‘This isn’t a blanket pause on federal help and grant packages,’ the White Home press secretary mentioned.
The Workplace of Administration and Finances’s (OMB) pause on federal grants, loans, and help won’t have an effect on Social Safety, Medicare, or meals stamps, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned on Jan. 28.
“This isn’t a blanket pause on federal help and grant packages,” she mentioned. The pause won’t have an effect on social help advantages like Medicare and Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP), or meals stamps.
“If you’re receiving particular person help from the federal authorities, you’ll nonetheless proceed to obtain that,” Leavitt mentioned. “The rationale for this [pause is] to make sure that each penny that’s going out the door will not be conflicting with the manager orders and actions that this president has taken.”
She mentioned that the pause was directed at variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) packages and “Inexperienced New Deal social engineering insurance policies.”
The pause can be momentary whereas OMB critiques the affected packages’ funding and whether or not they’re “vital and according to the president’s agenda,” Leavitt mentioned.
Leavitt mentioned later within the briefing that she would offer an inventory of which packages had been affected and the way a lot funding had been frozen.
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Aldgra Fredly contributed to this report.