U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan ordered the Trump administration not to halt grant funding until at least Feb. 3, when another hearing will be held on the dispute.
A group of at least six attorneys general from Democratic-led states – New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island – filed a similar lawsuit.
The legal argument in both cases was, essentially, that the Constitution grants Congress the power to determine spending, not the president.
The very reason budgets need to be looked at closely and SHUTDOWN the fucking government next time .
Donald Trump Blocks $50 Million Funding for Condoms in Gaza
The Trump administration put a freeze on federal funding, including $50 million originally earmarked for condom distribution in Gaza, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The freeze, now temporarily blocked by a federal judge, was part of a broader fiscal policy aimed at reviewing and potentially reallocating federal budget expenditures to align with the administration’s priorities.
The freeze is on temporary so the administration can determine if American taxpayers are funding the bedroom behavior of other foreign countries.
Leavitt went on to tell reporters that the Biden administration “spent money like drunken sailors.”
While the American people were struggling to buy groceries and fill up their gas tanks, the Democrats were tending to the sexual peccadilloes of Gazans and their Hamaz overlords.
See any wasteful spend JUDGE ???
$12 million grant for a 30-court pickleball complex in Las Vegas.
$10 billion in federal funds wasted on maintaining empty or largely-empty government buildings.
$300,000 on bird-watching groups.
$20 million on the Fertilize Right initiative “to advance fertilizer use in Pakistan, Vietnam, Colombia, and Brazil.”
$365,000 promote circuses in city parks
$140 million in COVID-19 relief funds to construct a luxury hotel
$70 million to make Staten Island Ferry is free .
$50 million on Tunisia’s tourism
$2.3 million injecting puppies with cocaine for research.
Outrage over Trump’s Office of Management and Budget order freezing all federal spending led 22 Senate Democrats to switch their votes to ‘No’ on relatively uncontroversial Trump nominee Sean Duffy to be Secretary of Transportation on Tuesday.
Duffy’s nomination advanced through a procedural vote 97-0 on Monday, but by Tuesday afternoon 22 Democrats, including Senators Bernie Sanders, Catherine Cortez Masto, and Tammy Duckworth switched their vote, and Duffy was confirmed on a 77-22 vote.
President Trump got someones attention ! LMAO
DOGE is saving the Federal Government approx. $1 billion/day, mostly from stopping the hiring of people into unnecessary positions, deletion of DEI and stopping improper payments to foreign organizations, all consistent with the President’s Executive Orders.
A good start, though this number needs to increase to > $3 billion/day.
Does shutting down the government mean no SS payments? No Medicare? If so… I can’t get behind that.
NO .Medicare , Medicaid , SS , food stamps , small business assistance , head start ,pell grants ,and rental assistance were ALL EXEMPT in the EO .
This was clearly stated BUT the media wanted everyone to think different and get everyone in a panic .
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As part of this freeze, no Federal civilian position that is vacant at noon on January 20, 2025, may be filled, and no new position may be created except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum or other applicable law. Except as provided below, this freeze applies to all executive departments and agencies regardless of their sources of operational and programmatic funding.
Moreover, nothing in this memorandum shall adversely impact the provision of Social Security, Medicare, or Veterans’ benefits. In addition, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) may grant exemptions from this freeze where those exemptions are otherwise necessary.
The memo specifies the pause will not affect Social Security or Medicare benefits, nor does it include “assistance provided directly to individuals.”
“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.
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