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Trump shuts down government aid spending


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2025 Jan 28, 10:52am   473 views  43 comments

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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/baptism-of-fire-tuesday-january-28


What Trump has done was, until yesterday, unimaginable. ...

It came in two parts (so far). Yesterday, Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) unleashed a two-page memo upon the entire federal government. It was nothing less than a multi-trillion-dollar, whole-of-government spending freeze, excepting only a small handful of essential items like Medicare, emergency relief, payrolls, and Social Security. Like that, Trump shut down the government.

You can be sure that nothing like this has ever happened before. It has completely flipped the script. Instead of Trump trying vainly to wrestle control over a vast bureaucracy, now the bureaucrats must come to Trump for permission to do anything.

Overnight, Trump has managed to turn the vast, out-of-control federal bureaucracy into a command-and-control system.

Here’s a link to a copy of the memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Read the whole thing. It’s only two pages, and it might be one of the single most significant government actions in our lifetimes. ...

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1884102029410234491

Starting at 5pm today, all government financial assistance (excluding the aforementioned categories) must be temporarily frozen until further notice, after Trump Administration officials can “review” all government expenses to “determine the best uses of the funding.” ...

If the President is the nation’s chief executive, shouldn’t everything be centralized in his office? And if it got out of control, shouldn’t some President get it back under control?

The second, companion order, described in the Politico article, was a “Stop Work” order issued on Friday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio (and “clarified” yesterday). Rubio’s order shut down all foreign aid and operations, full stop, and also curtailed staff communication about the order, effective immediately. (Aid to Egypt and Israel were excepted, but it included Ukraine and Taiwan.)

Under the stop-work order, all state aid programs must be entered into a centralized database where they can be reviewed. Not one dollar can go out until that happens. Now, you might have already thought everything was in a centralized database, but no. And that is part of the problem.

Like the OMB Memo, Rubio’s stop-work order is a full-scale shutdown of U.S. foreign aid operations, going far beyond a normal policy review. By restricting all bureaucratic discretion, and freezing all existing contracts, it is one of the most aggressive funding halts in modern U.S. diplomatic history.

Between the OMB memo and the State Department stop-work order, the Trump Administration is forcing a total reset on federal spending, and collecting all spending into a centralized database where an agency like DOGE can have any hope of overseeing it.

It also means the Administration is forcing a total reset on federal policy, since spending is policy.

You could not possibly imagine a more disruptive strategy. It’s a live wire. You can mess around with DEI all you want and probably get away with it, but start messing with people’s money, and get ready for the fur to fly. The stoppage affects everything— red states, blue states, foreign countries, local governments, and perhaps most importantly, all the so-called NGOs. ...

Until now, government spending has operated on autopilot. Government money printer go brrrrrrr. Money flowed freely through an opaque, closed-top strainer, without transparency or direct executive oversight, and bureaucracies, NGOs, and foreign governments knew they would always get paid regardless of who was in the White House.

Trump just ended that assumption. This moment will forever be remembered as a turning point in American governance.

One of the biggest sources of funding for NGO’s —especially foreign NGO’s— is the State Department’s USAID, which many have long suspected was a CIA front for destabilization operations. According to the Kiev Post, USAID has distributed over $30 billion dollars to Ukrainian NGOs and contractors, a vast uncharted ocean of misspent money.

USAID is the deep state’s ATM.

Yesterday, the AP ran a story related to the financial freeze orders, headlined “US places dozens of senior aid officials on leave, citing possible resistance to Trump orders.”

According to the AP, 56 senior USAID personnel and “hundreds of contractors” were placed on immediate administrative leave yesterday, pending review, which is the closest thing to getting fired career bureaucrats get.

The dramatic USAID purge seems related to malicious compliance inside the agency. Someone leaked an internal USAID memo sent late yesterday, which quoted new acting administrator Jason Gray, who said he had identified “several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President’s Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people.”

Boom.

If Trump succeeds in these agency purges, and gathers the money strings back under White House control, in one transparent database, then the deep state as we knew it is finished.

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1   Ingrid   2025 Jan 28, 11:14am  

the panic is great. European news outlets have already posted about it. Panic all over - people will die ! they also made an extreme comment about the deportations, as if the deported are poor, suffering people instead of rapist, murderers and other criminals. Heck, even 'innocent' people illegally crossing the border commit a crime. There is a legal way to go to another country - just the way all of us legal immigrants came here.
2   50de4664cd8ed59077555340c687d684   2025 Jan 28, 11:18am  

Masterful! 👏 What controls these rogue, unaccountable Agencies & "ngo's"? MONEY. "Under review means under the whip! How many panty wearing bearded floozies will this discomport???
3   Ceffer   2025 Jan 28, 11:22am  

Wow. I'm getting wow'd to death.

