OMB freezes all DOMESTIC and foreign disbursements | OMB order rescinded (but maybe not?)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



White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion​

Trillions of dollars could be on hold, according to an Office of Management and Budget memo.

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The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.

In a two-page document, Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, instructs federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.” The memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, also calls for each agency to perform a “comprehensive analysis” to ensure its grant and loan programs are consistent with President Donald Trump’s executive orders, which aimed to ban federal diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and limit clean energy spending, among other measures.

The memo states its orders should not be “construed” to impact Social Security or Medicare recipients, and also says the federal financial assistance put on hold “does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.”

But the document says programs affected are “including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.”
The order may impact at least tens of billions of dollars in payments, said Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a center-right think tank.

The memo also states that of the $10 trillion “that the Federal Government spent [in fiscal year 2024, which ended Sept. 30, 2024], more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans.” It was not immediately clear where those figures came from; the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the government spent $6.7 trillion in the 2024 fiscal year. …”
 
“… The order’s legality may be contested, but the president is generally allowed under the law to defer spending for a period of time, according to budget experts. To comply, though, Trump must make clear which budget accounts are frozen, Kogan said, and the budget office’s order may not provide sufficient grounds under the law to pause the funding.

… G. William Hoagland, senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center, said the administration should be legally able to pause the money temporarily but would need to submit a formal request to Congress to do so beyond a set window.

Still, Hoagland and other budget experts have expressed concern about Trump’s promises to wrest spending control away from Congress. Hoagland said he fears the deferral could be a precursor to a broader assertion of executive spending power. …”
 
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Office of Management and Budget announced all federal agencies would be forced to suspend payments — with the exception of Social Security and Medicare.

“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,” according to the memo, which three people authenticated.

The new order could affect billions of dollars in grants to state and local governments while causing disruptions to programs that benefit many households. There was also widespread confusion over how the memo would be implemented and whether it would face legal challenges.

… While the memo says the funding pause does not include assistance “provided directly to individuals,” for instance, it does not clarify whether that includes money sent first to states or organizations and then provided to households.

The brief memo also does not detail all payments that will be halted. However, it broadly orders federal agencies to “temporarily” stop sending federal financial assistance that could be affected by Trump’s executive actions.

That includes the president’s orders to freeze all funding from the Democrats’ signature climate and spending law — the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure package enacted in 2021. It also imposes a 90-day freeze on foreign aid. …”
 
FEMA grants halted? Unknown but appears yes — FEMA funds a ton of preparedness and disaster response aid that goes to states and localities, not individuals.

Here is a list:

www.fema.gov

FEMA Grants

Grant funds are available for pre and post emergency or disaster related projects. These funds support critical recovery initiatives, innovative research and many other programs. Grants are the principal funding mechanism FEMA uses to commit and award federal funding to eligible state, local...
www.fema.gov www.fema.gov
 
altmin said:
wonder if they will have these grants going back up by college football season. Going to be hard to run the NIL machine, when the everyday operations of a public University, like many of the SEC and BIG Ten schools are, have been starved of federal grant money.

Would be a shame if Red America didn't get their gladiator games.
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I think it’s clear this administration intends to wreck industries they believe to be liberal - including higher ed.
 
I suppose go ahead and merge the thread I started on this several hours ago.

Saw it and then proceeded to lie in bed until 4:30 or so. Couldn’t sleep
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
I suppose go ahead and merge the thread I started on this several hours ago.

Saw it and then proceeded to lie in bed until 4:30 or so. Couldn’t sleep
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Sorry! I looked for one and didn’t see it. Assumed someone must have already started one.
 
Merged in Sooner’s earlier thread.

These guys are taking a chainsaw to government generally and science in particular. Failure to fund grants means that there is no money to pay researchers, but their equipment, etc. until this is resolved. Terminate all health science communications. Immediate withdrawal from WHO. Proposals floating about taxing the tuition waivers for (mostly STEM) postgraduate education.
 
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There are hardly any material state expenditures on infrastructure or healthcare or housing or transportation or first responders that don’t rely in part on federal matching funds. All of which just got frozen indefinitely.

It is insane. These funds are already allocated.
 
nycfan said:
FEMA grants halted? Unknown but appears yes — FEMA funds a ton of preparedness and disaster response aid that goes to states and localities, not individuals.

Here is a list:

www.fema.gov

FEMA Grants

Grant funds are available for pre and post emergency or disaster related projects. These funds support critical recovery initiatives, innovative research and many other programs. Grants are the principal funding mechanism FEMA uses to commit and award federal funding to eligible state, local...
www.fema.gov www.fema.gov
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I would be interested in a link showing public assistance to counties, states, cities is being temp. halted.
 
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