“States and local governments scrambled Tuesday to assess the impact of a broad and far-reaching order by the White House to pause hundreds of billions in federal grants, loans and other financial assistance-programs, pending a review by the Trump administration,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The memo, issued to agencies by the White House Office of Management and Budget late Monday, sowed widespread confusion, prompting government officials, lawmakers, nonprofits and others to parse through the two-page document—down to the footnotes—to try to understand which programs would be halted.”
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