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The White House fund bureau has ordered a intermission connected each national grants and loans, according to an interior memorandum sent Monday, perchance impacting trillions successful authorities spending and halting nationalist programs that impact millions of Americans.
Federal agencies "must temporarily intermission each activities related to work oregon disbursement of each Federal fiscal assistance," White House Office of Management and Budget acting manager Matthew Vaeth said successful the memorandum, a transcript of which was obtained by CNN. The intermission besides blocks the issuance of caller grants.
The memo specifies that the intermission volition not impact Social Security oregon Medicare benefits, nor does it see "assistance provided straight to individuals."
The frost connected national assistance is slated to instrumentality effect astatine 5 p.m. Tuesday. It marks the latest determination by the Trump medication to exert power implicit national funding, adjacent that which has already been allocated by Congress.
"This impermanent intermission volition supply the Administration clip to reappraisal bureau programs and find the champion uses of the backing for those programs accordant with the instrumentality and the President's priorities," Vaeth wrote.
The memo suggests that the intermission is successful enactment with President Donald Trump's enforcement orders past week.
The intermission besides applies to "other applicable bureau activities that whitethorn beryllium implicated by the enforcement orders, including, but not constricted to, fiscal assistance for overseas aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke sex ideology, and the greenish caller deal," according to the memo.
"Career and governmental appointees successful the Executive Branch person a work to align Federal spending and enactment with the volition of the American radical arsenic expressed done Presidential priorities," Vaeth wrote.
"Financial assistance should beryllium dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing payer dollars to beforehand a stronger and safer America, eliminating the fiscal load of ostentation for citizens, unleashing American vigor and manufacturing, ending 'wokeness' and the weaponization of government, promoting ratio successful government, and Making America Healthy Again," helium continued. "The usage of Federal resources to beforehand Marxist equity, transgenderism, and greenish caller woody societal engineering policies is simply a discarded of payer dollars that does not amended the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
According to the memo, the fund bureau "may assistance exceptions allowing Federal agencies to contented caller awards oregon instrumentality different actions connected a case-by-case basis."
"To the grade required by law," agencies whitethorn besides instrumentality "certain administrative actions" similar closing retired grants, it states.
The memo calls connected agencies to taxable to OMB "detailed accusation connected immoderate programs, projects oregon activities taxable to this pause" by February 10.
Sen. Patty Murray of Washington authorities and Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut - the apical Democratic appropriators successful Congress - wrote a missive to the White House connected Monday nighttime outlining their "extreme alarm" with the move.
"The scope of what you are ordering is breathtaking, unprecedented, and volition person devastating consequences crossed the country," the lawmakers wrote. "We constitute contiguous to impulse you successful the strongest imaginable presumption to uphold the instrumentality and the Constitution and guarantee each national resources are delivered successful accordance with the law."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer besides rapidly criticized the pause.
"Congress approved these investments and they are not optional; they are the law," the New York Democrat said successful a connection Monday night. "These grants assistance radical successful reddish states and bluish states, enactment families, assistance parents rise kids, and pb to stronger communities."
Schumer added that the enactment jeapordizes "billions upon billions of assemblage grants and fiscal enactment that assistance millions of radical crossed the country."
"It volition mean missed payrolls and rent payments and everything successful between: chaos for everything from universities to non-profit charities," helium said.
This communicative has been updated with further details.
CNN's Manu Raju contributed to this report.
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