The federal funding freeze.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescindeda memo that had paused trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans, and other financial assistance programs. The memo had called for agencies to perform a “comprehensive analysis” of their grant and loan programs to ensure compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive orders, but was broadly written and created confusion over the scope of the funding freeze. Prior to the memo’s rescission, a federal judge had paused its orders from going into effect after a coalition of nonprofits and businesses sued to stop its implementation.
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| 1:08.8 | this is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, |
| 1:27.9 | some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm your host, John Law, and today we are going to be talking about the federal funding freeze |
| 1:36.1 | and the recently rescinded memo that came from the Office of Management and Budget. |
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