Trump freezes ALL federal grants!

The court will shoot this down. It is a version of a line item veto.

There is an impoundment law that sets up the ability to do this legally, but Trump does not care about the law.

"Mandate" bull turds. He did not even get a majority of the popular vote. (Even with a majority the idea of a "mandate" is pretty stupid).

If he wants to cut spending (and he did not his first term) then work with Congress to pass a budget in the next fiscal year through the constitutional process.

that the memo was initially misreported and does not constitute a funding freeze on federal financial assistance across the board. The official said the pause is expressly limited to programs, projects, and activities that may be impacted by President Donald Trump's executive orders, such as ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the Green New Deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations that the White House suspect undermine national interest.

The memo exempts any program that provides direct benefits to Americans from the review process. That includes Social Security, Medicare and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the official said

Oh my gosh, you're right. The resemblance is uncanny!

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I voted for her but only because she was slightly better than this guy in terms of keeping our country a democracy but she fell short everywhere else.

We need someone else. The system is pretty broken when we are unable to find our best leaders to contend for the highest offices.

The memo says what it says. It is creating mass confusion because it is fundamentally stupid, not because it has been "misreported."

What criteria, other than "partisan gut-instinct," determines whether an NGO undermines the national interest? What, specifically, is a DEI policy? What does it mean to promote "gender ideology"? The administration is using far-right catchphrases as if they are legal definitions. The Trumpanzees can and will misconstrue virtually any federal program as being "woke" or "dei" or "green new deal" (WHICH DOESN'T EVEN EXIST!!!) because such terms don't actually mean anything. This is an incredibly broad order and everyone who receives federal grant funding should assume it applies to them.

Cutting off medical care to the primary demographic that voted for you a week into the job is ... certainly a choice.

themirror.com

Medicaid portals 'down nationwide' after Trump's federal funding pause

https://www.themirror.com/authors/yelena-mandenberg/

Senator Ron Wyden warns that Medicaid portals are down nationwide following a federal funding freeze, putting millions of Americans' healthcare at risk

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That's great, keep us updated.

Anyone else find it interesting how there's supposedly TONS of wasteful government spending, but for some reason, Trump in his first term raised the deficit to record levels and spent like crazy, and now in his 2nd term, he just cut all grants without regard to what they went to? If there's so much wasteful spending, why not get rid of some of it?

Republicans spent 4 years asking "What is a woman" and laughing at whatever response the left gave because it's biology 101, and it turned out the best they could come up with was your sex at conception, to which actual biologists are rightfully pointing out that no one is male or female at conception. I didn't realize they were asking us because they had no clue what a woman was lmao

It's time that Americans realize that these things aren't 'just politics', and that politics actually has a massive influence on their lives. We could've entered a new golden age and elected Biden or Kamala, who built us into the strongest economy in the world after COVID, passed the largest infrastructure bill in history (which Trump promised and failed to do), got the CHIPs act passed to bring semiconductor manufacturing to the US (Trump just announced huge tariffs on them for no reason), and brought inflation back down to normal levels with the IRA after the massive spending that Trump did (Biden approved $4.3 Trillion of new debt total, Trump approved $4.8 Trillion of non-covid debt, and $3.6 Trillion on covid related debt, for $8.4 Trillion in new debt total). And he did this all with a 50/50 senate (or 51/49 for the 2nd half). Instead we elected a rapist insurrectionist convicted of felony fraud who said he was gonna be a dictator on day 1, and is now trying as hard as he can to live up to that.

Of course he gets rid of Obamacare via EO instead of through congress lol classic fascist behavior

To all the Republicans who cried about the left calling him a fascist for so many years, at what point will you wake up and realize that's exactly what he is, and we were right the whole time? Will he have to dissolve Congress, or is bypassing them entirely by doing executive orders to get rid of laws enough?

Kept that money going to Israel.

I know you're trolling but the "transgender monkeys" research was actually studying the effectiveness of estrogen as a potentially protective hormone against the transmission of HIV.

Trump has entered office with a difficult task - how to fix an economy that has been running $2 trillion annual deficits with no major emergencies. The current path is not sustainable (especially due to the higher interest on the debt). Actions like this are a wake up call to those who have become reliant on deficit spending. This will be turned over by the courts, but the warning shot has been fired. We need to evaluate the value of the bloated government that engorged itself under Biden.

You're truly deranged.

"Fascism" to issue executive orders?

illegally firing IGs, usurping the spending power of congress, renaming things on a whim, illegally firing NLRB board members, firing DOJ official who worked on legit investigations into him, trying to get immunity from state crimes for starters.