‘A Bridge Too Far?’?
Is the point where the Congress, Democrats and Republicans, put their foot down an d assert THEIR power to LEGALLY decide What and HOW The Unted States of America spend’s its money?
And how it writes the LAWS to be followed?
Cause if they don’t?
We REALLY DO have KING….
Not President…
The memo, which goes into effect Tuesday, states its orders should not be “construed” to affect Social Security or Medicare recipients, and also says the federal financial assistance put on hold “does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.”….
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A coalition of state attorneys general plans to file suit on Tuesday afternoon to block an order from the White House budget office that would freeze all federal grant programs by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The move was announced by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, at a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday morning. Among the states joining the suit are New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Delaware.
“My office will be taking imminent legal action against this administration’s unconstitutional pause on federal funding,” the New York attorney general, Letitia James, wrote on social mediaon Tuesday. “We won’t sit idly by while this administration harms our families.”
The freeze order, a two-page memo from Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, directs federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance,” specifically citing “D.E.I., woke gender ideology and the Green New Deal.” The meaning of the directive was unclear and has plunged state agencies, city governments and nonprofit organizations into confusion.
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Since 1974, a federal law passed to rein in what Congress saw as abuses of power by Richard M. Nixon has required the executive branch to spend money allocated by Congress and signed by the president. Democrats contend that money approved by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. through the infrastructure law, routine congressional appropriations and other measures cannot be summarily blocked without an act of Congress. To do so, they say would be an unconstitutional usurpation of the legislative branch’s power of the purse
The budget office’s memo said that “assistance received directly by individuals,” as well as Medicare and Social Security benefits, would not be impacted by the pause. But it remains unclear whether that carve-out would include Medicaid, a federally-funded program where the money flows first to states and then care is provided to low-income residents….
“Senate Democrats vowed to fight a White House freeze on federal financial assistance, calling for a delay in the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominee for White House budget chief, threatening potential court actions and warning Republicans about potential impacts on their own states,” Politicoreports.
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“States and local governments scrambled Tuesday to assess the impact of a broad and far-reaching order by the White House to pause hundreds of billions in federal grants, loans and other financial assistance-programs, pending a review by the Trump administration,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The memo, issued to agencies by the White House Office of Management and Budget late Monday, sowed widespread confusion, prompting government officials, lawmakers, nonprofits and others to parse through the two-page document—down to the footnotes—to try to understand which programs would be halted.”
Note…
There REALLY should be NO reason why Trump admin people can’t check funding without stopping it….
This IS just another Project 2025/Trump Flex….
image…President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Jan. 21. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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