WASHINGTON — The White Home’s funds workplace ordered authorities companies to pause grants and loans on a number of presidency packages, the newest in a freeze on federal motion that has upended well being companies.
The interior memo, despatched on Monday, explicitly targets gender-affirming care and world monetary help, citing two of President Trump’s priorities throughout his marketing campaign and his preliminary storm of govt orders on Inauguration Day. Its broad language about “grants and loans” might ensnare a variety of different federal well being and help packages, well being care and authorized consultants speculated late Monday.
The memo from Matthew Vaeth, performing director for the White Home Workplace of Administration and Finances, instructs every company to research all their monetary help packages and assess which of them fall afoul of the sequence of govt orders Trump issued this final week. Specifically, packages associated to overseas monetary help, nongovernmental organizations, variety and inclusion, and “woke gender ideology,” have to be briefly paused for a assessment, the memo acknowledged.
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