On Jan. 27, the Trump administration released a memo which would “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance.”
The impetus for this absolute madness is to secure funding against “DEI, woke gender ideology, and the new green deal.”
This is dangerous and transparently illegal.
First, to state the obvious, this order is an obvious smokescreen, invoking a grab bag of far-right bogeyman as means to justify an authoritarian power grab. And second, and of immediate importance, this measure would make kids go hungry, people lose their homes, people lose their health care, people lose their jobs, and it is literally going to get people killed.
Literally. Actually. Here and now. At your kids’ school, in your friends’ lives and in your neighbors’ homes.