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https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/923/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/923/ > Q: Is this a freeze on all Federal financial assistan
by legitster 2y ago
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/923/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/923/
> 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.
This administration is playing Calvinball. What funding does or does not qualify is being completely made up on the spot.
But before you dismiss it as bluster and sabre rattling, the administration is already dealing out retribution for those who "don't comply": https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/27/nx-s1-5276382/trump-usaid-leave-executive-order https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/27/nx-s1...
As an extra layer on dumbness, because the administration is stupid like a fox, they get to walk back anything they want to. They could decide next week that FEMA was never actually cancelled, and they will walk up to a podium and accuse everyone of overreacting and the news for lying. Despite the fact that they controlled the narrative the entire time.