Posted on 01/31/2025 2:19:56 PM PST by JV3MRC
Defending the destructive spending plaguing the federal government appears to be what The New York Times does best, which explains its nervous breakdown over President Donald Trump taking scissors to Washington D.C.’s credit cards.
The Upshot staff over at The Times were up in arms over the Office of Budget and Management’s January 28 memo ordering a temporary freeze on funding for federal programs across the government. The Times railed that the order “caused widespread confusion among agency officials and organizations that rely on federal support, including states, schools, hospitals and other nonprofits.”
They listed 2,600 programs that were under review, but chose to highlight programs like Medicare and Head Start, which the Trump administration already insisted wouldn’t be affected.
As Fox 5 summarized in an explainer: “Any payment required by law to be paid will be paid without interruption or delay.” In turn, “any program that provides direct benefits to Americans is explicitly excluded from the pause and exempted from this review process.”
What The Times buried in its data, however, was much of the billions in federal tax dollars are wasted on batty initiatives such as environmental justice and endangered species conservation.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of some of the nutty leftist federal spending programs that were set to be under review that The Times chose to bury in its report.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
2,600 programs
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