tRUMP stopping all payments ...

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I've been watching the ongoing work in Calif. by the EPA to clean up some of the sites in the Palisades burn area (which is going to take a long, long time to clean up all of it), and I hope that this activity isn't stopped.

I feel for these people in Calif. They have lost the majority of everything they have, their homes, belongings, etc. and for tRUMP to be a hypocrite to Governor Galvin and say that those Calif. efforts will continue stinks, if these Calif. efforts are stopped. I would suspect that leaving all of this untouched and not handled would cause even more issues, e.g., toxic substances released by the burning fumes etc., all free to freely mingle into the surrounding environment.

I imagine that funding has already been approved and provided by prior administrations, so tRUMP slowing down these sorts of expenditures should not be allowed since the expenditures were already ID'ed and approved. Perhaps the states have already gotten their funds already for EPA issues previously ID'ed, and funds for new ones under emergency decrees that have come up (the Pacific Palisades, for example).

Perhaps Calif. has its own Superfund to clean up environmental messes, I know that Gov. Galvin had moved to set up funds for use when tRUMP came into power, so...

In any event, I hope that they get this giant and tragic mess handled w/ care and speed. This is a massive tragedy to not be played w/ via the political arena.

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1. Democrats: 'Insane' Trump power grab on federal grants 'blatantly disobeys the law'

Federal grants finance much of modern American life. If Team Trump simply stops the money from flowing, the consequences are difficult to measure.
https://bsky.app/profile/actiontogethernj.bsky.social/post/3lgsmt42wns2y

Democrats: 'Insane' Trump power grab on federal grants ‘blatantly disobeys the law’
Federal grants finance much of modern American life. If Team Trump simply stops the money from flowing, the consequences are difficult to measure.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/democrats-insane-trump-power-grab-federal-grants-blatantly-disobeys-la-rcna189562

The consequences of the Trump administration’s decision to halt almost all foreign aid continue to reverberate. The New York Times reported last week that the freeze is affecting international programs “aimed at alleviating hunger, disease and wartime suffering around the globe, as well as ones that help nations with economic development.”

It’s against this backdrop that the White House is apparently halting domestic grants, too. NBC News reported:

President Donald Trump has ordered a freeze to domestic and foreign federal aid in a sweeping effort to stop government funding for causes that don’t fit with his agenda. A memo sent out Monday night from Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the changes would go into effect Tuesday at 5 p.m. ET and relate to a string of executive orders Trump has signed since taking office last week.

The existence of the memo was first reported by Marisa Kabas, a New York-based journalist who published the document on Bluesky......

It is not a secret that Trump and his team, after running on an authoritarian-style campaign platform, want to wrestle control over the power of the purse, shifting authority from Congress to the White House, despite the framework of our constitutional system of government. It’s precisely why there’s been so much discussion of late about the Impoundment Control Act.

We’re now starting to see what those ambitions look like when pursued as a matter of government policy.,,,

What’s more, Schumer’s statement, referring to administration officials, added, “They say this is only temporary, but no one should believe that.”

As for the potential political impact, a Politico report noted that in the coming days, “we’re going to discover the full range of programs, projects and initiatives whose funds have suddenly been blocked. And given the sweeping scale of the order, it seems unlikely these will all be glowingly liberal, woke-tastic DEI projects in coastal America. This order is going to affect communities the length and breadth of the country.

“Be careful what you wish for, Mr. President.”