It goes back to the flow of money and open government spigots on automatic pilot. Stop the flow of money, then the lapdogs have to justify their existence to get it again. NGOs are tentacles of the foreign hydras and, of course, virtue signaling expeditors of crime and trafficking.
4   Blue   2025 Jan 28, 11:22am  

NGOs are one of the biggest frauds in the world as of now.
5   Eric Holder   2025 Jan 28, 12:02pm  

So they won't be pushing LGBT shit on Christians anymore? Good.
6   Ceffer   2025 Jan 28, 12:09pm  

I think we will find that shutting them down will improve governance. They are being ordered by unelected and foreign agencies. They either do no work or they are doing active subversive work. The absence of those influences will be salutary, the absence of malignant disease.

Trump is pulling out the cogs of the machine and the cascade effect will be interesting.

https://apple.news/AHyE8WHMuRuKaLjWVApSkTg
7   Ceffer   2025 Jan 28, 12:24pm  

We are in a state of active warfare albeit 'soft civil war' and the Washington head of the snake is being short circuited. I always figured Trump couldn't do what he needed without a putsch. So far, it is a fiscal, firing and sidelining putsch, not a kinetic one, but I imagine kinetics will be obligatory at some level.

I wish Trump would post names and phones and emails of the members of the Senior Executive Service.

Stomping on Newscum's Noah Cross California water shenanigans with military is a big deal. It shows aggressive deployment against the installed election fraud apparatus in California.



https://t.me/Forbidden_History_tg/992
8   Ceffer   2025 Jan 28, 12:39pm  

The captured fake science and health agencies and democidal conspiracists and their fake science propaganda have been muzzled forthwith. Accountability pending? One would hopium.



https://t.me/Forbidden_History_tg/1001
10   Ceffer   2025 Jan 28, 12:47pm  

"If you like your Chinese printed fake ballots and rigged voting machines, you can't keep your Chinese printed fake ballots and rigged voting machines."
11   iloveCefferMemes   2025 Jan 28, 3:34pm  

This is mind boggling.
There's millions of federal grants.
Off the top of my head I know Federal money supports:

Big land grant universities (A land-grant university is a public institution that receives federal funding to support agricultural, mechanical, and scientific education).
ie. the University of California, Berkeley! and over 100 other universities.

State transportation infrastructure projects (roads/bridges).

NIH research grants.

Holy cow.
12   Misc   2025 Jan 28, 3:55pm  

Hegseth also put all new DoD contracts under review.

Let the Defense Contractors scream.
17   PeopleUnited   2025 Jan 28, 8:14pm  

$50 million for condoms in Gaza? W T FFFFFFFFFFFF?

Meanwhile, Americans who survived natural disasters are left to fend for themselves.Patrick says


If Trump succeeds in these agency purges, and gathers the money strings back under White House control, in one transparent database, then the deep state as we knew it is finished.

If trump succeeds in dismantling the deep state, he will not just be president, he will be worthy of the title Presidentlord. But, just remember this, nature abhors a vacuum. Getting rid of the deep state will create a vacuum that is going to be filled. So what will fill that vacuum? It could be worse than you’ve ever imagined. I’m not suggesting that the deep state doesn’t need to go. But what will take its place is the real question.
18   Ceffer   2025 Jan 28, 10:46pm  

Patrick says





It's all laundering. Trump is cutting off all the money laundering under all their fake banner and virtue signaling they could designate. This one was obviously an arrogant bird finger to the taxpayers of America, and the money intended to wind up in some Congress critters pockets.
19   AmericanKulak   2025 Jan 28, 11:34pm  

There are 2M Egyptian Illegals in Gaza. Premarital sex is punished with honor killings, beatings, and at least massive social shunning. $50M should keep them all in condoms for decades. In actuality, Hamas wants to use them as AK muzzle covers and fill them up with helium and use them as mini-balloon bombs.
20   Ceffer   2025 Jan 28, 11:40pm  

"You can go now with some benefits, or you can be fired later without. Your choice." The apparatchik apocalypse has arrived. Without rank and file, the real culprits have less cover to hide.

22   AmericanKulak   2025 Jan 29, 12:42am  

Ceffer says

"You can go now with some benefits, or you can be fired later without. Your choice." The apparatchik apocalypse has arrived. Without rank and file, the real culprits have less cover to hide.



The reaction:
https://patrick.net/post/1383400/2025-01-29-libtears-galore-fednews
23   WookieMan   2025 Jan 29, 2:23am  

iloveCefferMemes says

State transportation infrastructure projects (roads/bridges).

