The acting head of the Office of Management and Budget, OMB, issued an agency memo ordering a pause to federal aid, including grants and loans, but exempting Medicaid and Social Security benefits. According to the leaked memo, the pause includes “financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.” Senator Patty Murray and Congressmember Rosa DeLauro, top Democratic members of their respective Appropriations Committees, said in a letter to the OMB, “The scope of what you are ordering is breathtaking, unprecedented, and will have devastating consequences across the country.”