Washington – The Trump government led on Tuesday among democratic leaders, state officials and federal program managers with a vague arrangement that allegedly stopped “all financial support”, while the financing summarizes with the agenda of the new president.
The guideline from the office for management and household – which the White House released late Monday and quickly declined on Tuesday – Sported California and other countries to announce a law , which would damage population groups in need of protection.
“We will not be state, while the president tries to disturb important programs that feed our children, provide medical care and support our families in our communities,” California Atty. General Rob Bonta said at a press conference. “We will not be ready while the president violates the law and exceeds his authority, as stated in our constitution.”
Bonta said that the order threatens trillion dollars of federal financing, and “ruthless, it was dangerous, unprecedented and devastating in its intended effect.”
New York Atty. Gen. Letitia James, who leads the efforts with Bonta, described the memo as “clearly unconstitutional”.
“The president cannot decide which laws should be forced and for whom,” said James. “If the congress dedicates financing for a program, the president cannot get this financing out of a mood.”
After a day of swirling speculation, Bonta and James spoke about the scope of the order – which the White House played down when it looked at the reach of the order.
The White House published an updated memo on Tuesday, in which a list of programs was expanded that have been freed from the financing break, including social security, Medicare, Medicaid and the nutrition program mentioned as a SNAP. Bundestaging would also be except for small companies, farmers, Pell Grant recipients, head start, rental aid “and other similar programs,” said the White House.
Karoline Leavitt, Trump's press spokeswoman, said the guideline was “not a flat-rate break for federal aid and grant programs” and that everyone who receives “individual support from the federal government” would continue to receive this help. She also found that the cuts that were supposed to come into force on Tuesday afternoon were temporary and that the leaders of federal programs could call Trump's budget officials to determine that their programs should not be frozen.
She also suggested that the administration in the area of the order was clear and the confusion on this front was limited to the media.
Both James and Bonta said that the attempts by the White House to minimize the scope of the order after program managers and fearsome recipients were confused across the country, their concerns were not solved or the need for their lawsuit.
On the contrary, Bonta said that the initial order had “rejected state programs in chaos” and the attempts by the White House to further illustrate the confusion further “further fueled”.
James said that some states had already reported that the funds had been frozen, also for programs that would not be affected by the White House. Many states have been excluded from their Medicaid refund systems, she said. Other programs that are affected in various states were starting and child development block grants, she said.
In California, federal funds and grants of 168.3 billion US dollars are expected to be distributed on June 30 in the course of the financial year. The officials assess what is at risk with this financing. The Los Angeles officials also report to the order level at the local level, which, according to internal e -mails, were able to affect the apartment vouchers and the grants for homeless.
Bonta said he coordinates with other civil servants and believes that the federal state disaster relief for the recovery of Las is endangered after the order.
The turmoil began late Monday, after Matthew J. Vaeth, deputy director of the Office for Management and Household, published a memo in which a “temporary break” for grants, loans and other financial support was announced.
Vaeth wrote that the voters Trump had given a “mandate to increase the effects of every taxpayer dollar of the federal government”, and Trump had to determine which government expenditure matched with his agenda.
“Financial support should work for the administrative priorities, concentrate taxpayers' dollars on a stronger and safer America, the financial burden of inflation for citizens, the publication of American energy and production, the completion of the“ wokesess ”and the weapons of the government The promotion of efficiency in promoting the promotion of “woking” and promoting efficiency in the government and America again, ”he wrote. “The use of federal resources to promote marxist justice, transgenderism and Green New Deal Social Engineering guidelines is a waste of taxpayers that do not improve the daily life of those we serve.”
The Democrats immediately began to sound alarms and to describe the guideline as unconstitutional and far beyond the framework of Trump's power as president, since the congress generally appropriates financing, not the white house.
The deputy chairman of the Senate, Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Said that the fact that “the congress has the power of the wallet is” very clear “in the constitution.
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-ORE.), The Supreme Democrat in the Senate Household Committee, described the Move of the White House as a “constitutional crisis”. His committee is said to vote on Thursday by Trump's appointment of Russ as a budget chief of the White House. VOUGHT is the architect of spending.
The original memorandum ordered all federal authorities to carry out a “comprehensive analysis” of their editions, to determine which “matches the president's guidelines” and the FRUMP that Trump has given in the past few days.
In the meantime, the federal authorities – to the extent that is permitted according to applicable laws – must have all payments of funds or “other relevant agency activities”, which can be covered by Trump's commands, “including, but not limited, financially limited” Take a break. Support for foreign help, non -governmental organizations, Dei, the gender -specific ideology and the Green New Deal, ”wrote Vaeth.
The break, according to the memo, will give the Trump administration time to “determine the best uses of financing”.
The leading Republicans largely defended the move – which indicates that it was a normal action for an in -depth administration.
“I think this is a normal practice at the beginning of the administration until you have the opportunity to check how the money is spent,” said John Thune, majority leader of the Senate, on Tuesday morning.
Democrats did not agree – and played particularly critical reactions about the clarifications of the White House.
The chairman of the Senate Minister, Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.), described the guideline as “outrageous” and “a dagger in the heart of the average American family in Red States and blue states, in cities, in suburbs, in rural areas”.
The former spokesman for the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), wrote that Trump's “illegal program will increase the costs, violate working families and refuse critical resources for needy Americans”. MP John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove) said the order would lead to the Americans suffering.
A coalition with the American public health system Assn. and the national council of non -profit organizations are independently challenging The memo also in court.
The order followed a separate guideline of the Trump government to stop a wide range of foreign aid.
Mark A. Peterson, a UCLA professor who studies public order and political science, said that the original memo was without precedent and left “extreme ambiguity about what it influences and how it applies” and its duration.
“Everything that has the aroma of dealing with justice or inclusion problems in threat from the point of view of the Trump administration,” said Peterson – and “there is so much misunderstanding about what these problems are.”
Bonta said that he fears that the recent guidelines of the White House will further endanger federal financing for disaster relief from Waldbrand to LA fires. The Republicans are already talking about the conditioning of such funding from Democrats who agree to certain demands, as Bonta found – what he said was worrying.
“We need it, we need it now, we needed it yesterday and without conditions,” he said.
Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island would join California and New York in the complaint, officials said.
Pinho reported from Washington, Rector from San Francisco, Alpert Reyes from Los Angeles. Time's staff author Taryn Luna in Sacramento contributed to this report.