Posted on 04/29/2025 8:45:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Congressional Democrats said on April 29 that the Trump administration has blocked about $430 billion in federal funding and that they are chronicling how it is stopping the flow of funds.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the top Democrats on the Senate and House appropriations committees, released a tracker on April 29 to “shine a light on President Trump’s vast, illegal funding freeze and how it is hurting people in every zip code in America.”
“Instead of investing in the American people, President Trump is ignoring our laws and ripping resources away,” said Murray and DeLauro. They said the funding that was cut or frozen by the Trump administration had been approved by Congress.
The powerful Appropriations committees in the House and the Senate, where Republicans have majority control of both chambers, draft the annual funding bills that Congress passes and sends to the president’s desk for his signature to become law.
Since taking office in January, Trump has said that he wants to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government while seeking to terminate various programs that don’t align with his administration’s priorities.
The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created via an executive order in January by the president and is tasked with those efforts. According to its website, DOGE says it has saved an estimated $160 billion, or around $993 per taxpayer.
The White House, which has not responded to the Democrats’ claims, did not immediately respond to an Epoch Times request for comment.
In a news release on Tuesday, Democrats highlighted some programs that were slashed under the Trump administration, including $1 billion for HeadStart, which provides early childhood education, health, and nutrition services.
They noted $12 million in canceled funding for the Fair Housing Initiatives Program that gives grants to nonprofits to “prevent housing discrimination.” They also cited nearly $1 billion for the Green and Resilient Retrofit program; $10 million for the Citizen and Integration Grant program; $80 million in grants and contracts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more.
The Trump administration is in court fighting to keep many of the administration’s cuts to federal agencies.
“The people voted for major government reform, and that’s what the people are going to get,” said Musk, a senior presidential adviser and special government employee, in an appearance at the White House in February. “That’s what democracy is all about.”
This past week, after Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla posted lower-than-expected profits and revenue for the first quarter of 2025, Musk told investors on a call that his work with DOGE will drop significantly in the next month or so. In any case, as a special government employee, Musk can work only 130 days for the government before departing.
Musk said he will continue to support the Trump administration and DOGE “to make sure that the waste and fraud that we stop does not come roaring back.”
In a statement released by the White House, Trump said that DOGE is designed to bring “accountability and transparency to federal spending, ensuring taxpayer dollars are spent wisely and effectively,” which he said, “has already saved taxpayers billions of dollars.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
I’m not seeing a problem here.
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You have to wonder how much of that 430 billion was grafted back to these Dems via kickbacks.
No wonder they are mad.
Like almost all of it was. Without a doubt
Congress needs to codify this into law and more. People aren’t hurting...well just those that were getting illegal kickbacks and grift. That’s what they are really worried about. They won’t even be able to fund their next campaign.
Half a trillion in savings. $1.5T more needed to arrive at a balanced budget.
DEMOCRATS haz a sad? Good!
That’s all?
Sequestration - I term used to block funds to the DoD, used many, many time.
Potatoe, Pah-tatoe. What’s in a name....
Ain’t a Democrat alive and that ain’t fleeced the taxpayers.
As tue executive in chief, he has that ability. He has extensive power over executing things, and extensive power over the executive branch, its agencies and its employees.
Guaranteed if Sen Murray is involved it is illegal, immoral, or anti- America.
She is my senator and I always vote against her.
It’s a good start.
We don’t have any resources to rip away. You can’t dig for gold in a coal mine. Spending borrowed money is not providing resources it is stealing from people who don’t have anything yet because they haven’t been born.
They noted $12 million in canceled funding for the Fair Housing Initiatives Program that gives grants to nonprofits to “prevent housing discrimination.”
Since there are numerous laws and regulations to do just that why are these grants necessary? Wouldn’t prosecuting those who engage in such illegal practices be more to the point? And just how much do these nonprofits use to actually prvent discrimination and how much goes to expenses?
Sen Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Democrats on
appropriations committees, shine a light on President Trump’s vast funding freeze ..........
These people don’t seem to realize, that the Biden administration had tried to sabotage the United States. They did not refinance the US debt when interest rates were low. They did not refinance with 10 year treasuries, like is normally done.
They refinanced the debt, when interest rates were high, with two year treasuries (on their way out of office). So 2 years into Trumps time in office, all that debt comes due. Everything could crash.
Spending has to stop.
Are our democrat and rino congresscritters billionaires ? Sure is a lot of thievery by congresscritters going on out there.
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