Posted on 02/13/2025 3:05:10 AM PST by 11th_VA
Federal agencies across Washington are finding ways to keep funding frozen even after judges last month temporarily blocked the White House’s effort to pause trillions of dollars in federal assistance.
FEMA has clawed back $80 million intended to help New York City house migrants. The EPA has paused more than 30 grant programs, including some providing money for schools to buy electric buses. And USAID contractors say hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts have not been paid.
Trump officials say the suspensions are lawful and comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders, arguing he has broad powers over federal spending as president. But multiple lawsuits now accuse the administration of violating Congress’ powers over government spending, as well as a federal judge’s orders to turn funding back on after the White House freeze late last month...
That’s left US contractors in a state of upheaval, and in many cases led to furloughs and layoffs of workers at organizations that rely on government funding.
“People are just flipping out, and most of them are being careful about what they say,” said Jason Walsh, executive director of climate and labor group the BlueGreen Alliance.
Walsh told CNN that reaction from EPA grantees – whose funding was paused, restarted and then paused again last Friday – has been a mix of “panic, confusion and anger.” …
“Contracts are going to get broken if this doesn’t stop, and workers are going to get laid off,” Walsh said. “I didn’t anticipate how fully brazen they’d be in ignoring the courts.”
The White House argues that it’s rooting out illegal spending inside the federal bureaucracy, saying that the DOGE-directed cuts being made are targeting waste, fraud and abuse...
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
(‘People are just flipping out’:)
DEMOCRATS ARE FREAKING OUT!
“Contracts are going to get broken if this doesn’t stop, and workers are going to get laid off
OMG, noooooooo! [s/]
Learn to code.
The walls are closing in.
This could be the beginning of the end.
The new universal catchphrase has been out from Deep State, and media will repeat it endlessly.
It’s been too long since the Executive didn’t want a piece of pork.
I sure hope this story isn't all lies because it was glorious to read!
Trump, with Musk/DOGE is doing a Dresden-level firebombing on wasteful libtard government programs and there's little anyone can do to stop him.
Please let every word of it be true!
“People” are just flipping out? No. GRIFTERS are just flipping out.
The grift is over. The gravy train isn’t going to run any more. No, district court judges do not get to make federal policy no matter how much they would like to think they have that power. They do not.
Yep.
AfA ‘flipping out’, let them flip.
Again, the President can do whatever he wants because thanks to Biden’s example of the presidents broad pardoning power is he can always pardon anyone he wants, including himself, so ignoring out of control judges only make sense.
“ That’s left US contractors in a state of upheaval, and in many cases led to furloughs and layoffs of workers at organizations that rely on government funding.”
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Parasites crying after no longer being able to feed off of the American people.
“The EPA has paused more than 30 grant programs, including some providing money for schools to buy electric buses.”
Those schools have no idea (because they’re run by Leftists) of just HOW LUCKY they are now that their E-Bus funding has dried up.
Another yellow journalism story, no one but the grifters and criminals are freaking out. You have spent all your credibility on lies, the American public literally does not believe anything you spew anymore.
Oh, boo-hoo, you thieves. Not getting value for what you paid off your Congresspeople for? And the contracts won’t be paid, not because of Trump’s money freezes, but because there are no CORs in USAID anymore to approve their fraudulent and padded monthly invoices.
“On Monday, FEMA announced it was suspending $59 million in payments to New York City, which has received federal funds to in part house migrants after grappling with a surge in recent years. In all, the Trump administration revoked more than $80 million in funds from the city’s bank accounts Tuesday evening, a move Comptroller Brad Lander described as a “highway robbery””
I wonder if they considered it “highway robbery” when Biden did it to Russia?
What is this, the 1980? :)
AI already codes better than any human and it will only get better and faster...much faster than an out of shape, dumpy, middle aged man behind a 15 year old PC :)
This approach forces contractors, agencies, advocacy groups into a tough position: continue legal fights that keep funding in limbo or back off and hope for a controlled resumption of funds.
It also creates a political dynamic where Trump’s team can argue that opposition forces are the ones preventing necessary funding from flowing by resisting the administration’s oversight.
If this is intentional, it’s a high-stakes game of financial brinkmanship, using funding freezes as leverage to weaken resistance and push forward broader spending reforms.
And it's damned brilliant.
“One source said that federal officials are receiving letters daily from states and localities worried about costs – suggesting they may send workers home from jobs if that will help start or pay for the projects.”
Perhaps they should consider doing what Trump has done and instead “sending workers from home TO their jobs”.
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