General Discussion

Wiz Imp

(3,116 posts)

10. Well, somebody screwed up big time. On the other hand, the freeze wasn't supposed to go into effect until 5:00

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 05:40 PM

Tuesday

this afternoon. The fact that we're hearing reports of funding portals being shut off earlier today across a wide spectrum of programs, that leads me to believe the early shutdown was intentional.

By the way, this article explicitly says OMB included Medicaid, Food Stamps and head Start in the exemption.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-federal-funding-freeze-widespread-confusion-rcna189581

Trump's funding freeze creates widespread confusion

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.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

10 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Medicaid will be back up soon [View all] iemanja Tuesday OP

The WH claudette Tuesday #1

What a bunch of BS..... Lovie777 Tuesday #2

I guess his plan is to shut everything down, then re-open whatever systems he chooses. Think. Again. Tuesday #3

Perhaps depending on how much blowback he gets. iemanja Tuesday #5

It almost doesn't matter what... OneGrassRoot Tuesday #6

A lot of Rebl2 Tuesday #4

So the button to turn Medicaid on and off is in the White House? Autumn Tuesday #7

It was colossal incompetence on the part of the Trump administration Wiz Imp Tuesday #8

I believe the OMB order said that Medicare was specifically exempted from the freeze AZJonnie Tuesday #9

Well, somebody screwed up big time. On the other hand, the freeze wasn't supposed to go into effect until 5:00 Wiz Imp Tuesday #10