Editor’s Note: While this is certainly good news, the Constitution doesn’t allow for any federal grants or loans from the Treasury, zero, zip, nada. All of them should be eliminated.
President Trump paused all federal grants and loans pending a review to align spending with his priorities. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt assured Americans that payments like food stamps, welfare, Medicare, and Social Security would not be affected. Leavitt added that the Biden administration spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza, which Hamas terrorists reportedly used to create improvised explosive device-carrying balloons. Other controversial authorized purchases include $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia, according to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast. (Free Press)
The use of 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.”
What does this federal funding pause mean?
– No more funding for illegal DEI programs
– No more funding for the Green New Scam
– No more funding for transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracyDay one, and @PressSec means business ? pic.twitter.com/P0JLTWemog
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 28, 2025
Of course, the pigs at the trough are not happy:
? JUST IN: New York Attorney General Letitia James sues the Trump administration after federal funding for many programs was temporarily paused.
She called it "unconstitutional."
"We will not stand for any illegal policy [putting us] at risk."pic.twitter.com/cJyI58x61i
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 28, 2025
The temporary moratorium, detailed in an Office of Management and Budget memo first obtained by independent journalist Marisa Kabas and published on Bluesky Monday, applies to all federal grants, an unnamed source familiar with the order told the Washington Post.
The pause becomes effective at 5 p.m. EST Tuesday and agencies are required to report to the Office of Management and Budget by Feb. 10 which programs and activities they have paused.
Agencies must examine which programs conflict with Trump’s executive orders to halt government spending that falls under “financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal,” according to the memo.
All federal agencies must also task “a senior political appointee” to monitor spending “to ensure federal financial assistance conforms to administration priorities.”
The pause does not apply to Social Security and Medicare payments or “financial assistance provided directly to individuals,” and OMB could grant other exceptions on a “case-by-case basis.”
Full memo here – outlining what is and isn’t impacted by OMB pause on federal funds for a period of review
Document shows pause is not across the board, but limited to programs impacted by executive orders such as ending DE, the Green New Deal, and NGOs that “undermine the… https://t.co/1AknxYbIVY pic.twitter.com/5z5l6QqV9H
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) January 28, 2025
Full memo here – outlining what is and isn’t impacted by OMB pause on federal funds for a period of review
Document shows pause is not across the board, but limited to programs impacted by executive orders such as ending DE, the Green New Deal, and NGOs that “undermine the… https://t.co/1AknxYbIVY pic.twitter.com/5z5l6QqV9H
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) January 28, 2025
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller
