Washington – The White House Office of Management and Budget went back to a memo on Wednesday, who ordered a freeze on federal assistance, for less than two days of instructions Due to chaos and confusion Which programs across the country will be affected.
The latest two-line memorandum from the Acting Director of Management and Budget Matthew Vath stated that earlier instructions have been canceled. This directs those who question President Trump's executive orders, so that they can contact general counsels in their agencies.
The White House sent shockwaves on issuing guidance late on Monday night, which requested agencies to stop the “grant, loan or federal financial assistance programs temporarily” to the extent “to the extent” to the extent “to be allowed by the law. Was. Memo from Vaeth said that in 2024, $ 3 trillion was spent on federal aid programs.
This instructed the agencies to give detailed information to the budget office of the White House on 10 February on programs, projects or activities under funding freeze.
The entire scope of the instruction was not clear, and it left non -profit institutions, small businesses, universities and other institutions to determine if they would be affected, and Congress offices had to face questions from components and organizations. , There was a fear that they would lose federal dollars.
While the memorandum of the White House states that Medicare or Social Security Benefits will not be affected, State Medicade Agencies, Union-Nedded Head-Nominated Headed Elementary Education Programs and Community Health Centers said they were that they were Cut from reaching a web portal The Health and Human Services Department is run.
White House press secretary Karolin Levitt later clarified that there is a “outage” that affected the portal, and said no payment was affected.
In addition to confusion, Memo gave birth to several cases including a non -profit alliance and Democratic State Attorney General. A federal judge in Washington, DC, rapidly convened a hearing at a request from non -profit groups, to temporarily block the freeze enforcement, and a brief stagnation to completely consider the case completely Agreed on Tuesday to release.
Meanwhile, Democrats reduced the move of Shri Trump's administration and accused him of depriving billions of states, cities, towns, schools and hospitals in federal support.
“This decision is lawless, dangerous, destructive, cruel. It is illegal, it is unconstitutional,” a Senate minority leader Chak Shumar said during a news conference on Tuesday.
A Democrat Sen Patty Murray from Washington requested the Senate Republican to leave Ras Wout's nomination for the management and budget office director.