Posted on 01/28/2025 6:53:55 PM PST by NoLibZone
In implementing President Trump’s Executive Orders, OMB issued guidance requesting that agencies temporarily pause, to the extent permitted by law, grant, loan or federal financial assistance programs that are implicated by the President’s Executive Orders.
Any program not implicated by the President’s Executive Orders is not subject to the pause.
The Executive Orders listed in the guidance are:
Protecting the American People Against Invasion Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements Unleashing American Energy Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
Any program that provides direct benefits to individuals is not subject to the pause.
The guidance establishes a process for agencies to work with OMB to determine quickly whether any program is inconsistent with the President’s Executive Orders. A pause could be as short as day. In fact, OMB has worked with agencies and has already approved many programs to continue even before the pause has gone into effect. Any payment required by law to be paid will be paid without interruption or delay.
Q: Is this a freeze on all Federal financial assistance?
A: No, the pause does not apply across-the-board. It is expressly limited to programs, projects, and activities implicated by the President’s Executive Orders, such as ending DEI, the green new deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations that undermine the national interest.
Q: Is this a freeze on benefits to Americans like SNAP or student loans?
A: No, any program that provides direct benefits to Americans is explicitly excluded from the pause and exempted from this review process. In addition to Social Security and Medicare, already explicitly excluded in the guidance, mandatory programs like Medicaid and SNAP will continue without pause.Funds for small businesses, farmers, Pell grants, Head Start, rental assistance, and other similar programs will not be paused. If agencies are concerned that these programs may implicate the President’s Executive Orders, they should consult OMB to begin to unwind these objectionable policies without a pause in the payments.
Q: Is the pause of federal financial assistance an impoundment?
A: No, it is not an impoundment under the Impoundment Control Act. It is a temporary pause to give agencies time to ensure that financial assistance conforms to the policies set out in the President’s Executive Orders, to the extent permitted by law.
Temporary pauses are a necessary part of program implementation that have been ordered by past presidents to ensure that programs are being executed and funds spent in accordance with a new President’s policies and do not constitute impoundments.
Q: Why was this pause necessary?
A: To act as faithful stewards of taxpayer money, new administrations must review federal programs to ensure that they are being executed in accordance with the law and the new President’s policies.
To what extent this freeze is successful, we do not not now know.
But one thing we do know.... Liberal heads are a’splodin.
“Any payment required by law to be paid will be paid without interruption or delay.”
Who is sending funds NOT required by law?
“The guidance establishes a process for agencies to work with OMB to determine quickly whether any program is inconsistent with the President’s Executive Orders.
A pause could be as short as day.
In fact, OMB has worked with agencies and has already approved many programs to continue even before the pause has gone into effect.”
That would refer to planned budgets that have not yet been approved.
IMHO that judge that issued an order against this today is in the wrong. If I was Trump, I would just ignore her.
You mean all those reporters and Congressmen I heard on the news were wrong? Imagine that!
Note this part:
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Q: Is this a freeze on all Federal financial assistance?
A: No, the pause does not apply across-the-board. It is expressly limited to programs, projects, and activities implicated by the President’s Executive Orders, such as ending DEI, the green new deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations that undermine the national interest.
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They’re going after the NGOs.
That is a perfect target.
The NGOs are where ANTIFA and its affiliates get much of their slush funding. It is also where various organizations that support fraudulent voter registrations and illegal immigration get considerable funding. It is all dispensed in very indirect fashions.
Past time to destroy these organizations. They should get no Federal funds.
review
A $50 MILLION “AID” giveaway to GAZA was for “CONDOMS”.
$50 MILLION. GOT halted—even tho personal tried an end run around Trump-—AND GOT CAUGHT
Turns out HAMAS used CONDOMS to create makeshift balloons to send explosives into ISRAEL.
There is lots of discretionary spending by govt bureaucracy. They get to decide what grants to provide and who to give them to. Grants to NGO’s are a common example.
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