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US federal agencies are scheduled to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars from grants and local federal loans on Tuesday in the last aggressive step of President Donald Trump to reform.

It can endanger in federal financial assistance – which is scheduled to enter at 5 pm local time in Washington – can expose a wide range of funding at risk, from scientific and medical research to small business loans, food assistance and early childhood education.

The White House will collide with societies throughout the country that depends greatly on government support and the operation of violent reactions from Democrats.

The opposition lawmakers criticized it as an illegal seizure of power Trump This challenged the constitutional role of the legislators to agree to spending and warned that it is likely to harm the American economy.

“The freezing of federal financing that has already been allocated by Congress is unconstitutional.” Dick Dorbin, the democratic Senator from Illinois, said: “Above all, he is inhuman.”

Two senior Democrats, Patti Murray and Rosa Deloro, wrote to Matthew Feith, Acting Director of the Budget Management Office, saying: “The scope of what you require is to breathe, and unprecedented, and will have devastating consequences throughout the country.”

Trump’s step was announced in A. note Written by Vaeth on Monday, which represents the latest in a series of executive measures from the president to compel civil service and government agencies in line with his policies.

It comes after Trump ordered a new cessation of clean energy projects. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also started to implement a temporary cessation of almost all foreign aid pending a review of whether it is committing to Trump administration plans.

The Vaeth note indicated to the Conservative Hot button issues, saying: “The use of federal resources to pay Marxist property, sexual transformation, and new green social engineering policies, which is a waste of taxpayers that do not improve daily life from those we serve.”

The Trump administration requested the agencies to provide information about granting them and loans to the White House by February 10, which means that many programs will be forgotten until then at least. The administration said that the United States spent 3 meters in the fiscal year 2024 on federal financial assistance, but it is not clear how much it will be reduced.

Although it does not cover government pension programs or health care for the elderly, it represents Trump’s most daring attempt to reduce local federal spending, and focuses exclusively on the priorities defended by ideological conservatives.

On Tuesday, Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters that it did not rise to a “comprehensive stop” and described it as a “temporary” procedure to relax on financing for Trump’s programs against her, such as those supported by diversity and inclusion.

The Administration also told the legislators that programs such as Medicaid, the health insurance scheme for low -income Americans, and Snap, a dietary assistance program, will not be stopped, according to a second memorandum that the Times sees. The memo added that the money will not be frozen for other important plans, such as those that support small companies, farmers and university students.

Russell Virus has always been a fundamental renewal of the federal government, and Trump’s choice to be the head of the White House budget, and project authors 2025, a plan for the upcoming republican administration that has gathered in recent years by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinking -a tank.

Trump distanced himself from the 2025 project during the election campaign against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris last year, because many of his recipes were very controversial, but some of its policies appear in his first executive work.

Trump cost Eileon Musk, technological billionaire, while reducing government spending as part of the newly created “Ministry of Governmental efficiency” to clarify waste, fraud and ill -treatment in federal operations, but this week’s step goes beyond this effort.

Sawyer Hackett, a democratic strategic expert, said his party needs to put a mark after the executive orders raid from the Trump administration during the past week and take a position over the freezing of financing.

He said: “Democrats in the Senate need to say,” There will be no zero democratic voice to consider or confirm any of Trump’s candidates in order to reversed the reckless freezing of funding. “It is not clear access. We have influence. Use it. “

Jeff Merkeley, a democratic prominent on the Senate Budget Committee, pledged to delay a session to confirm “until we answer these questions and solve this constitutional crisis.”