Hi there, everyone. It's Fort Gargan, New York. Here we go. Another day, another test for lawmakers and the judicial branch.

We are talking about the unprecedented and arguably unconstitutional move by Donald Trump to turn off the spigots of government funding for virtually

everything. It came in the form of a late night two-page letter from Donald Trump's Office of

Management and Budget, calling for, quote, ending wokeness and cutting off federal funds for, quote,

Marxist, equity, transgenderism, and green New Deal, social engineering,

end quote. That's what the memo said, but what it does is slam the brakes on federal funding

that touches virtually every aspect of American life and every American family. And not just

down the road at some point in the future, a fight we can have

later. It does it right now, one hour from right now, in fact, at 5 p.m. Eastern. And in such

sweeping but non-specific vague terms that the Wall Street Journal reports, the memo has, quote,

sowed widespread confusion, prompting government officials,

lawmakers, nonprofits, and others to parse through down to the footnotes to try to understand

which programs would be halted, leaving, quote, states and local government scrambling to assess

the impact of a broad and far-reaching order by the White House to pause hundreds of billions

in federal grants, loans, and other financial assistance programs pending a review by the Trump

administration. That's the bureaucratic confusion and chaos. But what makes the stakes so very high

is how this will be felt in the lives of real people, real American families, real

voters who fear that they're about to have the proverbial rug pulled out from under them.

Calls are flooding in, just sheer panic that at five o'clock tonight, the funds that they count on,

whether it's for our schools, Title I, whether it's our hospitals

who are doing research, whether it is our community health centers who are providing

care for people in line right now in rural communities in my state, whether they will be able

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