{"id":31775,"date":"2025-01-28T21:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/trump-administration-faces-lawsuit-over-pause-on-federal-grants-and-loans\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:03:34","slug":"trump-administration-faces-lawsuit-over-pause-on-federal-grants-and-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/trump-administration-faces-lawsuit-over-pause-on-federal-grants-and-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration faces lawsuit over pause on federal grants and loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memo says social security and Medicare are excluded but congressional Democrats express \u2018extreme alarm\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/28\/donald-trump-executive-orders-transgender-troops-dei-covid-us-politics-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has ordered a pause on all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, potentially upending programs relied upon by millions of Americans while also quickly earning his second presidential administration a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/newsgraphics\/documenttools\/da3a3829590efbb7\/b0c025ff-full.pdf\">two-page internal memo<\/a>, Matthew Vaeth, Trump\u2019s acting head of the office of management and budget (OMB), instructed all federal agencies to \u201ctemporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all federal financial assistance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/28\/trump-pauses-grants-loans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memo says social security and Medicare are excluded but congressional Democrats express \u2018extreme alarm\u2019 US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump has ordered a pause on all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, potentially upending programs relied upon by millions of Americans while also quickly earning his second presidential administration a lawsuit. &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration faces lawsuit over pause on federal grants and loans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/trump-administration-faces-lawsuit-over-pause-on-federal-grants-and-loans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration faces lawsuit over pause on federal grants and loans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}