by Tadpole9181 on 1/28/2025, 5:23:46 AM
by quantified on 1/28/2025, 5:51:38 AM
And will Congresspeople point out that they legislated the funds to go where the laws they passed dictate?
by basementcat on 1/28/2025, 7:38:08 AM
Does this mean SBA loan origination in recent hurricane and wildfire areas is suspended?
Not a good time to be a federally funded research and development corporation (NASA JPL, Fermi National Accelerator, Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, NCAR, Oak Ridge, SLAC, etc)
I can't wait to be told this is entirely political and a halt on $3 trillion of grants, many of which go to university research programs and (open source) nonprofits isn't "technical news" and won't prompt "valuable discussion". I'm sure a sudden double digit plummet in the entire spending of the US government won't have any affect on our lives or careers.
And that's not even getting into that this is, by an ocean, the largest case of illegal executive impounding this nation has ever seen, with downright insane, Orwellian language used as justification and very little actual clarification as to what it actually means. For instance, are Pell grants included? They're for individuals but dispersed by universities. Medicare is safeguarded, but Medicaid?
Just fantastic. Slide and slide.