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Trump's funding freeze creates widespread confusion
A White House memo set off a flurry of panic across nonprofit groups, who said they were unable to access federal government systems used to withdraw funds.
Trump's funding freeze creates widespread confusion
A White House memo set off a flurry of panic across nonprofit groups, who said they were unable to access federal government systems used to withdraw funds.
The memo set off a flurry of confusion and panic Tuesday among nonprofit organizations, which said they were unable to access federal government systems used to withdraw previously awarded federal funds.
“While we understand that this is an evolving story, this disruption, at best, will slow down Head Start agencies’ ability to pay hundreds of thousands of staff, contractors, and small businesses who support Head Start operations in every corner of the country,” Yasmina Vinci, executive director of the National Head Start Association, said. “At worst, this means that hundreds of thousands of families will not be able to depend on the critical services and likely will not be able to work."
A message at the top of one website used by health care and early childhood education providers to access their federal funds warned of possible payment delays.
“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,” the message said.
Local housing organizations were also unsure if they would have the funding available to help pay rents due Feb. 1 for thousands of low-income households in subsidized housing across the country, said Ann Oliva, CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. She said her organization has heard from several members that the system used to draw down funds to reimburse their housing expenses was unavailable on Tuesday.
“What we are hearing this morning is, honestly, a pretty good amount of panic by grantees,” Oliva said. “These programs exist in red states and blue states alike, and there are vulnerable people that are going to be impacted in many, many communities and in every state across the country.”
If those funds aren’t made available in the next several days, organizations will be unable to pay rents to landlords and some tenants could face eviction.
If you wanted to know how an autocracy would start in America, it begins by releasing violent thugs from prison who beat up police defending Congress, illegally firing every Inspector General, and seizing billions appropriated by Congress for people with no authority to do so.
When the president, on every issue, says that he will decide what he is allowed to do under the Constitution and nobody else, every appointee and member of his party obeys because they are either corrupt or afraid of him, and SCOTUS has given him immunity, you have an autocracy.
Of course, today's Republicans/conservatives seem fine with this because they agree with the policies being put in place. Nothing matters more than winning, including the Constitution.
I am closely monitoring the repercussions in PA as a result of the federal funding pause. My office just received calls from over a dozen PA organizations, including one that serves both red and blue low-income families, and their access to funds through the Federal Payment Management System have been cut off. We’re also aware of reports of PA’s Medicaid portal being down. These services, including Medicaid, are critical to our most vulnerable and I am calling on @POTUS to immediately restore access.
Surprise, surprise. I mean, he told everyone exactly what he wanted to be during the campaign but MAGAs laughed it off. I'm sure you all will still say it is all fear mongering. So many of his EOs are unconstitutional and/or illegal but not a single GOP has the balls to stand up for the constitution.
Many years from now the SCOTUS immunity decision will be remembered as the end of the American constitutional republic.
Eyes closed; heads buried. Heil Trump!
Many years from now the SCOTUS immunity decision will be remembered as the end of the American constitutional republic.
Eyes closed; heads buried. Heil Trump!
This is what they wanted. The Constitution doesn't matter. It's all about the Cult of Trump putting the policies that Republicans want in place. The ends justifies the means.
Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and
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Trump administration offers roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign
An email went out to the federal workforce Tuesday evening, with a subject line that had ties to Elon Musk.
Hegseth readies actions against Trump foe Mark Milley
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has decided to remove retired Gen. Mark A. Milley’s security detail, revoke his security clearance, and order an inspector general inquiry into his behavior as the Pentagon’s top officer, a senior defense official said Tuesday, taking extraordinary action against a frequent target of President Donald Trump.
Hegseth’s plan, first reported by Fox News, is part of the new defense secretary’s effort to reestablish “warfighter culture” in the Pentagon, the senior defense official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid backlash. The official portrayed Milley as a political operator while in the chairman role and said there is desire to “take a star” from him, meaning administration officials want to see Milley demoted in retirement.
