“Hours after the Trump administration introduced a sweeping freeze on federal spending, the U.S. authorities on Tuesday discovered itself mired in confusion and chaos, because it appeared to stave off potential interruptions to applications that promote meals security, fight crime, present housing assist, produce medical analysis and reply to pure disasters,” the Washington Put up studies.
“Few in Washington appeared to know the scope and intention of a White Home memo that originally directed businesses to ‘quickly pause’ the disbursement of key funds, leaving 1000’s of presidency providers — totaling billions of {dollars} and devoted primarily to People’ well being, security and well-being — liable to shutting down, at the very least quickly.”
“The uncertainty compelled the White Home to make clear its method by noon: In a brand new directive, the Workplace of Administration and Finances stated it sought solely to carry spending in step with the president’s latest executives orders, together with those who clamp down on international assist and funding for range, fairness and inclusion, or DEI, which Trump has referred to as ‘radical and wasteful.’”
