This pauses disbursement of all federal loans and prohibits new scientific grant funding indefinitely. As written, this appears to apply to student loans, as those are disbursed via universities–not directly from the Dept of Education. It explicitly requires cancellation of awarded scientific grant funding that is in conflict with the current administration.
This includes WIC. For those who don’t know, it is a program that provides food for mothers and infants in impoverished families.
The “poor babies” crowd is about to kill a whole lot of babies. Very pro-life.
The linked memo states
I don’t know what this means. Nobody knows what this means. I work in a federal agency. The instructions coming down are vague and even self-conflicting but threaten severe consequences if not exactly followed.
Same with everything else. Like no one actually knows how to follow the new RTO mandate, or what it even means in relation to existing contracts, etc.