To ensure government-wide compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive orders, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget directed all federal agencies in a Jan. 27 memo to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.”
Although a Biden judge quickly blocked Trump’s plan to pause federal funding, certain organizations’ access to funding was nevertheless impacted.
Federally qualified health centers were reportedly among the organizations affected by the attempted freeze.
Key supporters and administrators of the health centers, of which there are roughly 1,400 nationwide operating over 15,000 service sites, bemoaned the temporary loss of access to taxpayer funds through a granting program administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Service Administration — access a HRSA spokesman told Blaze News was the result of technical issues that have been resolved.
