US President Donald Trump The administration freezed funding for a wide range of federal programs, in a move that experts say can disrupt education, health care, reduce poverty and relieve disasters.

The officials said that the decision, which is scheduled to enter into force at 5 pm EST (22:00 GMT) on Tuesday, was necessary to ensure the compliance of all financing in Trump’s priorities, including campaign On diversity, fairness and integration initiatives (Dei).

The administration and budget office, which supervises the federal budget, said in a memorandum that the freezing included any money for “external aid” and “NGOs”, among other categories.

The White House said that the temporary suspension will not affect social security and medical care payments, nor “direct assistance provided to individuals.”

This means that some of the poor food aid programs will not be affected.

But freezing financing can affect trillion dollars, at least temporarily, and causes a possible interruption in health care research, education programs and other initiatives. Even the grants granted but not spent are supposed to stop.

Indeed, on Tuesday, the state agencies and early education centers seemed to fight to reach money from Medicaid-a low-income health care program-and a plan, a plan that provides support in early childhood support.

Four groups representing non -profit and professional institutions in public health and small companies filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging Trump’s guidance, saying that they “will have a devastating impact on hundreds of thousands of grants from grants.”

“From research on childhood cancer treatments to stop nutritional assistance, safety from domestic violence, and closing the hot lines of suicide, the short stopping effect on financing can be devastating and costly life.” The National Council for non -profit organizations said, in a statement.

Its collection was among the four groups participating in a lawsuit on Tuesday.

The Prosecutor of the Democratic State also pledged to combat the matter in court.

This includes the Prosecutor in New York Lettia James, who said she intends to ask the Manhattan Federal Court to prevent the movements of the Republican President.

“My office will take an imminent legal action against the unconstitutionality of this administration on federal financing,” James, James He said on social media. “We will not sit while this administration hurts our families.”

Makewell Alejandro Frost, a member of the Democratic Congress of Florida, said on social media as well. mail On Tuesday afternoon, his team was on the phone with many agencies and organizations that were “completely cut off from federal money.”

“We are talking about housing, homeless services, and public safety,” he wrote, warning that freezing “could have radical local monuments.”

We were on the phone with multiple/Orgs agencies. They were completely cut off from federal funds. We are talking about housing, homeless services, public safety, etc.

I call a press conference today to explain how this can have radical local effects on our voters.

– Maxwefrostfl January 28, 2025

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said that the Trump administration does not have the power to prevent spending approved by the US Congress.

“This decision is illegal, destructive, cruel,” Schumer said in a letter to the Senate. “They are American families who will suffer more.”

The United States constitution gives Congress to spend things, but Trump said during his campaign he believes that the president has the ability to block money from the programs he hates.

Congress member Tom Amir, a senior Republican in the House of Representatives, said that Trump is simply following his promises to his campaign.

“You have to understand that he was elected to shake the status quo. This is what he will do. Emear told reporters in a Republican political decline in Miami:” The work will not be as usual. “

White House spokeswoman Caroline Levit also defended the administration’s decision, and informed reporters on Tuesday afternoon that Trump and his team were “behaving” from the good referees of the taxpayer dollar.

“This does not stop the blanket on federal assistance and granting programs from the Trump administration. Individual assistance that includes … the benefits of social security, the benefits of medical care, food stamps, the benefits of social welfare, and the help that go directly to individuals.”

Levitte said that the freezing “does not mean more funding for the illegal Dei programs” or for “The Green New Scam”, and he used the term Trump and its allies to describe the measures taken by former President Joe Biden to address the climate crisis.

She said: “This means that there is no more funding for sexual transformation and preparation through bureaucracy and federal agencies.”

The management and budget office is the latest directive in the Trump batch to significantly reshape the federal government, and it is the largest employer in the country, since He took office on January 20.

Trump has taken dozens of executive measures since the beginning of his second term, including the closure of Dei programs and the imposition of a federal employment.

Last week, the president also signed an executive matter directing all federal government agencies to the age Stop for 90 days On external assistance and current program review.

Days later, the US State Department said in a note that it is suspending all the new funding for foreign aid programs almost with exceptions to the best Middle East allies in the country, Israel and Egypt.

As part of this aid suspension, the administration has moved to stop the distribution of drugs for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as medical supplies for newborns, in countries supported by the United States Agency for International Development (the US National Development Agency for Development Agency).

The United States is the largest aid donor in the world, spending $ 72 billion in 2023.