump orders temporary funding freeze that could affect trillions of dollars​


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Trump orders temporary funding freeze that could affect trillions of dollars

"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," said a memo from Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management...
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“… The funding freeze by the Republican administration could affect trillions of dollars and cause widespread disruption in health care research, education programs and other initiatives. Even grants that have been awarded but not spent are supposed to be halted.

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The pause takes effect at 5 p.m. ET, and it’s unclear from the memo how sweeping it will be. Vaeth said that all spending must comply with Trump’s executive orders, which are intended to undo progressive steps on transgender rights, environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, efforts.

Vaeth wrote that “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.”

… Medicare and Social Security benefits will be unaffected by the pause, according to the memo. But there was no explanation of whether the pause would affect Medicaid, food stamps, disaster assistance and other programs. The memo said it should be implemented “to the extent permissible under applicable law.”

“Are you stopping NIH cancer trials?” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, wrote on social media, referring to the National Institutes of Health.

A briefing with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, her first, is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET.

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and Rep. Rose DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrats on the Senate and House appropriations committees, expressed “extreme alarm” in a letter to Vaeth. …”
 
nycfan said:

Emmer cheers Trump's federal aid freeze​

The No. 3 House GOP leader called it 'exactly what he was elected to do.'


“… Whip Tom Emmer said in a brief interview on the sidelines of the House GOP retreat that Trump's move — scheduled to take effect at 5 p.m. — signals he's "doing exactly what he was elected to do."

"You're going to see things like this, and your first reaction is going to be, 'Well, this isn't the way it's been done,'" Emmer said. "You need to understand, he was elected to shake up the status quo."

… Emmer, asked what he would tell his GOP members in competitive districts who are now concerned about the freeze, replied: "Get on the team."

Those vulnerable Republicans were already in for a day of tough, closed-door talks at the retreat over the trillions in spending cuts their colleagues are pushing for to pay for Trump's vast agenda.

House Republican Policy Chairman Kevin Hern (R-Okla) said in a separate interview that Trump is making clear that "we're giving aid to people who respect the relationship, not just blanket giving out American taxpayer dollars."

"It's about time right? For you, me and the people receiving the grants," Hern said. "If you're going to cut taxes and send money back home, then you also need to stop the spigot in Washington, D.C. You can't do both." …”

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Congress has the power of the purse. SCOTUS said the line item veto was unconstitutional nearly 30 years ago, and this Trump action goes well beyond that, refusing to disburse funding already passed by Congress and signed by POTUS and in many case under binding contracts to be paid.

This is not just “shaking things up.” It is disregarding existing law and the Constitution and SCOTUS decisions. And the GOP is cheering it on.
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100% agree. It's another example of Trump blatantly violating the law and daring anyone to do something about it, which is exceptionally dangerous to the republic. And, at the same time, red states are about to get absolutely fucked if this spigot remains closed. So, while I'll never support a president intentionally violating the law, I have no qualms whatsoever about morons like Emmer and Hern having to answer to their constituents for the immense pain they're about the endure.
 
I work in the non-profit sector. A lot of our work and the work of our peer agencies are funding, in part, by federal grants received via the state with our agencies as sub-grantees.

For some of these grant streams, the state has already received the entire grant year's (Oct-Sept) funding and they parcel the funds out to us on a monthly basis. Those grants should be fine.

For others, we provide requisitions to the state who pays us for expenses related to services provided and then the state expenses the federal government for those expenses to be reimbursed what they pay us. In theory, the state could continue to pay us while awaiting payment from the federal government for a brief period of time, which is what I hope will happen on a large scale.

A few bigger projects are funded directly via the federal government. Those projects will almost certainly not get paid until the money is released by the federal government. (My agency does/did not have these grants. Whew.)

The other question going around right now is what kind of changes will be required before funding can be received again. In nearly all federal grants, the recipients and sub-recipients - as a part of the grant application and selection process - show how they will engage with underserved communities (read: racial/ethnic minorities, LGBTQ populations, etc) to ensure they receive services equally and that we seek employees from those communities for our programs, as possible.

I am curious if this effort is going to penalize or withhold funds from recipients and sub-recipients who have structured their projects/programs as demanded by the federal government through the grant/funding application process that this directly contradicts. Or what steps recipients and sub-recipients will have to show that they undertaken to undo these features before funding will be restored. (And this also raises issues of what happens if these new rules/guidelines are changed and now contradict state funding guidelines/rules previously based on federal standards.)

In the grant scheme of things, I am not at all important in these discussions and even at my level the emails are flying fast and furious about the impacts and implications of this action.
 
I work in state government. There's a lot of panic, as we rely heavily on federal grants to conduct our work. The even scarier step, that is not getting nearly enough attention, is the coming purge of experts in civil service. The nonpolitical hires are the ones that allow the government to function in every field and I suspect many of them will be gone soon.
 
altmin said:
It's the Bannon fever dream - destroy it to rebuild it into your own Christo-Corporate fiefdom.

America deserves what it is getting. This could have been stopped at the ballot box, but too many people DGAF. Well....
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Exactly. He is trying to destroy it all and rebuild it exactly into what you said. People are either too stupid to realize this was going to happen, or they don't care because they are either rich and greedy, and/or racists, bigots, and Christin nationalists who don't care if this ruins the country as long as they get the fascist country they want for straight white Christian nationalists like them.
 
Icky Mettle said:
As awful his Trump is, I doubt that he is trying to collapse the economy, though he may do so unintentionally. His ego would never allow him to to accept that he could be viewed as a president or presides over a collapsing economy.
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No, he would just say it had to be done so he could make it better.
 
SnoopRob said:
I work in the non-profit sector. A lot of our work and the work of our peer agencies are funding, in part, by federal grants received via the state with our agencies as sub-grantees.

For some of these grant streams, the state has already received the entire grant year's (Oct-Sept) funding and they parcel the funds out to us on a monthly basis. Those grants should be fine.

For others, we provide requisitions to the state who pays us for expenses related to services provided and then the state expenses the federal government for those expenses to be reimbursed what they pay us. In theory, the state could continue to pay us while awaiting payment from the federal government for a brief period of time, which is what I hope will happen on a large scale.

A few bigger projects are funded directly via the federal government. Those projects will almost certainly not get paid until the money is released by the federal government. (My agency does/did not have these grants. Whew.)

The other question going around right now is what kind of changes will be required before funding can be received again. In nearly all federal grants, the recipients and sub-recipients - as a part of the grant application and selection process - show how they will engage with underserved communities (read: racial/ethnic minorities, LGBTQ populations, etc) to ensure they receive services equally and that we seek employees from those communities for our programs, as possible.

I am curious if this effort is going to penalize or withhold funds from recipients and sub-recipients who have structured their projects/programs as demanded by the federal government through the grant/funding application process that this directly contradicts. Or what steps recipients and sub-recipients will have to show that they undertaken to undo these features before funding will be restored. (And this also raises issues of what happens if these new rules/guidelines are changed and now contradict state funding guidelines/rules previously based on federal standards.)

In the grant scheme of things, I am not at all important in these discussions and even at my level the emails are flying fast and furious about the impacts and implications of this action.
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They will probably try to make it where those people don't get any help from the government at all.
 
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