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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.

No it’s not. He didn’t win a popular majority; 1.7 million more people voted against him than for him. Only 23% of the population actually cast a ballot for him. His party also has historically narrow majorities in the House and Senate despite structural advantages that should tilt both chambers in Republicans’ favor.

More importantly, he disavowed Project 2025 on the campaign trail because polls showed it was deeply unpopular. But now, he is enacting every policy it laid out and even letting Project 2025 authors draft the implementation memos. He lied. Again. And now the whole country gets to suffer for it.

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.

I think what you are missing here is that we've been encouraged not to have cash on hand for more than about a month, and we've been told to stop activities. We can just continue to work with cash on hand -- all of our beneficiaries will lose services starting now. The irony is that our client base is almost exclusively low-income white folks in a part of the country that is +20 Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:He doesn't have the legal authority to do this.

which is why Rs in Congress or the courts have to grow a spine.

Not going to happen.

If they can lie about J6, this is nothing
That's why J6 had to be covered up. It was the litmus test to see how far people would go along with things.

A ton of money is going to fly out of the coffers before 5pm today

The feeling of dread is increasing.

When I saw this reported this morning I felt like I was in a bad dream or bizarro world.

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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.

Please remind them publcily and often that this is exactly what he said he would do. If they voted for him, this is on them.

Anonymous wrote:He doesn't have the legal authority to do this.

which is why Rs in Congress or the courts have to grow a spine.

He doesn't have the legal authority to do this.

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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.

No it won't
They are just a bunch of sheep now.
As they go down, they'll keep muttering about "illegals st the border."

Anything can be done now. There will be no political blowback. Everyone has come to kiss the ring.

I keep seeing people saying "why aren't the Democrats doing anything". Because they don't hold any branch of government now, morons. I don't know why this nation treats Republicans like kids playing with matches and the Democrats responsible if the thing burns down.

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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.

+1 Nothing is fully funded right now.

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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.

No it won't
They are just a bunch of sheep now.
As they go down, they'll keep muttering about "illegals st the border."

Anything can be done now. There will be no political blowback. Everyone has come to kiss the ring.

Anonymous wrote: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.

This is going to be worse than a shutdown, to be clear. We kept those disbursements going as essential during shut downs.

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. Stop bald face lies.

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.

Agree. And uses terms that are political culture attacks not actual descriptions of programs. And tries to freeze funds that are disbursed under law, not EO. This is based on project 2025- I thought project 2025 would have at least had the brains to write a coherent memo that accurately described their nefarious plans. I would ignore this memo.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Looks that way. Everything except payments to individuals like SS and Medicare.