The non-governmental organizations that the Biden and Obama administrations—as well as foreign governments—frequently used to circumvent U.S. laws on transparency, financing restrictions and even constitutional prohibitions on government overreach are having a panic attack after Presidnet Donald Trump on Monday announced a freeze on all federal loans and grants.
Nonprofits of all sizes are now grappling with how these changes will impact their missions—with some even stepping in to replace a very small part of the funding the U.S. government is withholding.
“The pause on federal funding is creating a tremendous amount of confusion, and we don’t have clarity about what happens from here,” said Fatimah Loren Dreier, executive director of the HAVI, an anti-gun activist group masquerading as a public health organization.
“And that confusion has ripple effects on communities that are particularly vulnerable to shifts,” she complained.
Although President Joe Biden’s reliance on such groups to misuse government funding for partisan activism may have violated the norms—if not federal law—such groups are reacting with shock that Republican leadership might dare to revoke the taxpayer-subsidized free-for-all. […]
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