A coalition of state prosecutors plans to file a complaint Tuesday afternoon to block a Budget Budget Budget Office which would freeze all federal grant programs before 5 p.m. Tuesday.
This decision was announced by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic chief, at a press conference on Tuesday morning. Among the states that join the costume are New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Delaware.
“My office will include imminent legal action against the unconstitutional break of this administration on federal funding”, the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, written social networks Tuesday. “We will not remain strewn while this administration harms our families.”
The order of frost, a two -page memo By Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the management and budget office, orders federal agencies to “take a break temporarily all activities related to the obligation or disbursement of all federal financial aid”, citing specifically “Dei, Woke Gender Edology and the Green New Agreement.” The sense of the directive was not clear and plunged state agencies, city governments and non -profit organizations in confusion.
The trial opens another front in what will be a long legal struggle led by the States led by Democrats and progressive activists to arrest President Trump’s aggressive program in the second term of the Federal President. Trump’s efforts to do so easier to shoot Federal employees, accelerate deportations and reverse the guarantee of the 14th amendment to the citizenship of the right of birth, are all already confronted with judicial disputes.
From 1974, a federal law Adopted to curb what the congress considered to be abuse of power by Richard Mr. Nixon demanded that the executive power spends the money allocated by the congress and signed by the president. Democrats argue that the money approved by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. through the infrastructure law, the credits of the routine congress and other measures cannot be summarily blocked without act of congress. To do this, they say they are an unconstitutional usurpation of the power of the handbag of the legislative branch
The Office Budget Budget Service Note said “assistance received directly by individuals” as well as health insurance and social security services would not be affected by the break. But it is not clear if this sculpture would include Medicaid, a program funded by the federal government where money flows first to the States, then care is provided to low -income residents.
For example, New York State is expected to receive around $ 90 billion in federal funding this year, according to the state budget office. Of this, around 60 billion dollars are said to be addressed to Medicaid, which provides approximately seven million New Yorkers. The state budget office also expects to receive around $ 4.7 billion in education funding and nearly $ 3 billion for transport infrastructure investments. All this money could now be vulnerable.
“In the event of a substantial financing for the funding of Medicaid, millions of people that many have voted for President Trump would lose health insurance,” said Nathan Gusdorf, director of the Policy Institute, a non -profit research organization in New York.
Tuesday morning, state representatives and organizations who receive federal funding tackled on the scale and consequences of this note. Many had learned the freeze the day before, when the service note was published on social networks.
“This ordinance is a potential fire with five alarms for non -profit organizations and the people and the communities they serve,” said Diane Yentel, director general of the National Council for non -profit organizations, in a press release.
Chris Cameron contributed to this report.