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Trump Couldn’t Believe That Not Enough Black People Are DEI; So He Pulled A Presidential Impoundment Of Funds
The Trump White House is in complete damage control mode right now after a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s executive order pausing all federal assistance funding and freezing the disbursement of all federal grants totaling approximately $3 trillion — according to his memo — to allow time for his administration to conduct an across-the-board ideological review to uproot ‘progressive initiatives’.
To backtrack a little and add even more chaos and confusion to the whole situation, the White House then released a new order saying that programs like Medicaid won’t be affected, even though Medicaid payment systems were no longer operable in all 50 states for some time.
There are still a ton of federal programs that will be affected by his directive such as programs for veterans, homeless veterans, food safety, and many, many more.
This incredibly unbelievable and wild lack of planning and insight by Trump can only be attributed to one thing; He didn’t know exactly where Black people work, and he also didn’t know just how many white people benefit from…
