Environmental defenders have warned that it could have severe severe consequences for Americans if this is in effect.
“From the White House, this is the reckless stroke of the pen,” Manish Babna, Chairman of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement. “On the ground, it’s a cold house in the death of winter. It is a child walking in school. It is a family that cannot pay the rent. It is the high costs of benefit for low -income families in every state.”
The list of programs includes dozens across the Ministry of Internal Security, which includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Samantha Montano, an auxiliary professor of emergency management at the Massachusetts Academy, said that the assistance pause can stop the programs of that agency that is effective in government governments and local governments.
“I think it is fair to say that all federal scholarships stop will have a terrible impact on the emergency management system in the United States,” she said. “This would make us less willing to any disasters that occur in the future and will make it more difficult for disaster survivors who are in the midst of an attempt to rebuild their lives to do so.”
Montano said these offices do not focus purely on weather disasters.
“We are also talking about granting the security of the port, terrorism and cybersecurity.” “This is the full national security that is at risk when you take away these grants.”
Maria Lopez Nunez, an environmental justice consultative company, said that state agencies and non -profit organizations have already been closed from a federal system to reach grant funds. A wide range of programs that are likely to be affected, from a grant in North Carolina to help rural communities reaching the sewers and clean water to the state’s government programs to place water pipelines.
For many smaller non -profit organizations, the delay in accessing federal grant financing may leave them unable to make salary statements, or complete their programs.
“They are the key to freezing, financing the necessary grants that many countries need for vital services,” said Lopez-Noniz, who was a member of the White House Environmental Advisory Council during the Biden administration.
In North Carolina, where societies are still recovering from Hurricane Helen, a spokeswoman for the state’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or Deq, she said that the agency “reviews and evaluates the memo” and its potential effects, adding, “Federal funds provide AA a large part of the DeQ’s operating budget as well as Billions of dollars in North Carolina.
The instructions of the agencies have included more than 400 programs under the US Department of Agriculture, from emergency food aid to supporting farmers’ markets and water saving initiatives. As is on the list one of the largest, most popular and effective initiatives, memorization reserve program.
Many legal experts said they were skeptical of the legitimacy of the money suspension. While some said to the presidents It can be packed temporarily The spending in some circumstances, others said that the measures directed by the memo clearly violate the constitutional limits.
“The law is unambiguous: Congress controls federal spending, and no executive action can be overcome this power,” Jillian Blanchard, Director of Climate Change and Environmental Justice in Lawyers told good government. “This matter not only violates the constitution, but also threatens cash programs and societies by relying on this funding, which will affect hundreds of jobs throughout the country.”
It comes at a time when some science, environment and energy programs were already attached to their work. on monday, NPR mentioned The National Science Corporation has canceled the grant reviews of this week. Multiple news organizations stated that the Ministry of Energy has stopped billions of dollars from loans, grants and other spending.
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