Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:44     Subject: Federal grant pause
Anonymous wrote:If the grant funds have already been disbursed the recipient can continue to operate-just no further disbursement of open awards or obligations of new awards. Also it pauses activities like reviews of applications, issuance of funding opportunities. I’m worried the next step after this “review” is the cancellation of grants that don’t comply with the EOs. That’s going to cause chaos.


Given that recipients in some agencies are instructed to draw down funds as close to expenditure as feasible (i.e. don't advance 3 months funding), I don't think splitting that hair gets you fair. Restricting disbursement of obligated funds is going to stop everyone in their tracks.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:37     Subject: Federal grant pause
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This happens all the time, new admins come in and review everything. I don’t think it’s something to get worked up about.


You can’t because this hasn’t happened before. We are talking trillions of dollars.


Wonderful! This is what the American people voted for.

Please cite the last time a new administration paused every federal grant. You said this happens all the time. Give one example.


Not the PP but this is, unfortunately, what American voters seem to want. Maybe if it hits hard enough some of them will realize it wasn’t really what they wanted, but time will tell.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:33     Subject: Federal grant pause
Does this hit thinks like Pell Grants, federal student loans, HUD and VA mortgages, Section 8, Title 1 in schools, head start, FARMS, etc. ? Because if so- yowza. A lot of pain very fast.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:30     Subject: Federal grant pause
If the grant funds have already been disbursed the recipient can continue to operate-just no further disbursement of open awards or obligations of new awards. Also it pauses activities like reviews of applications, issuance of funding opportunities. I’m worried the next step after this “review” is the cancellation of grants that don’t comply with the EOs. That’s going to cause chaos.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:29     Subject: Federal grant pause
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This happens all the time, new admins come in and review everything. I don’t think it’s something to get worked up about.


You can’t because this hasn’t happened before. We are talking trillions of dollars.


Wonderful! This is what the American people voted for.

Please cite the last time a new administration paused every federal grant. You said this happens all the time. Give one example.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:28     Subject: Federal grant pause
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This happens all the time, new admins come in and review everything. I don’t think it’s something to get worked up about.


Please cite the last time a new administration paused every federal grant. You can’t because this hasn’t happened before. We are talking trillions of dollars.


Wonderful! This is what the American people voted for.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:26     Subject: Federal grant pause
All we can hope is that this tanks the economy and they then replace these jokers with more competent people. Slim chance though. This is stunningly stupid.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:26     Subject: Federal grant pause
Market crash incoming
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:24     Subject: Federal grant pause
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The memo gets basic facts about government spending wrong. These people are morons. Just some of the most objectively stupid people you could ever find.


The keep talking about spending related to the "Green New Deal" which was a proposed piece of legislation that floated around but never passed. It's completely and totally insane.


People who believe the Fox News conspiracy theories writing the memos, exposing themselves to everyone as the deeply stupid people they are.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:20     Subject: Federal grant pause
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If they don't reverse this quickly, the whole economy is going to collapse. Infrastructure projects, hospitals, lunch programs at school, farmijg subsidies, WIC, student loan disbursements. The damage of this can't be understated.


Agree, there is way more at stake here then people realize.



People only learn through suffering sadly - unfair and cruel as it is.


I fear that is what is going to be necessary here. I don’t want people to suffer, but I also think they need to be more aware of what they are voting for. Already my ILs, who voted for Trump, are saying, “oh but I didn’t know he was going to do THAT” about things that he absolutely said he was going to do.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:20     Subject: Federal grant pause
There is a reason that both democrats and republicans in congress usually try very hard to avoid government shut downs. They cause pain and people get mad very quickly. This is a self inflicted shut down, but the impacts will be much larger because it is not limited to discretionary budgets.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:20     Subject: Federal grant pause
Anonymous wrote:If they don't reverse this quickly, the whole economy is going to collapse. Infrastructure projects, hospitals, lunch programs at school, farmijg subsidies, WIC, student loan disbursements. The damage of this can't be understated.


This. I just read it this morning and I’m lying in bed with my stomach churning before I go to work with a university financial aid office.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:19     Subject: Federal grant pause
Anonymous wrote:This happens all the time, new admins come in and review everything. I don’t think it’s something to get worked up about.


Please cite the last time a new administration paused every federal grant. You can’t because this hasn’t happened before. We are talking trillions of dollars.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:18     Subject: Federal grant pause
Anonymous wrote:If they don't reverse this quickly, the whole economy is going to collapse. Infrastructure projects, hospitals, lunch programs at school, farmijg subsidies, WIC, student loan disbursements. The damage of this can't be understated.


100% this. This is not a normal transition. This is insanity.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 07:17     Subject: Federal grant pause
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This happens all the time, new admins come in and review everything. I don’t think it’s something to get worked up about.

No it doesn’t. Give an example of another time a new administration turned off funding to this extent.


+1 As a GS10 (and now a GS11) I have never felt the affects of an administration change until this year.