The order targets the funding for Voice of America, which has been in the Trump administration’s crosshairs in recent weeks.

The order will affect:

  • the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • the United States Agency for Global Media
  • the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution
  • the Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
  • the Minority Business Development Agency.

It instructs the head of each agency to submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget “explaining which components or functions of the governmental entity, if any, are statutorily required and to what extent.” In practice, as has happened with other federal agencies in recent weeks, it’s expected to leave these agencies a shell of themselves and fundamentally nonexistent; in the case of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness, it destroys the only federal agency solely focused on addressing the homelessness crisis.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    11 days ago

    I’m just waiting for the project my company was contracted for to get cut. It’s only a matter of time at this point. It has to do with preservation of the ecosystem along the Colorado River which is right up their alley when it comes to cuts. My Republican boss is gonna be pissed when we lose 60% of our revenue for the year.

    • pelespiritOPMEnglish
      111·
      11 days ago

      The amount of harm he’s doing is astronomical. I’m in shock that the millionaires don’t get that he’s not on their side. He will drop them as soon as they’re not needed. I know they think they’re special, they are not.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        They don’t care. They’ve made their money and know that wherever the economy winds up blowing, they can pick up and move to Europe or SE Asia or NZ or wherever, because their large cushion of money will allow them a fairly soft landing.

        • pelespiritOPMEnglish
          3·
          10 days ago

          Not before trump steals their money first. You only have to take a gander at russia to see what the next steps are going to be. Either get on your knees to trump and do exactly what he says or find yourself at Guantanamo. You might fall out of window as an option, but I think trump would probably ruin you in other ways first. If Putin has a say, then poison or window it is.