Is this bad? You likely don't have a job or a way to get to it without this. Usable infrastructure is honestly more important than military because it wouldn't exist. We have shit roads, guess what you don't get food. You don't get gas. And the military doesn't get it's parts to build things. Roads and rail are the backbone of this nation.
24   zzyzzx   2025 Jan 29, 7:07am  

Good. Foreigners will now have to hate us for free.
25   Patrick   2025 Jan 29, 10:45am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/forked-wednesday-january-29-2025


Late yesterday, Forbes ran a story headlined, “States And Nonprofits Suing Trump Over ‘Catastrophic’ Pause In Federal Funding: ‘Immediate Nationwide Harm’.” Yesterday played out just as I predicted, as progressives filed countless lawsuits in a vast, chaotic, terrified, deep-state reflex to the threat of even a temporary pause in their federal payments.

On top of the lawsuits —nobody knows yet how many, but it’s a lot— progressive activists took to social media to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The truth was the proposed freeze —now halted by a Delaware judge— would only affect non-profits and NGOs. Payment to individuals, such as Social Security or Medicare, were already exempt.

Among the frantic howls of protest, we have uncovered a universe of progressive NGOs and nonprofits who live off the federal government, and live very well, and nearly all of them are Democrat-aligned. It’s becoming clear why this ecosystem of federal finance is so opaque: to protect the extended part of the progressive deep state.

Project 2025 or whoever planned this assault on the Swamp must surely have anticipated these legal challenges. We must wait and see how they respond. But the Swamp-draining continued yesterday at a frantic pace, and a whole new front opened in Trump’s war with the deep state.
26   clambo   2025 Jan 29, 10:54am  

Trump understands what few people have grasped; almost the entire world lives from the USA.

Whether it's American welfare bums, millions of gold brick Federal workers, or defense department, they depend on the American taxpayer.

Overseas they want our money; NATO wants the American taxpayer to keep paying to defend Europe from Russia.

Businesses overseas need to sell the the American consumer; without him, they'll have to sell to their poor countrymen.

How much do you think a guy in India would pay for a pound of that pink rock salt they sell in Costco?

Impose tariffs, and they'll start to pay attention to what Americans want; cut off welfare to foreigners, and cut off money to the gold bricks, and they'll all cry and scream, but the party is over.
27   Eric Holder   2025 Jan 29, 11:25am  

clambo says

paying to defend Europe from Russia.


Why would anyone need defense from OUR GREAT CHRISTIAN LEADER? If you are not a Joo Nazi sitting in a BioWEAPONSlab growing mutant freeze-resistant mosquitos capable of strictly targeting Mordvins you have nothing to fear from the KIND AND BENIGHN KGB COLONEL.
28   Ceffer   2025 Jan 29, 11:35am  

The Washington (former DC) Laundry and Virtue Signaling Grifts are closed until further notice. Governors who act contrary to the interests of the people can expect fatigues on their doorsteps. Thank you for disarming the dazed and confused LibbyFucks, only the patriots are armed now.



https://t.me/tribunalsandexecutions/500111
29   Ceffer   2025 Jan 29, 11:49am  

Well, it was nice while it lasted. Maybe he'll be pursuing it with selective targeting. He's putting them on notice, anyway. It will be a negotiating posture, and the matter probably has to wind its way through the courts. I'm glad he shivered their timbers, even if it was only for a day or two. They're rattled.

https://t.me/gatewaypunditofficial/62101
30   GNL   2025 Jan 29, 12:07pm  

Ceffer says

The Washington (former DC) Laundry and Virtue Signaling Grifts are closed until further notice. Governors who act contrary to the interests of the people can expect fatigues on their doorsteps. Thank you for disarming the dazed and confused LibbyFucks, only the patriots are armed now.



https://t.me/tribunalsandexecutions/500111

That's because the $$ is the world reserve currency.
32   Ceffer   2025 Jan 29, 2:45pm  

Out of blight, out of mind. Maybe they can use the credit cards and bank deposits to fund this.

https://t.me/BannonWarRoom/62523
33   OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething   2025 Jan 29, 2:47pm  

Patrick says


Project 2025 or whoever planned this assault on the Swamp must surely have anticipated these legal challenges. We must wait and see how they respond. But the Swamp-draining continued yesterday at a frantic pace, and a whole new front opened in Trump’s war with the deep state.


All Trump has to do is tie this up in the courts for a few months. Because these NGOs won't even be able to make payroll w/o this funding within the first month. The staff will quit.

After about 3 months, many will get evicted from their offices too.
34   ForcedTQ   2025 Jan 29, 2:51pm  

The crazy Democrats and Rhinos think Trump is DESTROYING the government. When actually he’s just trying to limit it back to the box it’s supposed to be in, and he hasn’t even got to the point of getting rid of unconstitutional agencies that have been around for so long the normal person on the street thinks that they are ok…
35   Ceffer   2025 Jan 29, 3:46pm  

So, it's back on again? Good.

