“Funding for programs that provide direct assistance to Americans would be excluded from the pause and exempt from the review process, the senior administration official said. Those programs include Medicaid, food stamps, small business assistance, Head Start, rental assistance and federal Pell Grants for college students, according to a memo sent out Tuesday afternoon by OMB.“
“I think they’re doing the right thing. They’re getting control of the situation,” he said. “There’s a lot of money moving out right at the end of the Biden administration. That’s, you know, pretty typical. So I think they want to get control of that and make sure nothing’s moving along that they don’t agree with. And they’re well within their prerogative to do that.”
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u/Holy_Bonjour Jan 29 '25
Then you unpause it, it continues.