No funds for you!
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@Mik said in No funds for you!:
But it's clearly worth looking at if it comprises 30% of what is being spent.
This isn't about wasteful spending. This is about cutting the legs out from under your opposition. They're totally up front about what they're doing.
From the administration:
“This is not a blanket pause on federal assistance and grant programs from the Trump administration,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in her first White House briefing.
Leavitt said the pause was directed more at Democratic priorities rather than making across-the-board cuts, and she said all agencies could make a case to the administration to keep their funding.
“If they feel that programs are necessary and in line with the president’s agenda, then the Office of Management and Budget will review those policies,” said Leavitt.
Well, as so many in the GOP say about stuff like this, at least it's getting people talking about the issue.
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Governor Pritzker of IL just made some pretty scathing comments. I'll post the video and/or text of the press conference when it becomes available.
He made reference to this:
A wide range of organizations and agencies that depend on federal health department funds say they have been locked out of the online system responsible for tracking and depositing their money, in the wake of the White House's move to freeze funding across the Trump administration.
These include state Medicaid programs which have been unable to log into the Payment Management Services web portal, or PMS, run by the Department of Health and Human Services, which handles billions of dollars of payments every year.
The website currently warns that due "to Executive Orders regarding potentially unallowable grant payments, PMS is taking additional measures to process payments. Reviews of applicable programs and payments will result in delays and/or rejections of payments."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicaid-head-start-health-centers-trump-funding-freeze/
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@Steve-Miller said in No funds for you!:
Trying to figure out which of my friends will be affected by this.
Probably many.
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Freeze is blocked by federal judge.
eta: Details.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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@wtg said in No funds for you!:
Freeze is blocked by federal judge.
This is good of course (temporary though it is), but all the stupid sh*t the repubs are doing is such a waste of time and money. And yes it's just aiming to sow chaos, but the problem is, it's working.
I feel very, very afraid for the future of this country (near term and longer).
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@Mik Sometimes people take a minute and analyze outcomes before pulling the plug.
This bunch isn’t bright enough to think this through, or maybe the pain is the point.
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@Steve-Miller Pritzker, our lieutenant governor, and our state attorney general walked through some of those impacts. Worth watching. Much better than the White House press secretary, who is slick and cute, but a bit short on facts. When asked about undocumented people with no criminal records being swept up in the raids, she enthusiastically stated thar all undocumented immigrants are criminals because they broke our laws. She missed the part in civics class that made a distinction between criminal and civil offenses.
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Folded like a cheap suit.
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@Steve-Miller said in No funds for you!:
Sometimes people take a minute and analyze outcomes before pulling the plug.
I know, what a concept!
This bunch isn’t bright enough to think this through, or maybe the pain is the point.
Ding ding ding.
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Silly us. The confusion was the court's fault.
"This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze," she wrote on X. "It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction. The President's EO's on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented."
Throughout Tuesday, the White House attempted to clarify the exceptions — including Medicaid — but by then, there was widespread confusion and reports of people and organizations unable to access systems to receive their federal aid.
Nonprofit groups that worked on health care and homelessness, for example, told NBC News that they were unable to get into websites to withdraw funds, and online portals to access Medicaid payments were temporarily down.
They're regrouping. I'm sure there's a Plan B.
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This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze," she wrote on X. "It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction.
Maybe Mary Anna can help. I understand she teaches people how to write.
