White House orders pause on all federal grants and loans

“The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.”

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I fucking hate these people so much... "The things that aim to improve peoples lives don't enrich my donors or please the hateful heritage foundation so they're bad."

"those we serve" aka shareholders

This is absolutely bonkers, halts 10% of the US GDP overnight and will spark civil unrest if it goes on too long.

... will spark civil unrest ...
Don't tease me.
- They want that so they have an excuse to deploy the military against civilians.
- I can't stand comments like this. You act like civil unrest won't get people hurt, or maybe even killed.
Sadly, the civil unrest will be from Republicans who somehow blame everyone else for their dear leader taking a shit on the country, again.
- Might actually break the spell. Granted, they’re morons, so it might not.

Jesus... This will directly and unequivocally shrink the economy. That money? It's paid to businesses for services. He just fucked our GDP.

And it's going to disproportionately affect red states, because those are the states that receive the most federal grants.

They want to kill off the little fish that need that money. Also, this is a death nail for most nonprofits. Nonprofit, is a dirty word to oligarchs. Why do good things for no personal gain?! Watch for profit large corporations snap up assets and market shares of services previously provided by nonprofits and charities.
Everything he's done so far, and most of what he will do, will be bad for our economy
- Which is the point.
- Can you share the source for this image? This is fucking huge.
- This is straight up just misinformation, delete this. Deep seek is not a source.
- Tell me you didn’t just post a screenshot of AI slop.

It is also treason to tell an angry armed mob to go to the capitol and fight fight fight but look at all those harsh penalties he got for that
Pfft, like this is the first time Trump committed treason
Sadly, I worry the US needs to suffer badly if there is to be any hope of embracing real progress in the future.
- After the Great Depression happened the largest wave of worker protections and regulations were passed in US history.
  So maybe you're not wrong, we just need a Great Depression 2 unfortunately
- Need to? Nope. Is that what will happen? Probably, looking like that's the only way it will happen
- If he guts VA benefits, that might be the nail in his coffin. He's going to piss everyone off, then piss if trained killers even more.

Yeah, a lot of this is congressional mandated funding. You can't just take that away with the swipe of a pen. If congressional doesn't act, or many lawsuits don't get filed to challenge this, we really are living in the beginnings of a fascist regime, and we are meekly accepting it.

we really are living in the beginnings of a fascist regime, and we are meekly accepting it.
Ding ding ding
The thing is, you can maybe take it to court, but the suspension itself while a court examines it might be disruptive.
It looks like there are a number of federal loans preferentially extended to a number of groups (black-owned businesses, female-owned businesses, etc) by the Small Business Administration. If Trump intended to end minority-preferential lending, say, I could see that going over well with people who voted for him, but across-the-board temporary suspension while it's evaluated seems to me like it'd make a lot of people out there who voted for him unhappy.

Where the fuck is Congress?

Congress? You mean the two houses which are now firmly in control by Republicans. There there, and the Republican majority couldn't give a fuck what Trump does, as long as it destroys American democratic institutions. They weren't coy about this since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Congress, this congress, the one which was just installed, and elected this past November, is going to sit back, and watch it all burn. Ask about The Supreme Court next.
Cradling Trump's balls while he's golfing in Miami.
Enjoying the fruits of their investments.
- People get butthurt when you blame Democrats around here instead of the people doing it, but Democrats are just watching this shit go down.

He makes the ferengi look generous and benevolent.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-federal-grants-aid-pause-freeze-2021835

For now, it is not immediately clear exactly what will be impacted, although there is an exception for funding and grants paid directly to American citizens.

If this impacts farm and small business loans, I suspect that it is not going to take very long to produce a lot of political upset.

I saw in another post on this that it could also impact ~~student loans~~ federal college grants since those funds are given directly to universities. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out as spring term begins in a month or two.

Edited to use the right terminology.

OMB clarified that VA benefits and PELL Grants are not included.
I'm sure that'll change in... Forty seconds or so but as it stands now, the leopards have delayed eating those faces for now.
As spring term begins in a month or two.
Me preparing for midterms: Eyes look to side, look forward meme.

Trump advisor: "Sir, the debt limit is looming! Soon we won't be able to pay out money to anything!"

Trump:" Even if the congress approved it to be spent, we could just not spend it? Legally?"

Advisor:" Well, yes, that is what the debt limit does..."

Trump:" How about just stop spending on the stuff we don't like? You just said we could do that, even if it was approved..."