Environmental representatives warned that the order could have immediate and bad consequences for Americans if they come into force.
“From the White House, this is the ruthless pen,” said Manish Bapna, President of the Defense Council for Natural Resources. “It is a cold home in winter on the floor. It is a child who gets hungry at school. It is a family that cannot pay for the rent. There are higher supply costs for households with low income in every state. “
The list of programs includes dozens of the entire Ministry of Homeland Protection, which includes the Federal Administration Agency of Bundeskunting. Samantha Montano, an assistant professor for emergency management at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, said the break to support could help the agency’s programs, which help the state and local governments to prepare for disasters and to recover from disasters.
“I think it is fair to say that the break of all federal grants would have a terrible impact on the US emergency management system,” she said. “It would be less to prepare for disasters that take place in the future and make it even more difficult for disaster survivors who are trying to rebuild their lives.”
These offices not only focus on weather -related disasters, said Montano.
“We also talk about security scholarships, terrorism, cyber security,” she added. “This is the complete national security that is at risk if you take these grants away.”
Against a federal system, state authorities and non-profit organizations have already been excluded from a federal system in order to gain access to scholarships, said Maria Lopez-Nuñez, co-founder of agency, an advisory company of Environmental Justice. She listed a wide range of programs that may have been affected by a grant in North Carolina to help rural communities, access to wastewater canals and clean water for the state government programs for laying water pipes.
For many smaller non -profit organizations, a delay in access to federal scholarships could not be able to make salary statements or complete their programs.
“They freeze the key, the necessary warranty financing that many states need for important services,” said Lopez-Nuñez, member of the Weißen Haus boarding council, during the bid administration.
In North Carolina, where the municipalities are still recovering from Hurricane Helene, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry for Environmental Quality or DEQ said a significant part of the DEQ operating budget and billions of dollars for the municipalities in North Carolina. “
In the instructions to agencies, more than 400 programs were listed by emergency food for supporting farmers and water-saving initiatives within the framework of the US Agriculture Ministry. Also listed is one of the largest, most popular and effective initiatives in the department, the Processing Reserve Program.
Many legal experts said they were skeptical about the legality of the suspension of funds. While some said the presidents Can hold back temporarily Under certain circumstances, others have announced the actions directed by the memo, which clearly violate the constitutional limits.
“The law is clear: Congress controls the federal expenditure and no measures for executive can avoid this authority,” said Jillian Blanchard, director of climate change and environmental justice in lawyers for a good government. “This arrangement not only violates the constitution, but also threatens critical programs and communities that rely on this financing, which will affect hundreds of jobs in the whole country.”
The order comes when some science, environmental and energy programs have already started their work. On Monday, NPR reported that the National Science Foundation had canceled its Grant Review panels for this week. Several news organizations have reported that the Ministry of Energy has suspended billions of dollars of loans, grants and other editions.
Inside Climate News Reporters Georgina Gustin and Lisa Sorg contributed to this article.
