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On Tuesday, the US federal authorities will freeze the payment of hundreds of billions of dollars of domestic federal grants and loans in the latest aggressive changes by President Donald Trump.
The break in the financial support of the federal government, which is to come into force in Washington at 5 p.m., could endanger a wide range of funds, from scientific and medical research to small business loans, food aid and early childhood education.
The order of the White House would affect municipalities across the country that are strongly dependent on the support of the government and immediately triggered a counter reaction from Democrats.
Opposition legislators have replaced it as an illegal takeover Trump card This defies the constitutional role of the legislator in the approval of the expenditure and warned that this might be damaged by the US economy.
“The freezing of federal financing that has already been assigned by the congress is unconstitutional. Above all, it is inhumane, ”said Dick Durbin, the democratic senator from Illinois.
Two high -ranking Democrats, Patty Murray and Rosa Delauro, wrote to Matthew Vaeth, deputy director of the budget administrative office and said: “The scope of what they order is breathtaking, unprecedented and will have devastating consequences across the country. “”
Trump’s move was announced in one memo by Vaeth on Monday, which marked the latest in a series of executives by the President to force the public service and government agencies to adapt to his policy.
It comes after Trump has ordered a new financing for Clean Energy projects. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also started to take a break for practically all foreign help until a review of complaining of the Trump administration’s plans.
Vaeth’s memo pointed to hot button questions for conservatives and said: “The use of federal resources to promote marxist equity, transgenderism and guidelines for the social engineering of Green New Deal is a waste of tax money that does not improve everyday life from those that we serve. ”
The Trump administration asked the agencies to submit information about their grants and loans to the White House by February 10, which means that many programs will be at least in the floating. The White House said that the United States issued 3 TN for the financial support of the federal government in the 2024 year, but it is unclear how much of it is ultimately shortened.
While the order does not cover state pension programs or health care for seniors, he represents Trump’s most courageous attempt to reduce the size of the domestic federal expenses, and only focus on priorities that are used by ideological conservatives.
On Tuesday, Karoline Leavitt, the press spokesman for the White House, announced reporters that the order was not a “general break”, and explained that it would not affect the support of individuals, including social benefits.
A radical revision of the Federal Government has long since been made by Russell Vougt, Trump’s election as the household director of the White House and the authors of the 2025 project, a blueprint for the republican administration, which was compiled by the Heritage Foundation in recent years, a conservative thinking tank.
Trump distanced himself from project in 2025 during the election campaign against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris last year, since many of his recipes were too controversial, but some of his guidelines appear in his first executives.
Trump has commissioned Elon Musk, the technological billionaire, separately to exterminate the government expenditure as part of the newly created “Department of Government Efficiency”, to waste, fraud and abuse in the federal operations, but the step this week goes beyond these efforts.
Sawyer Hackett, a democratic strategist, said his party had to define a marker after the flash of the executive contracts of the Trump government last week and increase the freezing freezing over the financing freeze.
“The Democrats of the Senate have to say that there will be no democratic voices that have to take or confirm the Trump candidates until the ruthless financing of the financial center is reversed,” he said. “It is not a fait success. We have levers. Use it. “
Jeff Merkley, the leading Democrat at the Senate ‘Household Committee, swore to delay a hearing to confirm that “until we answer these questions and solve this constitutional crisis”.
