The administration of the United States President Donald Trump has frozen funds for widespread federal programs, with experts saying that education, health care, poverty reduction and destruction relief schemes are possible. Can disrupt.
Officials said the decision, which is to be applied to Est (22:00 GMT) at 5pm on Tuesday, is important to ensure that all funds are in accordance with Trump’s priorities, including diversity, equity and joining ( Dei) Their crackdown on measures.
The Office of Management and Budget, which oversees the Federal Budget, said in a memo that the frozen has added any money for “foreign aid” and “non -governmental organizations”, and in other categories. –
The White House said that this period will not affect social protection and medical payments, nor “direct aid to individuals”.
Sources told Reuters News Agency that some food aid programs for the poor will not be affected.
But freezing funds can affect trillions of dollars, at least temporarily, and can cause potential obstacles to healthcare research, education programs and other measures. Even the grants that have been given but have not been spent should be stopped.
Already on Tuesday, state agencies and elementary educational centers are struggling to access money from Medicide. This is a low-income healthcare program-and head start, a scheme that provides early childhood support.
Four groups representing non -profit, healthcare professionals and small businesses filed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s directive on Tuesday, saying it said “hundreds of thousands of grants recipients on the recipients. Will have a devastating effect. “
“Stopping research on childhood cancer treatment, preventing food assistance, protecting domestic violence, and shutting down suicide hotlines, causing a short break in financing and costing May be. ” The National Council of Non -Nafati said in a statement.
His group was among the four groups involved in Tuesday’s case.
The Democratic State Attorney General also promised to fight the order in court.
This includes New York’s Attorney General Letiya James, who says he has asked the Manhattan Federal Court to stop the Republican president’s actions.
James James Said on social media. “We will not sit down with it, while this administration hurts our family.”
Florida -based Democratic Congress member Maxwell Elejandro Frest also said in a social media Post On Tuesday afternoon, his team was on the phone with several agencies and organizations that were “completely cut off from the federal money”.
He wrote, “We are talking about housing, homeless services, public safety,” he warned that “frozen” could have a serious impact “.
We have been on the phone with numerous agencies/orgs. They have been completely disconnected from the federal money. We are talking about housing, homeless services, public safety, etc.
I am calling at a press conference today to explain how it can have a serious local impact on our constituencies.
– Maxwell Elejandro Fresht (Maxwellfrostfl) January 28, 2025
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Shammer said the Trump administration does not have the authority to stop the US Congress’s approved spending.
“This decision is illegal, destructive, cruel,” Shamar said in a speech to the Senate. “These are American families who suffer the most.”
The US Constitution gives Congress control over spending issues, but Trump said during his campaign that he believes the president has the authority to withhold money from dislike programs.
Tom Emer, a Congress member from a top House of Representatives, said Trump was just following his election campaign promises.
“You need to understand that he was chosen to eliminate the stagnation. That’s what he is going to do. This is not going to happen as usual, “Emer told reporters in a Republican policy retreat in Miami.
White House spokesman Crolley Lavit also defended the administration’s decision, saying Tuesday afternoon, saying that Trump and his team were working as “good responsibilities for taxpayers’ dollars.”
He said it was not a blanket on federal aid and grant programs by the Trump administration. Individual aid in which… social security benefits, medical benefits, food stamps, welfare benefits, will have no effect on direct support to individuals.
Levit said that being frozen means “no more financing for illegal DEI programs” or for “Green New Scam”, a term Trump and his allies to deal with the climate crisis President Joe is used to describe Biden’s actions.
“This means that our federal bureaucracy and agencies have no further financial support for transgenderism and awareness,” he said.
After the Office of Management and Budget Memo Trump took office on January 20, the country’s largest employer is the latest guidance to dramatically new shape to the federal government.
Trump has taken dozens of executive measures since the beginning of his second term, which includes shutting down DEI programs and imposing federal hiring freezes.
Last week, the president also signed an executive order, which directed all federal government agencies to pay 90 days on foreign aid and review existing programs.
A few days later, the US Department of State said in a memo that it was suspending almost all new funds for foreign aid programs with the country’s top allies, Israel and Egypt’s exceptions.
As part of the suspension of this aid, the administration has moved forward to prevent drug distribution for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as medical equipment for newborn children, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are in collaboration.
The United States is the largest donor of aid globally, providing 72bn in 2023.