I suspect their plans to recall him to active duty to court-martial him were blocked by Biden's pardon. Assuming they could have gotten a court panel (the military equivalent of a jury) of at least five 4-star generals to convict him and dismiss from the service, he would have lost his retirement pay. In their fever dreams, they might even imagined him being sent to confinement at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Finding any panel that could survive defense challenges would have been almost impossible.
Their goal now must be to use the Secretary's authority to make a determination of the highest grade General Milley satisfactorily served and reduce him administratively to it. The pardon wouldn't prevent that. I know an Air Force case where a two-star was reduced to colonel and anothe where a colonel was reduced to a captain. Both were justified. But to take him down to three stars would require a determination that not only did he serve improperly as JCS Chairman, but also his previous post as Chief of Staff of the Army, also a four star job.
The real goal is to show that no one is safe from his retribution.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has decided to remove retired Gen. Mark A. Milley’s security detail, revoke his security clearance, and order an inspector general inquiry into his behavior as the Pentagon’s top officer, a senior defense official said Tuesday, taking extraordinary action against a frequent target of President Donald Trump.
Hegseth’s plan, first reported by Fox News, is part of the new defense secretary’s effort to reestablish “warfighter culture” in the Pentagon, the senior defense official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid backlash. The official portrayed Milley as a political operator while in the chairman role and said there is desire to “take a star” from him, meaning administration officials want to see Milley demoted in retirement.
I suspect their plans to recall him to active duty to court-martial him were blocked by Biden's pardon. Assuming they could have gotten a court panel (the military equivalent of a jury) of at least five 4-star generals to convict him and dismiss from the service, he would have lost his retirement pay. In their fever dreams, they might even imagined him being sent to confinement at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Finding any panel that could survive defense challenges would have been almost impossible.
Their goal now must be to use the Secretary's authority to make a determination of the highest grade General Milley satisfactorily served and reduce him administratively to it. The pardon wouldn't prevent that. I know an Air Force case where a two-star was reduced to colonel and anothe where a colonel was reduced to a captain. Both were justified. But to take him down to three stars would require a determination that not only did he serve improperly as JCS Chairman, but also his previous post as Chief of Staff of the Army, also a four star job.
The real goal is to show that no one is safe from his retribution.
Received the "Fork in the Mail" email when I arrived to work this morning. Leave now and retain pay and benefits through September. It will be interesting to see how many people in my building take it. Of course, this won't save taxpayer money if the number of federal jobs are not reduced. The email indicates overall reduction is the plan, but I've witnessed numerous plans that are just talk. And if the slugs stay while talented people take the buyout, that doesn't really help either. We'll see ...Trump administration offers roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign
An email went out to the federal workforce Tuesday evening, with a subject line that had ties to Elon Musk.www.nbcnews.com
I guess this might put the kibosh on Fetterman's playing footsie(or switching parties) with the MAGAts. At least temporarily.
Trump will probably make amends. Send him a new sweatshirt and gym shorts that he can wear to the floor of the Senate.
it is what always happens in these things. People who have opportunities elsewhere take the buyout and move on the people who have no options cling. My company does it every few years. I didn't qualify the last time we got the offer, time before that I had too many options that hadn't vested.
Is it possible for Trump to make a statement that doesn’t include a lie? Of course, many of his followers will endlessly repeat it as the truth.
Break things first, figure it out later.
Except not really the second part.
Except not really the second part.
He's probably just is looking for a way to replace people with sycophants.
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this message makes me hopeful that we are working towards getting Elon off the planet
I have very mixed feeling about this. Government needs to be reduced, but I'm skeptical this will accomplish much. A big problem is that the bureaucracy is a Rube Goldberg machine. There are so many unnecessary steps that have to be staffed to get the simplest thing done. (E.g., I just got some replacement dry erase markers for my white board that I ordered about five months ago. We can't just go down the street to Office Depot and get them. Requests have to be approved by a ridiculous amount of people, and that takes a stupid amount of time.)
So, shrinking the workforce without streamlining the RG machine probably won't make government work any better. To really fix government, it will take time and attention to detail. That is something the short-attention-span PTBs don't seem to have.
So, I'm not hating on Trump, et. al. for wanting to reduce the bloat. I'm just skeptical that this approach will achieve much.
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