And that's not even getting into that this is, by an ocean, the largest case of illegal executive impounding this nation has ever seen, with downright insane, Orwellian language used as justification and very little actual clarification as to what it actually means. For instance, are Pell grants included? They're for individuals but dispersed by universities. Medicare is safeguarded, but Medicaid?
Just fantastic. Slide and slide.
It's clear, but political power only exists if it's used. If congress grants this power to the executive, they render themselves all but irrelevant. They'd be a rather expensive and unattractive claque.
Not a good time to be a federally funded research and development corporation (NASA JPL, Fermi National Accelerator, Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, NCAR, Oak Ridge, SLAC, etc)
It also appears to pause Medicaid funding. That impacts 85M people and half of all childbirths.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/2...
> Although the White House in a memo stated that Medicare and Medicaid would not be affected by the freeze, Illinois on Tuesday reported that state agencies could not access federal funding sites that included Medicaid.
> State agencies started reporting issues to Gov. JB Pritzker’s office Tuesday morning with accessing federal funding sites and disbursement systems, including Medicaid systems, his office said. Pritzker has been in communication with the state’s federal delegation, local elected officials, nonprofits and other governors about the matter.
