President Trump’s administration launched an outcry on January 27, suspended federal expenses for subsidies and loans.Credit: Joe Raedle / Getty
Update: In a memo sent to federal agencies on January 29, the administration of American president Donald Trump canceled his January 27 order which would have frozen loans and federal subsidies from January 28. But Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary of the White House, said on the companyAl-Media X platform that the last blow is not a cancellation of the financing freezing But a withdrawal from the order of January 27. We do not know what federal subsidies and loans are frozen.
Researchers in the United States are in shock after the administration of the new president Donald Trump An order on January 27, which proud of all federal subsidies and loans. A Washington DC federal judge temporarily blocked the order late today, but he had already prompted many American universities to advise teachers to spend federal dollars for travel, new research projects, equipment and Even more.
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“If they are allowed to get away with it, the disturbance is almost incalculable,” said John Holdren, former American scientific advisor to Democratic President Barack Obama.
The order is only the last in a flow of White House directives on federal spending, diversity and other programs that have sown chaos and confusion in the American scientific community. During the last week, the Trump administration ordered staff members of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), responsible for protecting American health, stopping to communicate with the World Health Organization and Rub most federal websites of any material on diversity. In addition, agencies such as the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the main donors of basic American science, have suspended research research meetings on research.
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The researchers are not motionless: hundreds of scientists have entered into action on The social platform of the Bluesky media To organize a rally at the White House today and organize sessions so that people call their elected officials to stop freezing.
Scientists are concerned about the long -term effects of the actions of the administration. “It will be much easier to destroy the world’s largest scientific ecosystem than to rebuild it,” said Carole Labonne, a development biologist at the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
The White House, the NIH and the NSF did not answer questions about the extent of the order, when it is lifted or the concerns of scientists.
Frozen in place
The spending freezing was described in a service note of January 27 at the Board Management and Budget Office (OMB), which ordered the federal agencies to “temporarily suspend all activities related to the obligation or disbursement of all federal financial aid ”. He distinguished spending on “foreign aid, non -governmental organizations, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), awakened gender ideology and green new deal”, the name Trump gave to climate legislation Adopted during the administration of its Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden.
As reported by journalist Marisa KabasThe memo was challenged before the court by a coalition of states and legal experts which argue that it illegally suspended the funds appropriate by the American Congress. Matthew Lawrence, an expert in administrative law from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, says that the American Constitution gives the Congress, not to the president, the power to appropriate funds. A prescription which imposes “a judgment at all levels, and without special message … would violate the law on the control of deduction,” he said, referring to a law of 1974 which limited the power of the president to the seizure or The restraint of funding.
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The great language of the note of the note which left the researchers combined about the part of the annual expenses of around 200 billion dollars of the research and development of the country. Worried about the risk of non-compliance and without more clarity, many university officials have already started to freeze funding in their institutions. For example, the University of Chicago in Illinois informed its faculty members on Tuesday that they should suspend certain expenses for subsidies issued by the federal government.
“We must for the moment proceed by assuming that the expenses of grants incurred after today, while this memorandum is in force cannot be covered by federal funding,” wrote Katherine Baicker in an email to the members Functional. “This is not a request that I make lightly.”
Elusive clarity
The CMOB has published a memo today specifying that the financing break does not apply to benefits programs such as Medicare, which provides health care to the elderly in the United States, and it stressed that the ‘Order of January 27 sets up a process for agencies to determine which spending is allocated. After examination, the spending break could be “as short as (a) day,” said clarification, without offering a specific program of the program whose funding had been restored.