Trump’s Project 2025 Executive Order Halts Federal, States, and Locals Governments Dead In The Water

‘Self-made disaster’: Trump White House takes heat over funding freeze

Jan 29, 2025 #Trump #WhiteHouse #federalfunding Ali Velshi on the White House rescinding the Trump funding freeze memo: “Do not miss what happened here: a widespread backlash from politicians, but also from activists, from nonprofits, from lawyers, from everyday people forced this reversal.”

Federal Government Agencies Impacted

There are at least 500 individual programs that are administered by the impacted federal agencies below:

  1. Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
  2. Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Fund
  3. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CSPC)
  4. Corporation for National and Community Service
  5. Delta Regional Authority (DRA)
  6. Denali Commission
  7. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  8. Department of Commerce (DOC)
  9. Department of Defense (DOD)
  10. Department of Education (ED)
  11. Department of Energy (DOE)
  12. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
  13. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  14. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  15. Department of Justice (DOJ)
  16. Department of Labor (DOL)
  17. Department of State (DOS)
  18. Department of Transportation (DOT)
  19. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
  20. Department of the Interior (DOI)
  21. Department of the Treasury
  22. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  23. Executive Office of the President (WH)
  24. Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM)
  25. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
  26. Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Appraisal Subcommittee (FFIEC)
  27. Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council
  28. General Services Administration (GSA)
  29. Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council
  30. Inter-American Foundation (IAF)
  31. Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC)
  32. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
  33. Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation (EPA)
  34. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
  35. National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
  36. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
  37. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
  38. National Science Foundation (NSF)
  39. Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC)
  40. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
  41. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
  42. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
  43. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)
  44. Social Security Administration (SSA)
  45. Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
  46. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
  47. U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)
  48. U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
  49. U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
  50. U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP)
  51. U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

OMB Q&A Regarding Memorandum M-25-13 – The White House1. January 28, 2025.

In implementing President Trump’s Executive Orders, OMB issued guidance requesting that agencies temporarily pause, to the extent permitted by law, grant, loan or federal financial assistance programs that are implicated by the President’s Executive Orders.

Any program not implicated by the President’s Executive Orders is not subject to the pause.

The Executive Orders listed in the guidance are:

Protecting the American People Against Invasion

Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid

Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements

Unleashing American Energy

Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing

Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government

Enforcing the Hyde Amendment

Any program that provides direct benefits to individuals is not subject to the pause.

The guidance establishes a process for agencies to work with OMB to determine quickly whether any program is inconsistent with the President’s Executive Orders. A pause could be as short as day. In fact, OMB has worked with agencies and has already approved many programs to continue even before the pause has gone into effect.

Any payment required by law to be paid will be paid without interruption or delay.

Q: Is this a freeze on all Federal financial assistance?

A: No, the pause does not apply across-the-board. It is expressly limited to programs, projects, and activities implicated by the President’s Executive Orders, such as ending DEI, the green new deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations that undermine the national interest.

Q: Is this a freeze on benefits to Americans like SNAP or student loans?

A: No, any program that provides direct benefits to Americans is explicitly excluded from the pause and exempted from this review process. In addition to Social Security and Medicare, already explicitly excluded in the guidance, mandatory programs like Medicaid and SNAP will continue without pause.Funds for small businesses, farmers, Pell grants, Head Start, rental assistance, and other similar programs will not be paused. If agencies are concerned that these programs may implicate the President’s Executive Orders, they should consult OMB to begin to unwind these objectionable policies without a pause in the payments.

Q: Is the pause of federal financial assistance an impoundment?

A: No, it is not an impoundment under the Impoundment Control Act. It is a temporary pause to give agencies time to ensure that financial assistance conforms to the policies set out in the President’s Executive Orders, to the extent permitted by law. Temporary pauses are a necessary part of program implementation that have been ordered by past presidents to ensure that programs are being executed and funds spent in accordance with a new President’s policies and do not constitute impoundments.

Q: Why was this pause necessary?

A: To act as faithful stewards of taxpayer money2, new administrations must review federal programs to ensure that they are being executed in accordance with the law and the new President’s policies.

  1. @RalphHightower: Trump’s Executive Order has been deleted. HTTP404 ↩

  2. @RalphHightower: Trump doesn’t give a fuck about being a good steward. ↩

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