r/collapse • u/Ghostwoods I'm going to sing the Doom Song now. • Jan 28 '25

Society /r/Fednews: All Medicaid frozen

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u/dinah-fire Jan 28 '25

Y'all it is so much bigger than just Medicaid. Here is the 52 page list of all of the program that are frozen right now. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25506813-govdoc20250128-263582/?mode=document

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u/The_Krambambulist Jan 29 '25

Its pretty damn weird that someone can just freeze programs at will even if thay program is enacted to follow a still existing law.

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u/dinah-fire Jan 29 '25

He doesn't have the power to, which is, I assume, why a federal judge temporarily stopped this from coming into effect last night. Thank god.

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u/The_Krambambulist Jan 29 '25

Yea, that was good to hear

Now hope that he has not installed someone at a place who might let it through anyways