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I can't wait to be told this is entirely political and a halt on $3 trillion of grants, many of which go to university research programs and (open source) nonprofits isn't "technical news" and won't prompt "valuable discussion". I'm sure a sudden double digit plummet in the entire spending of the US government won't have any affect on our lives or careers. And that's not even getting into that this is, by an ocean, t…
I can't wait to be told this is entirely political and a halt on $3 trillion of grants, many of which go to university research programs and (open source) nonprofits isn't "technical news" and won't prompt "valuable discussion". I'm sure a sudden double digit plummet in the entire spending of the US government won't have any affect on our lives or careers. And that's not even getting into that this is, by an ocean, t…
Over twenty million people are expected to have their HIV viral loads return to pretreatment levels again in a few weeks now that the PEPFAR program is suspended.
Does this mean SBA loan origination in recent hurricane and wildfire areas is suspended? Not a good time to be a federally funded research and development corporation (NASA JPL, Fermi National Accelerator, Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, NCAR, Oak Ridge, SLAC, etc)
It also appears to pause Medicaid funding. That impacts 85M people and half of all childbirths.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/2...
> Although the White House in a memo stated that Medicare and Medicaid would not be affected by the freeze, Illinois on Tuesday reported that state agencies could not access federal funding sites that included Medicaid.
> State agencies started reporting issues to Gov. JB Pritzker’s office Tuesday morning with accessing federal funding sites and disbursement systems, including Medicaid systems, his office said. Pritzker has been in communication with the state’s federal delegation, local elected officials, nonprofits and other governors about the matter.
And will Congresspeople point out that they legislated the funds to go where the laws they passed dictate?
Is it actually clear this is an authority the president has? Basically usurping Congress' control of the purse?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it actually clear this is an authority the president has? Basically usurping Congress' control of the purse?
It's clear that this is an authority that the president does not possess. The President does not have unilateral authority to impound funds. Congress has the power of the purse. It's clear, but political power only exists if it's used. If congress grants this power to the executive, they render themselves all but irrelevant. They'd be a rather expensive and unattractive claque.