36   Ceffer   2025 Jan 29, 4:01pm  

No more ad hoc money spigots for launderers, centralized line item disbursements based on examination and justification in the public forum.



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37   HeadSet   2025 Jan 29, 6:30pm  

Ceffer says

More FOFA in action.

FOFA? Maybe there is an mRNA cure for dyslexia.
38   Patrick   2025 Jan 31, 11:07am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/incursions-friday-january-31-2025


It might have been a better idea not to sue, but now it’s too late. Cutting off their money was too provocative to resist, and several lawsuits are already underway, with at least one lower-court judge having ordered a temporary stay of the domestic funding freeze. It’s on.

The judge stayed the domestic spending freeze, but the State Department’s freeze on foreign aid remains in play. And magical, if not miraculous fruit is already growing on the tree of Secretary Rubio’s foreign funds freeze. The freeze is rooting out hidden truths. The howls of protest from funding recipients are giving away the never-before-known positions where the dark money had been flowing, and the emerging battlescape is even uglier than you would have thought.

Here’s one example. Bubbling up in protests from some smaller, less sophisticated Ukrainian media outlets was the astonishing fact that ninety percent of Ukrainian media is now U.S. funded. Or at least, it was till Trump stopped it. Wednesday’s headline (before it disappears) from Ukraine’s Institute for Mass Information:

OKSANA ROMANIUK: 90% OF UKRAINIAN MEDIA SURVIVED THANKS TO GRANTS
28.01.2025, 17:40
Nearly 90% of Ukrainian media survived thanks to grants. This is a consequence of the
advertising market in Ukraine dropping in the first year of Russia's full-scale invasion, by
92% in the online media sector in particular.
Oksana Romaniuk, director of the Institute of Mass Information (IMI), said this on
Hromadske Radio while discussing the outcomes of the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) suspending funding for all programs and projects
for 90 days.

Hilariously, ironically, and completely unselfconsciously, Director Romaniuk complained that freezing U.S. funding of basically all Ukrainian media would undermine “democracy and democratic institutions in Ukraine.” It got even funnier. Romaniuk scolded readers, warning them that “someone may want to take advantage of the situation to seize the media space, start controlling it, and thus turn the media into a tool for some kind of influence.”

You mean, like the US just did?

Hahaha! Stop! The irony! It hurts to laugh this hard! First, on an informational aside, most Ukrainian NGOs, including its legacy media, have begun desperately seeking donations to stay afloat in the fallout from Secretary Rubio’s foreign funding freeze. Democrats now have the chance to step up, in this time of trial, and put their own money where their I stand with Ukraine mouths are.

But do you stand with Ukraine, though? Show us.

Consider the brilliance of Trump’s global foreign funding freeze. How else could we, the hapless, information-starved American people, have learned what Biden’s State Department was buying with billions of our tax dollars? Trump made the recipients reveal themselves. The truth was buried below layer upon layer of neocon lies and official obfuscation. But Trump’s fearless freeze on opaque federal funding ripped off the masks, and now we’re frantically glancing around the room in horror, wondering what the Dickens have we gotten ourselves into here? And how are we going to get out of this?

The smarter, more politically savvy recipients of USAID are, no doubt, keeping quiet in public, which is why the outcry has been so muted. That, and because our corporate media understands the game. But there are just too many recipients. The whole thing is too big, especially in Ukraine. Many of the smaller grifters simply don’t understand our politics and the bad optics, and so they are telling us where the money was going, despite Biden’s neocon’s relentless efforts to keep us in the dark.

In other words, as the swamp drains, it’s gradually revealing all the bodies hidden beneath the water. Meanwhile, the Democrats still lack a coherent strategy or even a clear leader. Since the deep state must hide itself in order to exist, and since it works through the Democrat party, the party’s disarray disadvantages the deep state.
39   Patrick   2025 Jan 31, 11:23am  

https://www.kunstler.com/p/six-ways-from-sunday


In what way did “Joe Biden’s” Department of Homeland Security imagine that funneling known criminals, certified lunatics, and saboteurs across the border squared with their duty to protect and defend the country? And how did it happen that US taxpayers’ money got shelled out to fake “religious” NGOs in Mexico minting debit cards for border-jumpers, handing them wads of cash, cell phones, airplane tickets, fully-equipped backpacks, and apps for evading arrest? In effect these NGOs took over the exact job description of “coyote” formerly performed by the criminal cartels — leaving the cartels free for the more lucrative rackets of dealing fentanyl and trafficking women and children.
40   AmericanKulak   2025 Feb 2, 5:55pm  

USAID funneled taxpayer money to try to "Debunk" complaints about Refugee Programs AND smear Rudy as payback for his endorsement of Trump.





USAID was using NGOs to create Jobs for Left/Neoliberal Allies while smearing Patriots

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