A memo from the White House budget office is calling for a spending freeze on federal assistance, which could affect everything from aid to non-profits, universities, small business loans and state and local government grants. teleSUR
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00:00In the United States, the U.S. government ordered Monday all federal agencies to indefinitely block
00:05grants and loans so that they only keep providing assistance abroad to Israel and Egypt,
00:10while they can just give domestic funds to Social Security and Medicare. Among those
00:15countries affected by the lack of funds are Ukraine, Sudan, and Gaza. In Latin America,
00:20the $630 million that the Biden administration committed to allocating in Peru is already
00:27suspended. Furthermore, all nations counting on the assistance from the Agency for International
00:31Development, USAID, will be hit as well as their workers. Meanwhile, as of Tuesday at 5 p.m. local
00:38time, the disbursement of grants and loans at the national level will be called off except
00:42for Social Security and Medicare. The memorandum assured that the measure seeks to eradicate
00:47Marxist equity, transsexuality, and the policies of the New Green Agreement.