White House rescinds memo on freezing federal grants and loans
The White House said it had canceled a memorandum to authorize the federal to freeze hundreds of millions of dollars of gifts and loans, which caused a general panic of millions of people who relying on government aid.
This is a few hours after the judge temporarily stopped the order on Tuesday, just a few hours after President Donald Trump signed, the memo was announced by the Management and Budget Office (OMB).
After a group of representatives of the receiver of the donor filed a lawsuit, the judge suspended the order until next Monday.
New letter issued on Wednesday “OMB memo M-25-13 is revoked.”
It is unclear what it has prompted to make a significant head -up.
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that the government is still pursuing frozen.
She said: “This is not the cancellation of federal funds. This is just the cancellation of the OMB memo.” “Why? Any chaos caused by the court’s ban. President’s federal fund EO is still effective and effective, and will be strictly implemented.”
The Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) asked the White House to clarify Trump’s decision to revoke the memorandum and the judge’s ban, and how to continue the plan.
Earlier this week, the agency of the White House Budget Office instructed the agency to “temporarily suspend all activities related to all federal financial assistance related obligations or expenditures.”
The office stated that the move aims to evaluate the new government’s time to evaluate a step of gifts and loans and its agenda.
But the order caused a general confusion of which institutions and plans will be affected. A online portal website used to obtain federal funds briefly offline and warn the suspension of service.
In response to the latest moves, the Democratic Party suddenly shifted a press conference scheduled to be held on Tuesday. The meeting was a move that Trump was relocated to ending the identity of maternity citizenship to condemn the actions to freeze all federal funds.
Chuck Schume, a minority leader of the Democratic Party, told reporters after revoking the order: “What they basically do is to hurt their families and help their billionaire friends.”
He added that Republicans will continue to try to prevent future funds, which will be stopped because of the public’s “strong protests” this time.
He added: “Except for strong protests throughout the United States, I think this will not happen. Senate is cooperating with voters to show this strong protest. We will continue to fight.”
Shu Mo also said that Trump should cancel the nominee leader OMB next.
The order is one of the few orders issued since Trump’s last time, aiming to reduce the government’s scale and reduce federal expenditure. Other orders are targeted at transgender rights and automatic citizenship awarded anyone in the United States.
Also on Tuesday, the Trump administration provided federal workers with a choice of resignation and continued to get a salary of eight months to further reduce the scale of federal labor.
On Tuesday, Leavitt said that the pause of funds will enable the government to reduce the expenditure of “wake -up” gender issues and diversity plans.
Several states reported that the problem of obtaining funds by Medicaid for low -income people’s government health insurance plans. The White House later stated that the plan would not be affected.
It also said that social security benefits will not be affected, nor will they “provide plans to provide direct interests for individuals”, including supplementary nutritional assistance plans, called snapshots or food vouchers.
Although the order has been blocked, the White House believes that the original memorandum has achieved its purpose by promoting federal agencies to observe the president’s administrative order.
Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Non -profit Organization, said at an emergency press conference on Tuesday that frozen funds that are frozen will be stagnant for “many important plans that affect people’s lives.”
Ms. Yentel said that this will seriously affect the food and housing plans of military veterans, asylum for home violence survivors and parenting assistance.
JR Bernid Debusmann JR contributed a report.
