In Reply to: Hey, Wednesday! What's happening? * posted by mh on September 16, 2026 at 09:27:11
The federal government paid employees nearly $10 billion not to work last year under cuts led by President Donald Trump’s infamous Department of Government Efficiency, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
[I'll do nothing for money. Sign me up.]
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[Meanwhile, they stopped spendding money on things that actually help us. Who need health, nutrition, clean water, or disaster relief.]
The Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term, according to a tracking tool released Wednesday by a pro-democracy nonprofit and a group of researchers and scientists.
The cuts affected all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with health, nutrition, the environment and disaster relief making up the largest share of cuts, the States United Democracy Center and Grant Witness organization found.
Among the grants that were eliminated, frozen or delayed were ones related to maternal health in Michigan, education research in Mississippi and assistance to minority farmers in Iowa, the researchers found. California, Texas, New York, Illinois and North Carolina saw the highest amounts of interrupted grant money. The tracking tool is called Lost Funds.